Weta Digital's visual effects artists create digital characters and environments for the first film in Peter Jackson's second trilogy series based on the works of author J.R.R. Tolkien. Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy won an astonishing 17 Oscars and received 40 Oscar nominations. All three films won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects. The third film in the series even won the Oscar in all eleven categories for which it was nominated, including Best Picture and Best Director. Now, eight years later, Jackson and many of the others who created those three films came together again to give the world "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey". Sets and props were again built at Weta Workshop and the digital effects were produced at Weta Digital. As with "The Lord of the Rings", Jackson is stretching the story of Bilbo Baggins over three films. In "An Unexpected Journey", the wizard Gandalf the Grey pays a surprise visit to the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and convinces him to join a group of 13 ...
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