!!WARNING POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!
Harry has an image from what he says to be an image from the production on AICN. It’s supposed to be from a Japanese artist. Harry has an odd little report about it. Read on.
LORD OF THE RINGS…. wanna see Sauron’s Eye?
Hey folks… heh… Have I got something for you. I have been working secretly on a set of nanobots, really small little suckers. Their job is to go out there and find me some very cool stuff, then hop it back to Geek Headquarters for debriefing and download.
Nanobot 1, has just returned. Ya see… last time I was at L.A.’s International Airport… I turned about 3000 of these buggers loose… Nanobot 1 made it’s way to New Zealand by way of Japan. Originally, Nanobot 1 was programmed to go to Hawaii to gather FINAL FANTASY info, but… well… I still have programming work to do. Here is the report that I have decoded from his C++ gibberish…
Go to AICN for the rest of the article.
Click on the Spy Reports to see the image.
!!WARNING POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!
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It’s amazing how “idle” chat can lead to big ideas and good things! This web page started developing weeks ago when our guests, busily sending pix and .wavs back and forth, asked for a page of their own. What a great idea! We have been working hard ever since to design and build a lighthearted page specifically for the enjoyment of Barliman’s chat room guests. This page will offer a place for folks to place their pictures and bios, and download sound .wavs regularly heard in the chat room. You can also come here for updates on upcoming chats in the Hall of Fire.
You ask… we deliver! Speaking for the staff of Barliman’s, we hope you enjoy!!!
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Just a short update to let you people know that the set explained in the article “Barren Landscape” has been discribed by insider ‘Tui’ as the set for a “castle”. Speculation is that this is going to be Helms Deep.
Photos coming soon!
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Aiglos here,
I found this rather long article about Media360 and its use in Lord of the Rings…enjoy:
Date: 10/15 07:54 EST
INFORMIX UNVEILS MEDIA360, THE INDUSTRY’S FIRST END-TO-END MEDIA ASSET MANAGEMENT SOLUTION BETA CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERS APPLAUD THE POWER AND Flexibility of Web-Based, Complete Solution
GENEVA, Oct 15, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — TELECOM ’99 — Making further strides in helping customers solve their complex business problems, Informix(R) Corporation, the technology leader in enterprise database-powered solutions, today announced Media360(TM), an end-to-end media asset management solution designed to help businesses manage their valuable digital assets throughout the enterprise.
Informix’s Media360 solution addresses the business problems encountered by every organisation that needs to create, store and distribute content. This includes traditional and new media companies, broadcasters, film production, radio, retail, publishing, finance, education, government and brand management organisations.
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Weta Weta Ltd., the Southern Hemisphere’s premier visual effects facility, will use Media360 to archive and manage up to 1,500 special effect shots that the company will create during the production of Peter Jackson’s screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. Weta has created award-winning special effects for films such as CONTACT and The Frighteners.
After closely evaluating competitive products, the company chose Media360 because it needed an end-to-end system that could handle at least 60 terabytes of model, animation, texture and image data that will be produced over the course of the $260 million, three film project.
“The creation of visual effects for film is a very data intensive process,” said Jon Labrie, Weta‘s chief technical officer. “A shot that passes in a mere 5 to 10 seconds may contain dozens, sometimes hundreds of separate image elements-and each of these elements may be the end result of many other operations. The majority of visual effect shots we will produce for Lord of the Rings will be very complex, and will include computer-generated images that interact with human characters. Weta needed an asset management system that is powerful, flexible, and easily extensible. Media360 is the only solution that met all of those criteria. It’s in a class by itself.”
Approximately 80 Weta artists and 40 production staff will use Media360 to create, manage, and search a library of shots. The Informix system supports complex queries for particular types of shots and images. A key factor in Weta‘s choice was Media360’s object relational capability. Media360’s functionality will accommodate Weta‘s object work model, and allows each department to have a customised view and workflow.
Telecinco Informix has developed a digital multimedia archive with the Spanish TV Company Telecinco that is at the forefront of digital archive technology. Media360 has enabled Telecinco to gain competitive edge by being one of the very first European broadcasters to exploit its digital video assets online.
Telecinco’s archivists and journalists can access video footage and associated operational data with much greater speed and precision, allowing them to use the material more effectively as a result. By deploying this system, Telecinco will also be in the vanguard of companies addressing the needs of future consumer-led video-on-demand services.
“Using this advanced technology, Telecinco has very quickly implemented innovative business processes that allows us to maintain a position at the forefront of European broadcasters,” said Jose Luis Romero, director of Telecinco’s IT division. “Media360 has improved our work processes and provided great savings in both time and money.”
Informix will exhibit Media360 with customer demonstrations throughout the International Broadcasting Conference in the Rai Center, Hall 3, Booth 142.
About Informix Informix Corporation, based in Menlo Park, Calif., provides innovative database solutions that assist the worlds’ major corporations to attain competitive advantage. Informix is widely recognised as the technology leader for corporate computing environments ranging from small workgroups to very large parallel processing applications. Informix’s database server, application development tools, superior customer service, and strong partnerships enable the company to be at the forefront of major information technology solution areas including media and publishing, data warehousing, high performance OLTP, and Web/e-commerce. For more information, contact the sales office nearest you or visit our Web site at www.informix.com.
Thanks to Aiglos for the tip!
For more on Informix and it’s computer capabilities. Read Tehanu’s NZ Exclusive ‘Non-industrial light and magic’.
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I have just updated the list of out of production Mithrils. Some early figures have been added due to us finding some old stock in our factory shop.
Click here for the list.
Thanks to Adam: Mithril Web master, for the tip!
For more LOTR related goodies, check out our shop.
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