Check Out Benedict Cumberbatch's "Smaug Face"
2013.10.23
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These behind-the-scenes photos of Cumberbatch were posted on Flickr by user Tolkienerd. Those dots on Cumberbatch's face are necessary for doing motion-capture for the actor's upcoming role as the fearsome 'Smaug' dragon in the Hobbit sequel (which will be out December 2013).
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In an interview with Wall Street Journal, Cumberbatch talked about how Peter Jackson asked him to play Smaug using full mo-cap:
He wasn’t that in need of it but he said, ‘do you want to do it?’ I said, ‘Absolutely, I do. That’s the great appeal, trying to bring this. He said, ‘But’. I went, ‘I know what you’re going to say: I’m a biped mammal, I’m not a serpent with tiny claws or legs. I don’t have a tail, I can’t breathe fire or fly, and the rest of the things that aren’t dragonlike about me. But I do think in my imagination I’ve got something which might at least push the WETA animation into a direction.’ He went, ‘Come down and play.’ So that was an amazing thing, I’d never been so free. You feel like a tit when you walk onto the stage and there are dots all over your face and your body, but the motion-capture volumes pick up every motion and turn it into an avatar. A beautiful full circle.
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