Lord of the Rings

Turns out, dinosaurs led to the creation of Gollum in Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings'. Gollum was one of the characters created by Joe Letteri, a four-time Oscar winner, Weta Digital's senior VFX supervisor and 2018's recipient of the Visual Effects Society's Georges Melies Award. According to the Hollywood Reporter, 60-year-old Letteri, who had worked as a CG artist on 1993's 'Jurassic Park', explained, "I became interested in what made something like a dinosaur look realistic ' some of that was the detail that you see in the dinosaur skin. I also started learning about cinematography and lighting."