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WETA Digital Operations Mgr. Talks Special Effects

Posted by timothy on from the and-a-one-and-a-two-and-a dept.

Xoanon (from TheOneRing.net) writes "I was recently privileged enough to view a lecture by Milton Ngan. As far as IT stuff goes, Milton has a pretty good job. You see, he is the Digital Operations Manager at Weta Digital. He is basically the architect for all the technical side of things at Weta. Last night he came and gave a 1 hour lecture at Victoria University outlining the hurdles and obstacles that needed to be overcome to produce the stunning 3D graphics lying in each of the Lord of the Rings movies. The lecture itself was full of lots of facts about Weta, the IT side of things and it also included some very cool behind the scenes shots of The Two Towers. The following is a detailed report from the event, where Ngan gave us an amazing behind-the-scenes look at WETAs infrastructure, their mainframes and various workstations. There is also a TON of info in regards to the special effects process, and news about MASSIVE. Take a look."

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  4. Gee golly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mah weta digital hard drive does this really keen special effect where it makes a sound like a opossum caught in a combine.

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    It consists of 192 Dual Pentium 1 GHz and 448 Dual 2.2 GHz processors. A total of 1280 processors running at approximately 2,355 GHz...

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!

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    Someone please tell me about these. They could have wonderful medical applications, for fitting various things precisely to various parts of the body. The machine that hospitals are now using costs nearly $100,000. Need is for a 3D model of a body part accurate to about 1 mm. TIA for any info!!!