3. The dragon's mouth was a different kind of challenge. When Andy Serkis did motion-capture to play Gollum in the first Hobbit movie, it was for a character with a humanoid face. With Smaug and ...

The dragon, played in motion capture by Benedict Cumberbatch, appears right at the end of the trailer, turning its head toward a cowering Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman).

To create the dragon in "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," having Benedict "in a mocap suit … seemed to help get him immersed and home in on the character." ...

The head, its creators say, is 75 percent to scale with the would-be size of the actual dragon, and it is based off of the same 3D files used to create Smaug in The Hobbit movies.

“The Hobbit” dragon Smaug peeked his gigantic head into “The Colbert Report” studio Thursday to talk fiscal conservatism and blast Hollywood’s “liberal conservative bias.” Oh, he was ...

Instead, he focused on the scale of the scaly beast. “The very simple thing I had in my head was to make him a hell of a lot bigger than what people would be imagining,” Jackson says.

In order to bring Smaug to life, Jackson turned to longtime collaborators Weta Digital and a team that includes four-time Oscar winner Joe Letteri, the senior visual effects supervisor for Weta ...

Hot on the heels of last night's new character posters for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, a final theatrical one sheet has emerged. The new poster features all seven of the characters who ...

In a career first, dear readers, I bring you an interview from a toilet. “Oh, hello,” I said, rather uncomfortably, to the man emerging from the cubicle. “Oh … Hi.” replied Benedict ...

Ancalagon the Black—the world’s largest dragon. Smaug, known as Smaug the Magnificent, is one of the last great dragons of Middle-earth and the primary antagonist in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The ...

The hit HBO show has three dragons on its roster. No offense to Viserion and Rhaegal, but there is clearly a HDIC, or head dragon in charge, in Daenerys Targaryen's (Emilia Clarke) brood, and that ...

He's the biggest star of the movie so there was a lot that went into creating Smaug, the dragon the size of a 747 that rules over Erebor with greedy malevolence in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.