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Gowpon
October 6th,2002, 03:06 AM
I don't if this is news to u guys or not...

When I went to see a movie today, the before-movies movie facts the theater plays on says:

LOTR: The Two Towers has 600+ specialy effects in the film!!


Just cool!!:thumbs:
Little Devil
October 6th,2002, 09:53 AM
Woah. 600+ that's amazing!
Smaug the Smog
October 6th,2002, 01:08 PM
My dad said FOTR was the movie that brought in the money for the other 2, so TTT should be alot better than FOTR because they have more $$$ to work with. Just think ahead 1 year to ROTK.....the number 1000 seems to pop into my head.
TheRingBearer
October 6th,2002, 05:28 PM
Oh yeah! Can you imagine how cool Mount Doom is gonna look by then :thumbs:
Bonos-Girl
October 6th,2002, 05:51 PM
OMG....600??!!! thats loads......unfortunately i guess that includes 'nuclear' galadriel...not one of my faves...hopefully they'll be better in ttt
Lord Raistlin
October 6th,2002, 06:06 PM
I want to see TTT
Gowpon
October 6th,2002, 06:29 PM
Originally posted by Bonos-Girl
OMG....600??!!! thats loads......unfortunately i guess that includes 'nuclear' galadriel...not one of my faves...hopefully they'll be better in ttt

No, what I meant is

TTT HAS 600+ SPECIAL EFFECT SHOTS! NOT FOTR!!! :thumbs:
Estel
October 6th,2002, 09:51 PM
Since Gollum is entirely computer generated, that should account for the high count! How long before I can order the Extended DVD version of TTT???
Gowpon
October 6th,2002, 10:39 PM
Dunno....want it sooo much anyways...lol
Bonos-Girl
October 7th,2002, 12:46 PM
sorry....can't read!!!! thats loads..how many are there in fotr?
TheRingBearer
October 7th,2002, 06:52 PM
Yeah how many, I'd guess about 400?
Gowpon
October 8th,2002, 12:30 AM
I dunno...
But have you guys read about the info that says WETA really ROCK on Gollum! They improved him after the first trailer!!

Anyone knows about that?:thumbs:
TheRingBearer
October 8th,2002, 07:54 PM
No but I'm intrigued :grin: :thumbs:
Lord Raistlin
October 9th,2002, 08:52 AM
I want to see the movie!
Gowpon
October 9th,2002, 05:10 PM
Yeah...I think most of the orcs in Helm's Deep (when see from far away) are CGI...:thumbs:
Bonos-Girl
October 9th,2002, 06:30 PM
it'd be kinda hard to have found loadsa people to dress as orcs and stuf
TheRingBearer
October 9th,2002, 06:32 PM
Yeah, they did well with however many people they did have hut then of course they have to add fake cg ones. It wouldn't be much good otherwise lol it'd be a bit of a small army.
Bonos-Girl
October 10th,2002, 10:31 AM
that would be sooo amusing. it'd be like 10 people or something!!! lol i saw this producyion of macbeth once and they had most of the actors doubling for other parts and the bit where the forest comes to macbeth they had the entire cast as soldiers and there were still only bout 10 people!!! roflmao
Gowpon
October 10th,2002, 03:51 PM
That's sooo funny!!! lol lol :naughty: :naughty:
Bonos-Girl
October 10th,2002, 04:35 PM
i know...they came on stage and the entire audience cracked up lol roflmao
Firith Evenstar
October 10th,2002, 05:26 PM
they invented a little computer system to make the huge crowds of orcs. each little figure had its own little system. so each one is unique!! isn't that amazing? this way it looks more real, and not all of the orcs are copying each others movements.
TheRingBearer
October 10th,2002, 06:09 PM
Yeah, its revolutionry :thumbs:
Bonos-Girl
October 10th,2002, 07:36 PM
didn't they use something like that in the disney film Mulan...or am i just imagining it. I think i saw a tv programme a couple of years ago bout it.
Gowpon
October 14th,2002, 12:19 AM
Really? I dunno...cuz Mulan is rather focused on the main character than big scenes...
TheRingBearer
October 14th,2002, 06:59 PM
and it's quite old now.
Bonos-Girl
October 14th,2002, 07:54 PM
there was one scene where there is a huge army and i think it was the first animated film to use that program or something....
Gowpon
October 14th,2002, 09:29 PM
Hmmm...my question is...how can human (assume that they are real actors) fight with so many CGI orckeys at the same time?:(
Bonos-Girl
October 15th,2002, 12:54 PM
thats what actors are for...they act!!! i always thought it'd be hard to act in front of the blue screen thing imagining the land was there!
Darbu
October 15th,2002, 02:04 PM
Originally posted by Bonos-Girl
there was one scene where there is a huge army and i think it was the first animated film to use that program or something....

The program used by Weta is called Massive, which was created in house by .... forgotten his name.

Its not like the Mulan one, I believe they used something like the program used in the first Jurassic Park, I don't think each sprite had a mind of its own, they were programed.

A friend of mine who is involved (its great being a NZ'er cause everyone here has a friend who was involved in the filming) with Weta, in the early days of the production. Were showing off Massive to some New Line executives, where two armies (orcs and elves/humans) faced off against each other, however there was a glitch in the programming. As the two armies approached each other close enough to begin their attack, the glitch started where each individual orc/human lost sight of their allies, believing that they were all alone against a whole army, each individual ran away.

Another story i heard was about lemmings but i won't go into that one.
Darbu
October 15th,2002, 02:21 PM
I can't wait to see if i can spot myself in Helms Deep :)

*checks watch* Dam thought it would be December by now!
Bonos-Girl
October 15th,2002, 03:52 PM
I was sure that they used a thing so that each warrior behaved individually rather than being programmed but it was a few years back so i don't really know!
Gowpon
October 26th,2002, 04:21 AM
I dunno...but I think the tech nowadays makes big progress everyday, so massive could be a lot high teched than the movies before...:thumbs: Just think about Gollum!lol
Bonos-Girl
October 26th,2002, 05:25 PM
he looks sooo cool......wow!!!!