Some great new images can be found in the fan art section.
We have added a new section to the fan site: Multimedia. Check out the active desktop available!
Head on over to the cast section for updates.
Category: Fans
Hey folks,
There are a bunch of new images and a MOVIE in the fan art section.
Thanks to Simon Whitaker for this weeks poll question. I didn’t get many poll ideas last week, so make sure your sending yours in! View the old polls here.
Have a great week everyone!
Hey folks, happy weekend..:) Due to the great scoop Xoanon landed the other day, I have updated the cast page with character descriptions etc. I will also update characters page with this information in the future.
We also have 5 new fan art images and a small change in the format for fan art. Tell me what you think. Thanks!
One more thing…submit those poll questions! Due by Sunday Noon EST.
Check out tehanu’s new note! As expected, its another thought provoking article to dig your teeth into.
We also have some amazing new fan art. Thanks again to all the people that have submitted their art. Remember, I will accept movies and sounds as long as they are your original work. (So all you 3d animators out there, get to work! heh)
As the fan art section gets larger and larger I guess we are going to have to make some changes to make things load faster for you folks. Look for some changes in the near future.
Wondering how they are going to use CGI in the huge battle scenes? ‘Alain’ interviewed Peter Jackson himself not too long ago and learned the following:
….My magazine is a newszine called Science-Fiction Magazine. It’s 84 pages quadri with a printing of 65000 copies. It’s the one and prime (a.k.a. only) SF mag in France. We also tackle subjects such as Fantasy, Horror, and the Fantastique…
I’m not too sure regarding your whereabouts… But, if you’re familiar with the british SFX, well, we sort of look a bit like them.
Weta is Peter Jackson sfx company based in New Zealand. Massive is a software created by Weta geeks. As you surely know, there will be 15,000 extras (non talking parts) involved in the movie The LotR. Thanks to ‘Massive’, these extras will be digitalized and reproduced so as to have some 200,000 characters in the battle scenes. The + thing is that the battle will run randomly. That is: no one single character is programmed according to Peter’s will. The computer will rule them all and decide on its own who dies, who lives, what form of action it performs. And if Jackson goes for another shot, it will not reproduce the same pattern….
Massive is the software that Weta FX has designed to handle the battle CGI. Wow, being a former Computer Science major, that software appears to be very powerful! I wonder what kind of systems they use to run the battles?