2. Smaug shows his age. After Letteri's crew figured out his personality, they moved on to his body, which is covered in dead skin and scars to show how old he is. In doing that, though ...

Last year, I based Smaug’s length (64 feet) on an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons website, then loped off 70% as being tail (the proportion of tail to body for a Komodo Dragon). Apparently this ...

“Smaug needed a formidable presence, so we worked hard to craft impressive poses for his massive body, wings and tail. He also covered a full range of moods — from supreme arrogance to ...

Smaug's lifeless body was just the right size to obliterate the town of Esgaroth, so he wasn't exactly a small beast. But he was small enough to fit under the Lonely Mountain atop his horde of ...

The video reveals some impressive stats, including how Smaug's photo-real reptilian body is adorned with over one million unique scales, each of which had to be hand designed. Also, Smaug is the ...

“[Smaug’s] crocodile-shaped snout and lack of humanoid mouth-shapes were an interesting challenge for animators who used reference footage of Benedict’s full body movements as he delivered ...

The Desolation of Smaug. The actor put his full body into the villainous dragon, lending his talents to the motion-capture process in as wonderfully ridiculous form as would be expected.

This is a bit of an odd debut for Smaug’s full body, but the whole dragon enchilada finally makes an appearance in the form of a wrap on an Air New Zealand plane. It’s not an ideal way to see ...

The model, called “Smaug-72B,” was released publicly today by the startup Abacus AI, which helps enterprises solve difficult problems in the artificial intelligence and machine learning space.

Smaug is portrayed with spine-chilling effect ... to the role -- he suited up in motion capture gear, both on his body and his face, to help craft movements and believable physical behaviors ...