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Lord of the Terabytes

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the rendering-middle-earth dept.

Dracos writes "TheOneRing.net has an article from OnLine (a New Zealand film mag), in which Jon LaBrie, CTO of WETA Digital, discusses the hardware and software WETA is using to produce the sfx in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy."

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  1. Should We Be Excited? by danmil · · Score: 5
    Am I the only person who finds themselves wildly swinging back and forth between sort of fevered anticpation of this series and totally cynical distrust? I keep on having conversations with myself along the lines of "This could be so cool!... It it doesn't totally suck".

    Plus side: Peter Jackson is pretty cool. Dead Alive is an incredibly funny, incredibly gross movie. Heavenly Creatures was good. Some of the casting sounds good. The One Ring preview was good.

    Minus Side: Is it even conceivable that they won't fsck it up? I mean, how can it compare with the depth, the atmosphere, the brilliance of what is unquestionably the greatest fantasy series of all time?

    Anyone else?

    -Dan

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