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LotR RotK Premiere Today In New Zealand
donnz writes "Things are getting a little out of hand in Wellington today. For those of you who have not spent the night sleeping on the sidewalk CityLink have been wiring up webcams all over the place. Keep up with all the news and links on Stuff.co.nz. Just to show we are twice blessed, the sun is shining."
I believe they used the linux platform as well to orchestrate the battles; in the massive melees they set up a bunch of orc and human models, defined their movement, gave them scripts and defined their objective as 'stay alive, and kill those not of your type', gave them scripts pointing to these objectives, and just *let them do their thing*.
Much of the battle at Helmsdeep, for instance, is AI program vs AI program. Awesome.
*of course, the first time they tried it, the humans broke ranks and just ran away from the orcs. What does that say?
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I'd kill for him to do a series based on the A Song of Ice and Fire books by George R.R Martin.
Really I would.
> the first time they tried it, the humans broke ranks and just ran away from the orcs. What does that say?
Actually according to TTT extended version DVDs, the AI's in the back just started running away from the battle. The reason being that they had programmed the AIs to start running in random directions if they coudn't see an enemy AI, hoping that like this the AIs would run into an ennemy sooner or later. If your AI is at the back of a 10000 people uruquai army, then this strategy won't really work, so they changed it...
nothing to see here, move on....
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Sitting in my living room about 20mins walk from the Embassy where the premiere is taking place. To be honest, I find the excitement the whole city is experiencing a little embarrassing. All four of our free-to-air television stations are doing specials tonight, the Dominion Post newspaper devotes the entire first three pages to it. I mean, really it is just a film premiere.
Nevertheless, some of the buildings around Wellington look fantastic, a few adorned with giant models from Weta. I believe the red carpet is over 400 metres long, spanning the length of Courtenay Place, one of our largest streets.
Should be interesting, but really the hype is almost unbearable.
Just letting Slashdot know not every Wellingtonian is so damn excitable!
Also who can deny the lush beautiful landscapes that NZ provided. Seriously. A friend of mine spent 6 months in Antarctica at a US research base (he only had an internet connection when a communications satellite was overhead... I think 8 hours a day or something) and then spent 6 months in NZ just traveling around... his photos were amazing, and I half expected to see Gandolf riding a horse in the distance. I would LOVE to go there some day, except I hear it's hard to get into the country sometimes.
Well it's the premiere, so it is an invite only kind of deal.
Kiwis will have the first opportunity to see it when it is officially released to. Comes from being on the right side of the international date line, it's the official date for release a good 12hrs ahead of the US. Also makes for good new years celebration, the first to see in the new year and it's the middle of summer to (so big outdoor parties etc.).
Woah - walk to work at 9am along coutenay place, and I'm sure every teen girl is along the red carpet -- heaps of them with sleeping bags ! :P
Can't imagine how busy it will be this afternoon - given the 'parade' is what - atleast 5km long?
Everybody decent on the production has been paid for their work. Its only the greedy bastards at newline which expect to keep cashing in again and again on the work of other people. Its fair they make their money back, its fair they make a profit - but its sick amoral greed when that profit ends up being 40000%
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that Peter Jackson supposedly finished the last cuts, this wednesday - would be awfully fast to make a DVD screener.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Geographically close? The distance between Auckland and Sydney is considerably more than say London to Rome, or New York to Miami. And there is nothing between the two countries except water. It'd be a hell of a long swim.
Oh and in response to the earlier " They do have kangaroos in New Zealand, don't they?", no we don't, but Wallabies are a somewhat similar species (albeit smaller) that was introduced here a long time ago.
Ha! If you'd come to VUW (the university on a hillside overlooking the wellington CBD) earlier this year, you'd have been able to hear Milton Ngan from Weta talking about it.
Yet another excuse to plug Interface, the VUW Computer Club, which ran that event (or more accurately, took it over from the CS department): if you're a CS student at VUW, you really should become a member.
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Maybe not quite that many, but I still think the Lay of Luthien would make a great movie. It's about the right length; it already has romance, and it rides LotR's coat-tails nicely. Seriously!
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I, personally, think it's great that New Zealand is going bonkers over the Premier. I actually wish that such things as unnecessary as a film could have a huge impact over here. It would be like a holiday, only there's no squabble about the moral stance on wether to celebrate or not (unless you want to argue that it sucks, or if you're too snobby for Hollywood).
I attended the Witching Hour at my Barnes and Noble for Harry Potter. I didn't really buy the book, I just went people-watching. Admittedly, I was a little disappointed. All the fun-and-games were done by one magician, and I think that was completely freelance. Instead they were all big huge lines.
I guess it's just me. Admittedly, not many other people dressed up as pirates to go see Pirates of the Caribbean, but I think it would only be fun.
Good job Kiwis. My grandmother lives there, and I eagerly await visiting. Especially beacause I want some Hokey Pokey or Tip Top ice cream!
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I took some photos, see Photos from ROTK premiere
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