Behind the Scenes

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.

Comments

Re:Typical Slashdot Posting

[Anonymous Coward]

(Score: 1 Longest manually typed second post ever!)

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Hey Michael

[Anonymous Coward]

Read this new bitchslap message:
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Re:Special Effects

[Unknown Bovine Group]

Flamebait? Oh come on! Just because the AC's replying are flamebait doesn't make the original post flamebait.... now if there was an Unfunny (Score: -1) I might be in trouble....

Like there's some crew of people out there defending Hollywoods dungpile defilement of a once-great TSR tradition.

I have much higher hopes for LOTR, BTW.

Re:Special Effects [OT]

[Tim C]

If it's any consolation, I would've voted you up +1, Funny (or perhaps +1, Yeah That Film Sucked Didn't It? if there was such an option) if only I had mod points...

Cheers,

Tim

Burning Karma because I can

Imagine a movie of

[Anonymous Coward]

Katie. How much would it cost to make a movie of yourself and katie?

Re:Special Effects [OT]

[Anonymous Coward]

How the hell can that be offtopic?? (Oh yeah, it had [OT] in the subject) But still!

$pecial effects

[Anonymous Coward]

We're not big on wizardish gadgetry (yet), but we've saved some countable dough behind our scenes using penguin powered web servers, etc....

Moreover, we'll be giving away this distinguished/recognizable web address, to one(s) of you who are shrewd enough to follow some simple directions.

We've heard rumour this a.m., that fud is NOT dead? Hard to believe, having seen these face scans of those felonious greed/fear mongers from the KingDumb. Whatever.

Re:LOTR category!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

I agree, it deserves a category of it's own. Then I won't have to read about it.

Re:You know something ladies...

[Anonymous Coward]

Ha,ha!

You knew where the reference was, you faggot. Now who's gay? You aka Goldust

Re:slashdotted already?

[Anonymous Coward]

No mirrors for you. Your ugly face would shatter them into lots of tiny pieces.

I'm so sad

[Anonymous Coward]

I've been off Prozac for four weeks now.

I can't hack this life anymore!

Re:Hey Michael

[Anonymous Coward]

I would.

Osama bin Laden would fuck it too.

-Yasser Arafat

Rad insects!

[Anonymous Coward]

Shit.

Emigrating to New Zealand doesn't sounds like a good idea anymore...

Re:No Balrog in book 1

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought it was "Do Balrogs dream of electric sheep?"

Where to read about Linux in the "Industry"

[MrR0p3r]

An article posted on millimeter.com last month detailed how a bunch of companies are jumping on the Linux bandwagon and showcased their stuff at SIGGRAPH this year. Read all about it!