Richard Taylor, visual-effects supervisor of the upcoming fantasy film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, told SCI FI Wire that the weapons and miniatures built by his New Zealand-based Weta Workshop for the film were more detailed and elaborate than any they've ever done before.

"We had two and a half months to deliver two and a half thousand weapons," Taylor said in an interview on the set in Prague last May.

Although the weapons for the first Narnia film, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, were created by hand, the sheer scale of the project this time called for a more automated approach.

"We've pushed ourselves further than we ever have before with our weaponry," Taylor said. "For Miraz's weapons, we actually used 3-D modeling technology, then printed them in wax and used [a few different] casting processes to actually manufacture the ornateness of the weapon. We just didn't have the skills to do that incredibly delicate filigree in any other way." [More]