From Len Lye to Gollum - New Zealand Animators

Presented by an animated pencil — but no less authoritative for it —  From Len Lye to Gollum traces the history of Kiwi animation from 1929 to the triumphs of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The interviews and animated footage cover every base, from early pioneers (Len Lye, Disney import John Ewing) to the possibilities opened up by computers (Weta Digital, Ian Taylor’s Animation Research). Along the way Euan Frizzell remembers the dog he found hardest to animate, and the famous blue pencil; and Andrew Adamson speculates on how ignorance helped keep Shrek fresh.