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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".
Pixar needs to start doing more adult level CG stuff they do such great work but there stuff is mostly appealing to young kids..
- I came I saw I Conquered
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.
No, I do not have a receipt. I won it as a door prize at the Star Trek convention, although I find their choice of prize highly illogical, as the average Trekker has no use for a medium size belt.
I stole this Sig
For my ethnomethodological assignment I chose to violate established norms for behavior in a poker game. I was with three friends, and we were playing poker for pocket change. As is customary, after each hand the job of dealer passes to the left. I waited for my turn to deal, and when it came I began shuffling normally.
"Five card draw, deuces wild. Ante is twenty five cents," I said. I waited for everyone to put their quarters into the pot, and once everyone had paid the ante, I threw the entire deck of cards into the air, scattering them everywhere.
My friends were surprised, to say the least. One of them just looked at me as if I had lost my mind. One of them pulled a knife from his pocket jokingly and said, "We have a problem."
The third said "What the (expletive deleted) is wrong with you?" I laughed and explained the assignment as I picked up the cards. My friends seemed surprised that I would have been given such an assignment, but I tried to explain my fit of madness as best I could. My friends, not being of a sociological bent, were not terribly impressed or interested with my explanation, but they chuckled and said that if my intent was to disrupt the expected standards of behavior, I had succeeded. Once I had picked up the cards the game continued on as normal.
From the experiment I learned that people can have a wide range of reactions when confronted with unexpected or unacceptable behavior, especially when there is money involved (even a meager 25 cents). I was particularly amused at my friend's implication that violence might be a necessary reaction to such a breach of protocol, knowing that he was only half-joking with his knife-play. I imagine it would be quite risky to pull such a stunt had I not been such good friends with those involved.
Here.
Can you hear me now?
right now!
saw this coming
In teh event of an actual emergency this space might provide useful information.
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!!!
Who is this Anonymous Coward character, how does he post so much, and why is he always such a whore?
and I'm bored.
3rd shift computer babysitting--I can feel my ass grow.
He painted a unicorn in outer space. I'm askin' ya, what's it breathin'?
Here, /math will see to it that those add up to -72 Offtopic.
Any sufficiently well-organized Government is indistinguishable from bullshit.
Just curious...how much karma have you whored by posting this under every LOTR posting? ;)
Linux: The world's best text-adventure game.
...are no colonies of your fucking wasted homeland, fool.