Seeing Andy get to do his Smaug impression at the ACTUAL same place, brought a single tear to my eye. lol!

Seeing this actually made me appreciate the hard work the people behind the scenes have to do to make these movies

'Welcome to the Desolation of Andy'

All the visual effects are made to serve the actors' performances. It's like make-up but put on afterwards so it doesn't restrict the actors' expressions allowing them to give the best performances they can. Hopefully the Academy can understand this and finally nominate Andy Serkis for an Oscar. Hope you guys make more of these videos, loving this channel. Screen Junkies News Emmys 2018 let's go! :P

You can tell andy is jet lagged... and yet he still did a great job, good on you andy

when he said "your arms are heave", who else went mom's spaghetti?

Congrats to screen junkies for getting this far. This is some legit interesting stuff.

I worked for this company and with Dan Barrett for 2 years, great place to work for! Go Weta!

that benedict scene 😂😂😂

I never knew how used I was to the opening music until now.

PUT. THIS. ON. MAIN. CHANNEL.

This is the kind of content that should be on the main screen junkies channel, this was funny and interesting. Compared to the sort of cringy minions memes video that came out a little bit ago this is the kind of thing you want as a first impression

6:47 when the drugs kick in

This is absolutely the best! Andy makes a good ape. Always love to get a peek behind the curtain of groundbreaking visual effects technology.

The benduct cucumbercrotch impersonation part cracked me up.

I got to see War last night. this is absolutely unreal, keep up this content SJ guys. Love the new direction with the news channel.

It was awesome meeting you guys at WETA! should definitely plan a collab soon!

This looked liked so much fun!! Lucky!!!

10:45 Now it has a whole new meaning

This was awesome. Put a smile on my face 😄 plus huge kudos to the team for what they have to do to bring us Ana amazing movie

This is why I'm a Screen Junkie! Cool stuff like this! Please keep behind the scenes and talking more with crew coming our way!

Richard Taylor and the team at WETA are amazing.

Andy = legend

This was fantastic, I look forward to more content like this.

thank you so much . this was really fun to watch!!

it's nice to see that SJ has gone a long way, i am a subscriber on the main channel for years,back when they only do honest trailers and SJ show. congrats

Andy absolutely nailed that Smaug scene!

One of the best SJNews videos I've seen

This deserves more views. This is great content and felt like a legit BTS video. Appreciate this as a film fan immensely.

Aaaahhh!!! Andyyyy! How cool was that? I'm so happy you got to do this, way to go Scree Junkies. 😁

That was amazing! I love seeing behind the scenes for Weta projects!

Wow, this is incredible, you guys. This is pretty good journalism. You have amazing b-roll shots to go with the interviews that provide useful info for the story you're trying to put together. This is pretty good journalism, I'm not gonna lie. I hope we, as an audience, can see more of this content. Great job! (:

I LOVED THIS!!!!!!!! So hilarious and informational

Love it! Super jealous! I love everything behind the scenes from WETA. These guys are seriously the best in the business at what they do

Great video guys! More things like this plz!

this was awesome, wish you guys could go out and do more like this.

this was awesome to see!

This video made my day !

The Andy Smaug thing made me laugh so hard

I love seeing this BTS stuff! hope you guys have the opportunity to do more

This is awesome!

i love this channel

this is so awesome

Hope you enjoyed your time in NZ Andy!

Love your videos

Don looks like the villain from Hancock lol

This was a fun video :D

Ooo I like the new SJ News logo/animation.

This looks so fun! I want to do it!

I wonder if Andy's obsession with that smaug video has been relieved.

this needs to be on the blu ray!

Maybe the coolest video screenjunkies has made yet

Thiswas fantastic and I really appreciated it, it is something you just don't get to experience with the comprtition, I really have no problem believing that these guys are real "screen junkies"

Hey, Andy was here!

awesome !

That must have been a blast - I visited Weta and loved the tour, but was always wanting to go outside the tour zone and around a corner to see more behind the scenes.

I wonder what all these people that met Andy Signore and invited to the set think of him now. Lmao

Andy's Smaug was pretty good

HAHAHA andy doing Smaug

"Oh that's so fun your like God"

THIS IS AWSOME!

It's a mad house! A mad house!

10:38 😂

Andy Serkis should be getting award buzz as Cesar but sadly he won't

its Kung Fu Panda, nah just Andy in mocap.

I hope you got to do a little bit of sight seeing while you were in NZ. Kinda bummed I couldn't stalk you for an autograph haha

Thank you for sending Andy and not Hal. lol

I like the new logo, very swish

Did they change the title?

much better smaug!

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

How much they paid for this? It must have been so expensive! And before you say they are promoting the movie, so it is for free, I believe it was only the interviews, because the whole mo cap part with cameras and everything, was definitely paid for.

I always did see Andy as an orangutan

10:06 Now he looks like Jack Black.

Guys, are you gonna visit Hobbiton and places where LOTR was filmed??

9:06 latest Movie Fight reference! :D

This is exactly why I think MoCap actors shouldn't get nominated for an Oscar. 4:00 Is why a lot of people don't think it's "all actors". I've heard it countless times. "It's all Andy Serkis. His performance is amazing". I agree. His a great actor. Human or not. But the end result is NOT all him. There's a bunch of animators and what not who can tweak his eyes, his eyebrows, the mouth, etc. And when it all adds up, it can look quite different than what he acted in the first place.

It’s funny because he got fired

Andy THICC!👅

Ravioli Ravioli don't check my search historioli

When you say, "theatres everywhere", do you mean on the moon, too?

mo cap is a great solution then make up but that depend on the situation. One of the many issues with the first planet of the ape reboot was that the make up was amazing but it was heavy and take so long to put together so it end up that the actors have to act while wearing a heavy suit which to majority of actor can not do well. Only a few actor and it so much work. With mo cap it provide a lot least physical stress to the actor.

Andy doesn't even need the mocap suit, he already looks like an ape. Just kidding of course. Great video!

WETA or ILM???

I love BTS shit, this is great stuff!

Andy is Harambe confirmed

Prevert alert.

In the future Even Human characters will be played using motion capture

see, I KNOW what I'm watching but imagine someone walking by seeing you watching bunch of dudes in a skintight suits. just saying.

Andy in spandex? Thanks for ruining my lunch. Lay off the cheeseburgers dude =P