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Lurtz
The biggest baddest boy (OK, Orc) of the Fellowship of the Ring.
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Lurtz is a massive prosthetic that it took hours and hours to get the
actor in... but there is a bit of costume there. Given the dark
costume, sometimes it's hard to tell where the body stops and the costume
begins. It is strips of leather, plastics and metal.
Be warned, the amount of armor he wears does very.
- Lurtz: for your consideration - Oscar Add
- Makeup Artist magazine - side in battle and at birth
- Makeup Magazine, "gelatin", side
- Getting ready to fire
- Two shot with Orc after firing at Bo
- Preparing the kill shot - Bo kneeling in field of dead orc, Lurtz bow,
not yet raised
- Cry of pain
- Going into battle, cu
- growling at Aragorn (2 shot, over Aragorn's shoulder)
- Loosing one's head, 2 shot over Aragorn's shoulder, sword still
swinging.
- Preparing to shoot, close
- Lurtz chess set piece, front and back
- Lurtz toy with Gimli
- More pictures can be found:
Display Lurtz, loincloth
Display Lurtz, with armor
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All ready for the ultimate movie! |
Full length shot
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Menacing
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Side detail
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Full length shot
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Chest and shoulder detailing. Top
pieces look to be leather, bottom are metal |
Better shot of the lacing |
Chest from a lower angle |
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Belt buckle at waist. Same belt
buckle in smaller sizes are used for the rest of his outfits |
Iron cod piece! Or, studded leather
and iron. According to "making of" details, "goblin knickers" are
designer underwear attached to bits of leather. In this case,
besides the leather fig leaf, there's is a serious leather spade
attached from the waist. He must sit very carefully. (What? did
you expect, a serious description????) |
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Gauntlet, clasping sword. Heavily
lightened. |
Gauntlet, darker, towards natural colors |
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Full length shot
or <here> for high rez |
Closer show of the shoes and end of the
tunic |
CU on one shoe and the strapping.
Note, buckles are the same as the waist buckle, just smaller. |
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Close up of center back at waist.
Not lacing/sewing detailing |
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Full length shot
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See how armor plating fits at the waist |
CU of Lurtz holding onto the shield.
See how one strap is at high wrist, and then he holds a knob on the
shild. |
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Side view |
side view details |
Another gauntlet shot |
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These pictures are from one of the 3 Lurtz full sized figures that were
created by Weta Workshop. Daniel now owns this one and shares his
pictures with us. Here is an excerpt of the letter he received from
Richard Taylor.
"...To create your Lurtz was quite an affair. It took
about four to five months of pretty consistent work. Bill Hunt and Jamie
Beswarick sculptured it, Jason Docherty supervised the mold-making (done in
fiberglass and silicon), Jason Harvey skinned the creature and foamed the
interior. An armature was welded up and then Les Nairn and Gino Acevedo
painted in along with adding eyes and teeth. Mike Grealish made the costume,
which I finally assembled. ..."
All of Lurtz's costume is made entirely of leather except
for the shin guards, sword, shield, and naturally the buckles. The chest
pieces are constructed of very rigid leather, probably wet first and then
molded to give it an armored, metal appearance. I manufacture orthopedic
appliances and artificial limbs and have molded this type of leather before
over positive casts of the patients.
Then Weta techs used a Swede type leather around the shoulders and groin.
The artist spent a great deal of time airbrushing in the details to give it
the effects you see.
If you need more details of the Lurtz outfit, you can write
Daniel. If you make a Lurtz
using these pictures to assist you, please share them.
Full armor exhibit
As seen at the London Exhibit, 2003
Thank you to Torn for these pictures.
Full gallery here:
http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/group/987
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See how the collar comes up close around
the neck, hides the neck seams well |
Chest detail lightened |
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glove and wrist cover |
Side of glove and wrist cover |
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04/22/08
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