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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. Pixar's stuff is better than most adult films! by Artifice_Eternity · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They certainly blow most other "kid" movies out of the water (especially those by Disney, who funds them but can't compete with them creatively).

    Spirited Away is the only "kid" movie I've seen in ages that could stand up to a Pixar flick.

  2. stephan hawking by berb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    saw this coming

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  3. Vanilla Holy War by Dave_bsr · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I don't like butterscotch, but I do like vanilla. You don't see friggin holy wars over pudding, though, do you?

    VANILLA! WHAT!?? WHAT! That's it, I've had it with you vanilla idiots. CARMEL FOREVER!!!

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  4. Kevin "Klerck" Ealy wrote that petition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The petition is an enormous troll concocted by Mr. Homosexual-Extraordinaire himself. Notice at the bottom of it:
    ...written by Kevin Klerck.
    The email address says: slashdotwidener@yahoo.com A whois on www.klerck.org returns the following:
    Registrant:
    Kevin Ealy
    14 Stanhope Road
    Goose Creek, SC 29445
    US

    Registrar: Dotster (http://www.dotster.com)
    Domain Name: KLERCK.ORG
    Created on: 27-AUG-00
    Expires on: 28-AUG-03
    Last Updated on: 27-AUG-00
  5. Re:should they have that on their site? by medscaper · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Don't forget, you're not on any REGULAR moderation board, sonny.

    Here, /math will see to it that those add up to -72 Offtopic.

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  6. Re:LOTR topic on /. by jhoffoss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just curious...how much karma have you whored by posting this under every LOTR posting? ;)

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