When it comes to sound effects and dubbing, stories about dragons and desolate men at sea have the same problem: How to place audiences right there with the character. Brent Burge and Chris Ward, both ...

The user comes face to face with the dragon Smaug. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Epic Games and Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital are premiering a three-minute virtual reality experiment loosely based on ...

Let’s get this out of the way up front: I’m a huge fan of all things Tolkien, so there was no way I wasn’t going to enjoy Thief in the Shadows. It’s a virtual reality experience that Epic Games built ...

One of the more impressive aspects of director Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was the characterization of the titular dragon. Benedict Cumberbatch not only provided the voice for ...

Costume designer Marty LaConte stretches talents to make a 26-foot-long Smaug dragon for the Ohio Shakespeare Festival's ...