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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. GNU/Lord of the Rings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hollywood will get their fingers burned when RMS declares a jihad against ILM and demands all Linux weenies should not have to pay to get into the movie theater.

  2. Re:Special Effects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is lotr idiot. Not frickin d&d.

  3. Re:Special Effects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    And it will probably be even less interesting than D&D was. Lord of the Rings is an awful book. What exactly is the obsession around here with hippies as role models?

  4. This movie is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...going to suck big time. Look at the cast line up. I rest my case.

  5. Re:suck my dick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ACs rule. Fuck you logged-in shitbags. Don't hide behind an account trying to sound all cool. Post anonymously and show some balls.

    Dick

    in your eye.

    Thank you.

  6. 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.....