PR Web summarizes the lecture Jim Rygiel gave to students of the Academy of Art University on October 26, 2006. Rygiel, the Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, spoke of the “technical and artistic challenges” present in combining real objects with digital creations. The president and CEO of Stormfront Studios, Inc., Don Daglow, was also on hand, as his company produced the Lord of the Rings video games. Daglow stressed the synergy between a blockbuster and its video game.