At the suggestion of our friends at TheForce.net, TheOneRing.netª is proud to announce our affiliation with IGN.com, the internet’s premiere entertainment website.
What does this mean for TheOneRing.netª? You will notice just a few physical changes to the site. We will now carry the IGN logo with its link to their larger world of entertainment-related sites. There will be a wider variety of ad banners, on our main site that will open your eyes to many new science-fiction and fantasy related sites. What about the small business ads? Well, we will still be carrying very low cost or free ads for Tolkien-related small businesses in our sister sites like Gaming Havens, Green Books, Fan.TheOneRing.netª, etc. Last but not least, don’t worry! We won’t be changing our web URL or anything drastic like that. TheOneRing.netª will still be hosting on our server and will still be run by the same group of 20+ volunteers.
With our partnership with IGN, TheOneRing.netª realizes it is likely that expenses will be more than covered. We don’t intend that personal profit will now become our main objective, and we have investigated a number of charitable causes which we will support. TheOneRing.netª is proud to announce that we are in talks to become co-sponsors of an online environmental education program for schools which is run by the Worldwide Fund for Nature. We also will be supporting an educational program in NZ called Books in Homes, a scheme which is doing a great deal to ensure that coming generations will continue to read and feel as comfortable with books as we are; it is our hope that many children will discover the magic of some of the books we have loved and learned from.
We are VERY excited for this opportunity to support these various charities. More information on these charities and more will become available as plans are finalized. We would like to thank IGN helping us to be able to help others.
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This week I have been going to a summer program at the Australian FIlm Television and Radio School, during the week lecturers in many different fields have been talking to us.
One of the men was a man from an Australian digital fx company called ‘Animal Logic’ (www.animallogic.com), he was showing us some of his work (matrix etc) and during his lecture he told us how they use digital effects in films to create larger armies than there actually are.
Animal Logic spoke about the ‘Massive’ technology, however they are not working on LOTR. However he showed us how to create large amounts of people for battle scenes. He has done ads such as the KFC ad where all the KFC employees are watching the huge screen with Star Wars images. He has also done the Maytag ads where the parents vs the kids on a field over what is for dinner.
How he did it was take about 50 or so extras and film them doing the actions at certain places on the field. They filmed the extras using all the different camera angles the ad would require and they created a system by which the camera could pan without effecting the end effect as normally the camera had to be steady to do this sort of effect. What they then did was use the existing images of people to fill in the rest of the gaps on the field. Once all together with camera pans etc it really looks like there are thousands of people.
As I said he is not working on LOTR but this is a good example of how WETA will probably create large hordes of Orcs.
For more on this and other computer related magic check out our SFX section.
Thanks to Resevoir Dog for the tip!
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Aint it cool news is reporting that Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) has denied the rumors that she will be replacing Jodie Foster in the ‘Silence of the Lambs’ sequel.
To this Cate replied “rumor, rumor, rumor” and then elaborated on this with praise of Jodie and saying Jodie was “irreplacable.” [More]
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TheOneRing.netª is proud to announce its newest community member: O SENHOR DOS ANƒIS! (a Portuguese language LOTR Movie site)
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We are still taking applications for community webspace. Take a look at our community section for more information on how to join the ever expanding site! [ TheOneRing.netª Community ]
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The Elijah Wood (Frodo) film ‘The Faculty’ is on TMN today. [More]
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Love, Middle-earth Style
One of the most popular stories of Middle-earth is the tale of Beren and Luthien. It’s a classic poor-boy falls for rich girl drama combined with high adventure, intrigue, depravity, and magic. There seems to be something for everyone. [More]
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