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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. Oy. by DrEldarion · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    (Obligatory post complaining about how people at slashdot are hypocrites, one day bashing the MPAA, the next day raving about an upcoming movie)

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  2. Change The Name! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Somewhere there's a petition to change the name because 'Two Towers' sounds too much like the WTC.

    Anybody got the link?

  3. Re:Misguided f*cktards or BlackHole Troll wannabes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Preach It Brotha!

  4. Re:PJ's Version Is Disappointing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I suppose you've no clue who Fingolfin was, either. Or that the ram which struck down the gates of Gondor was named after Morgoth's own hammer.

    Middle Earth would not be Middle Earth without the Silmarillion. But I'll bite on yer, "Been smoking the pipeweed?" line.

    I consider Jackson's films no better than Saving Private Ryan, Enemy at the Gates, or any other war/history influenced/etc. film. They all tend to be great, but if you want the truth to what actually happened, you need to look elsewhere.

    (And yes, I'm aware of the idiocy of 'the truth to what actually happened' in reference to a work of fiction. :P)

  5. 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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