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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".
...but they still can't make Frodo look like a guy.
(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 :-/
(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
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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.
Damn, I thought they just used a bunch of unemployed dot commers...
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What truth?
There is no dupe
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.
But do they have Tolkien ring network cards in them?
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