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Article about The Lord of the Rings MASSIVE Crowd
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".
Cause thats how I determine what movie I wanna see; the crowds! Spend millions on crowds. Millions, I tell you!
"Old man yells at systemd"
...but they still can't make Frodo look like a guy.
I thought they really just used a bunch of actors. Of course they didn't REALLY use elves but damn now i feel let down.
unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep
me friends always told me i looked like an orc.
I thought the last ALL CAPS NAME was FORTRAN because computers finally supported lowercase characters after that.
(A few update Tolkein; keep an eye out for a background character in The Two Towers who, in the middle of the battle, seems to take a call on his cellphone.)
Damn, now I'm going to have to watch Two Towers like 5 times until I see that scene... great way to get me to spend more money :-/
From page 42: 'This is a digital analog to a technique...'
I know that this sentence makes sense, but it sounds so funny that it seems wrong.
Yeah, One Topic To Rule Them All!
In Soviet Russia, the monkey spanks you!
(Obligatory reply saying parent is generalizing and how not everybody on Slashdot has the same viewpoints)
-- Dr. Eldarion --
(A few update Tolkein; keep an eye out for a background character in The Two Towers who, in the middle of the battle, seems to take a call on his cellphone.)
Oh the irony...
Just remember after you post this you are now fair game. What??!? you ask?
If I'm in the theater to watch TTT for the first time, and you're in the very same theater but to see your fourth iteration, and you might be getting a little teensy bit bored, if you perchance forget where you are and you take a call on _your_ fucking cell phone, I get to kill you with my +5 Vorpal (Offical) LoTR Special DVDs.
Fair warning, OK?
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
Purchase some of the servers used to render the CGI in the first LOTR movie here .
Own a geeky piece of history!
Damn you to the pits of Mordor!
I just bought 4 (more!) TTT action figures this evening, and thought that my geek-collector mania had hit a new low - and now I see this... this server... this precious server, yes... yes, yes my precious... precious, yes, mine, all of it, mine!...
Well, that's easy. Yoda has the Force and a light saber, Golum has a lisp!
... you never can tell, can you?
Other than that, CG Golum is a computer generated image mapped on top of an actor, which makes his movements a lot more realistic. Or maybe they just got a really ugly person to play Golum
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
CG Yoda would kick CG Golum's ass.
He painted a unicorn in outer space. I'm askin' ya, what's it breathin'?
... where I can get a leaked alpha version of MASSIVE?
Sounds like one of the Batman movies, the one with the Penguin. There was a herd of penguins running amok through the city, but they were all CG, with this 'logic' making them stampede correctly. Well, in the true nature of randomness, three of the buggers wandered off down an alley, while their comrades ran to attack Batman. Saw it on a Hollywood blooper type show last year.
:-)
Overall, of course, who cares if penguins wander off? But just wanted to sound important.
All they had to do to get a large crowd of filty obese creatures of myth was to film a comic convention.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
Does the article cover something of extreme interest to nerds? YES, duh! +2 /. respects? WETA, yup, /. respects them. Hmmm... -2 /. feels about them. YES. +5
Does the article cover somebody
Does the article cover some aspect that nobody knew about before? YES. +1
Is the article posted on a for-free fan site? YES. +1
Did the article come from an evil corporation? Popular Science is owned by AOL Time Warner and we all know how
That totals up to +7 (and I probably forgot a few things), so it doesn't matter if it's copyright infringement.
pooped into my mind
He painted a unicorn in outer space. I'm askin' ya, what's it breathin'?
One ring to rule them all....
One Tolkien ring, you mean.
Sorry!
No, I'm sorry.
(Posting anonymously for all the obvious reasons.)
One Ring to rwho them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to ping them all
And in the darkness ypbind them
But do they have Tolkien ring network cards in them?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Yeah.
My deviantArt site
orc ai:
g runt()chief.grunt())
while(all_your_ring_are_belong_to_us())
{
if(
whine();
else if(!eat(hobbit)) order(hunt, hobbit);
if (type==sauron) yell("grhhheee eye ssseeeees");
else if(type==saruman) order(pizza, teenagemutanheroturtles);
}
what i'm saying is they should do tmht(or tmnt if you prefer) with this technological masterpiece. they might get decent acting in it too then.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
I know some of these LOTR nerds are fat, but there's reason to throw around hurtful words like massive.
What? It's not that?
Carry on.
Have to wonder, though - will the /. community cheer the said [pornographic] production similarly? ;^)
Well, that gives a whole new meaning to "the sound of one hand clapping"...
Freedom: "I won't!"
This is exactly what I'm fearing about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy adaptation.
How do you film something that's described like, "The Vogon ship hung low in the sky in exactly the way that bricks don't."
...?
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
The quote on the bottom of the poster says "You shall not pass!". That's strange, aren't they supposed to take quotes that are inspiring? I saw a Star Trek Poster once, which had "Boldly Go" as the quote.
It would be quite a downer for a student to have such a poster, studying for an exam in his room, and then looking up at the poster only to see "You shall not pass!".
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
re-arranging slightly....
/. feels about them. YES. +5 /. respects? WETA, yup, /. respects them. Hmmm... -2
Does the article cover something of extreme interest to nerds? YES, duh! +2
Does the article cover some aspect that nobody knew about before? YES. +1
Is the article posted on a for-free fan site? YES. +1
Did the article come from an evil corporation? Popular Science is owned by AOL Time Warner and we all know how
Does the article cover somebody
That totals up to +3, and so is morally ambiguous