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Behind the Scenes of Narnia's Special Effects

Posted by Hemos on from the behind-the-lion's-mane dept.

louismg writes "Walt Disney Pictures' Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe took in more than $100 million at the box office worldwide in its opening weekend, riding the back of special effects powering nearly all the movie's characters, from the lion Aslan to the Gryphon, Minotaur, Centaurs and more. VFXWorld has a series of diaries with the technology geeks at Rhythm & Hues behind the special effects. (Part 1, 2) For the fantasy film's special effects, Rhythm & Hues teamed up with Industrial Light and Magic and Sony Pictures Imageworks to deliver more than 1,400 shots for the film, and used cutting-edge technology from BlueArc, NVIDIA and others to keep the effects' production running."

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  1. Not again ! by hal0802 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... Yet another site with a "please give a dna sample to view our content".

  2. Re:Jesus=money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    christian head explosion. Aslan = Jesus but Disney = fag supporters.

  3. YOU FAIL IT by repruhsent · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it == spelling "dough"

  4. Mere Christianity by eldavojohn · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This story is basically a retelling of Jesus Christ. I loved it as a kid but as I got older and read more of C.S. Lewis, I became less and less impressed with him. I've read his books on Christianity and how he turned to Christianity after many hardships in his life. I'm a man of science myself and have thus forgotten about these books as I could never come to terms with them.

    After reading some of Orson Scott Card's infamous rantings, I have also fallen out of admiring him.

    Is anyone else having these problems with these once great authors? Maybe I shouldn't care about their political viewpoints when I read their fiction?

    --
    My work here is dung.
  5. ASLAN ONE ROAR ALL MUSLIMS DEAD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    n/t

  6. ASLAN DIES IN CoN : tL, tW & tW! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hermonie gives him a heart attack in the shower! (If you know what I mean, and I think you do...)

  7. I heard they used by Trails · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    xdugef

  8. negative Christian attitudes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I found the very negative attitudes toward Christians on this thread quite disturbing. If they had been negative threads toward Muslims it would have been PC -- after all, the US and UK are at war with the evil Muslim terrorists, all of which like to blow up freedom-loving Americans and Brits. If they had been negative threads toward Jews, it would have been anti-semitism and the ACLU, etc. would be trying to get us arrested, fired, kicked out of school, etc.

    Religion, like it or not, believe or not, is a core component of our society. Much good comes out of reasonable religion, of all types. How many of you have been to Church, Synagogue, a Buddist temple, a Masque, etc. How many of you actually understand the different beliefs of different communities? When will /. get a spell checkr?

    Of course, it's the 1% of very vocal, very right-wing or fundametalist chaps that really stir the pot ON ALL SIDES AND FOR ALL RELIGIONS.