cinemaman on Instagram: "ought forced perspective back from Old Hollywood’s toolkit. To make Will Ferrell’s Buddy look giant among the North Pole elves, director Jon Favreau rejected CGI and green screens. Instead, he used the same technique Peter Jackson would later perfect in Lord of the Rings. They built oversized sets in the foreground and normal-sized sets in the background, carefully positioning actors at different depths to create the illusion of size difference. Ferrell stood closer to t