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When visual effects supervisor Jim Rygiel heard that The Fellowship of the Ring, the first film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, had won the 2001 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, he didn't spend much time celebrating.
That's because he and the artists at Weta, the Wellington, New Zealand-based production, post-production, and visual-effects facility that created the award-winning effects, were already busy working on the second film. "We knew the effects in film two had to be bigger and better than those in film one, and we had only a year to create them," he says. "So the pressure was on to raise the bar."
And raise the bar they did. The Two ...