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Behind the Scenes

Posted by michael on from the these-are-the-penguins-you-are-looking-for dept.

JosefK writes: "Film & Video is running an interesting and fairly in-depth article on the technology that's been used by Peter Jackson's crew and WETA for the production of the Lord of the Rings. From satellite video feeds for overseeing remote shoots, to the development of WETA's Massive program for depicting large scale battle scenes with tens and hundreds of thousands of "agents" (and it runs on Linux!), the article covers the gamut of the interesting things Peter Jackson's been doing Down Under." And Salon is running a lengthy article on the increasing use of Linux in the special effects industry.

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  1. 72 Terabytes of Data... by jhughes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    72 Terabytes of Data. Not bad.

    But they really should compare it to some people's MP3 collections.....