Report from the set

Eric Vespe, aka Quint from aintitcoolnews, is reporting live from the set of THE HOBBIT. Here’s a peek at his first dispatch, followed by a link to the full piece, with more photos.

Gorgeous, isn’t it? As amazing as it looks in those pictures or in the movies there’s something incredibly surreal and humbling to stand ON TOP of Bag End and overlook The Shire. I love (good) CGI, I have a lot of respect for the digital artists that toil away for hours and days and weeks and months in a dark room so we can go to Ancient Greece or Pandora or spend some time with Jurassic Park dinosaurs or Gollum or Caesar or those fookin’ prawns, but if there was ever a shred of doubt that real wins it was obliterated as the sheep bayed, horses neighed, wind blew and smoke started pouring out of hobbit hole chimneys dotting the lush green landscape in the valley below me.

Follow this link to read the rest of “An Unexpected Journey: Quint on the set of The Hobbit! Part 1-Concerning Hobbiton” at aintitcool.com.