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Article about The Lord of the Rings MASSIVE Crowd

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the one-hour-extra-footage-out-next-week dept.

TheOneRing.net has posted an article going indepth about LotR CGI, and specifically the rendering of extremely large crowds being done byWETA Digital. With the special edition due out soon, and TTT coming out in december, well let's just leave it at "Yay".

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  1. I don't get it... by MoThugz · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What's so big a deal about computer generated crowds? It's been done since computers are actively used for visual effects (remember the Skeleton Army from Living Dead?).

    Yeah, sure they are more detailed nowadays... but that's the beauty of technology, everything improves over time.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Tolkien and the LOTR movies, but I don't get how 6 pictures of scanned pages can generate such irrelevant headline on Slashdot.

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