LOTR Special Effects at OSCON

gnat writes "The IT Director for Weta Digital, Peter Jackson's company doing the digital effects for the Lord of the Rings movies, is keynoting at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. They use a ton of Linux and Perl." FWIW I believe Hemos and I are speaking too, but I'm much more interested in seeing this LotR thing.

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Re:Movie magic

[donglekey]

That was certainly not the Zenith of visual effects.

John Gaeta was the visual effects supervisor for the Matrix, if that is what you are talking about. So it was his crew, the artists and the developers. Dan Piponi is head of R&D. It is a simbiotic relationship, don't pretend that one doesn't need the other.

Manex won the Oscar for visual effects for the Matrix.

That wasn't the same year (Obviously) as Titanic. Titanic was before that, not in the inerim. In fact Manex won back to back Oscars for What Dreams May Come and The Matrix, so Titanic was actually in 1997.

Star Wars Episode I should have won for visual effects, but it didn't because the movie was shit.

And finally, it tells us nothing about the sad state of affais in movies today.