The Internet Preview of Lord of the Rings yesterday caused quite a stir. Comments and analysis abound over what the fleeting images represent, how accurate those glimpses were to the text, and how the beasties, cast, and locations look.
If you haven’t had the opportunity or patience to check out our examination of the Preview, you should check it out. Calisuri, Anwyn, Quickbeam, and the rest of the staff put a lot of time into this while I slept, check it out here.
In the fine style that we have come to expect out of Michael Martinez, Suite 101 has posted an in depth article going over the Preview. You can check it out here. (And remember if Barliman’s is good enough for Michael it is good enough for you 😉
Numerous people have emailed us about the Daily Radar chiming in with it’s Lord of the Rings: Shot by Shot. It doesn’t add too much to the topic, but is worth a read through either way.
The Preview has been been mentioned by a variety of news sources and covered to a greater or lesser degree. Later today we should be posting about the general news coverage. We know that it was mentioned on ABC, MSNBC, NZ TV1, and some others. If you have spotted a mention of the Preview, mail spymaster@theonering.net and make sure we know about it.
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Welcome Friends! Gamgee here, back again with another edition of the Tolkien Fun Section! Our winner yesterday was Morden! Good job Morden!
The answers were: 1) Elfhild 2) Gundabad 3) Quickbeam Now for the questions of the day:
1) “What is the Quenyan word for ice-fangs?”
2) “ddenahlae” (scrambled Tolkien person, place or thing)
3) “The Halflings are courteous folk, whatever else they be.” (Who said this?)
As always Mail me with your answers, the 1st person to send me all 3 correct answers in one letter will be posted here tomorrow! Good Luck!…..Gamgee
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Hey folks, you have answered our call to arms! Literally hundred’s of emails came my way this day and I have listened to everyone one of them. The result was some MAJOR changes to our frame by frame review. Some of you might find this very interesting… who is on that white horse being chased by the Riders?…[ more ]
MAJOR SPOILERS!!!
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DA, a super Ringer fan, emailed me with what they think is an explanation of that ‘scan’ picture in the preview trailer. [ more ]
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This is an email I received from super Ringer fan DA:
Hello,
Thanks for a great site! I was taking a look at your frame-by-frame of the teaser trailer, and I figure you folks probably know what the “scan” scene on http://www.theonering.net/movie/preview/page04.html really was, but I wanted to make sure.
I believe it’s showing a technique called “laser stripe scanning”, which is a method of building a 3D computer model used in computer animation. The idea is to have an artist first construct a sculpture of some model such as a character’s head. The model is then placed in a laser scanner, a device that shoots a thin laser stripe at the sculpture, and records its reflection with a special camera. It can then compute, based on how the stripe’s image follows the bulges and dips on the sculpture, what the 3D shape is. After some further analysis is done on this 3D data, it can be used in animation.
The technology involved here is relatively new, and has been viable for use in the animation industry only for the past couple of years, but it’s a very effective method of creating realistic 3D computer models. At http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/ you can see some interesting photos and information on a project using laser stripe scanning to digitize the sculpture work of Michaelangelo in Italy. The people doing this for LOTR are probably using similar (albeit smaller) equipment.
I’m a graduate student in computer science at the University of Washington in Seattle. My adviser here, Dr. *******, did some of the pioneering work on this technology as his Ph.D. thesis back in the mid 90’s.
Regards,
DA
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While others were resting their heads…our hard-working Ringer staff were able to get some great screen-shots from the internet preview and provide some insight (factual or not) into what each frame might represent. Check it out in our preview area.
If you think we are wrong on a few things, please don’t hesitate to email me! calisuri@theonering.net
Man, is that preview cool or what! 🙂
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