Watch: 'Twilight Saga: New Moon' Wolf Pack explained, revealed in video

Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, director Chris Weitz dig into the werewolf characters, special effects

By Katie Hasty Friday, Oct 30, 2009 12:37 PM

It's not easy making a man into a werewolf, but the creators of "Twilight Saga: New Moon" are willing to reveal just how it's done.

Taylor Lautner gets his time on wire lift as his character Jacob defends his love Bella (Kristine Stewart) from the hot tempers of the Wolf Pack. The tech team behind the film show how the animation and 3-D effects are thrown together to create a growling wolf face, and speak on the importance of the eyes of the beast.

We also get a glimpse of a wolf attack -- perhaps on a certain dreadlocked someone? -- plus insight from the other Wolf Pack actors, what the group stands for and

And more than ever before do we contemplate just how cold it could be wandering about around shirtless in a Portland winter, chest shaved and flying through the air.

Check out this scene preview, with the complete Bella-Wolf-Pack-confrontation and Jacob's transformation.

"New Moon" hits theaters on Nov. 20.

Katie Hasty
Managing Editor

After five years as a columnist and editor at Billboard, Katie Hasty joined HitFix in 2009 for music and film reporting out of New York. The Midwest native has worked as a writer, music promoter and in A&R since 1999 and performs with her band Numbers And Letters.