Who's going to see The Two Towers on Wednesday?

[Creative Mayhem]

Originally posted by CaPoEiRa


yep, got it! It's awesome

I got it and its worth every penny I paid...


C Mayhem

[rdb123]

Originally posted by davidb
It has one of the coolest previews I've ever seen......

Yeah that part with Legolas sliding down the staircase shooting his arrows looks awesome.

Originally posted by CaPoEiRa


yes, definitely!


Well, it is definitely worth it if you want to see more from the book. There's more character development, and more background into what is to come. The extras are great too, took a while to watch them all.

Ha ok cool I'll pick it up. I'm going to have a hard time justifying that I own both the first release and this new release though, haha. =)

Also, did you guys know that Massive(tm), the 3D prog they used to make those dynamic, random movements of those armies costs about $50,000?

The developers want it to be free to students who are taking 3D Design like myself, but so far, the owners of the program do not want it to be free to students. Darnit! =\

-Ron

[BlackHalo]

Hee hee hee

I get to see it tonight (Wed the 11th)! It's nice working for a company that buys rights to all the big licenses (007, Harry Potter, LotR...).

[Hexis]

I was pretty sure they wrote Massive for the LotR movies.

I hope they do The Hobbit as well. I would love to see a movie with more Bilbo.

Darn, last year I got to see FotR a week early, I wish I could find someting similar this year. That would be tonight.

[Trigger_Happy]

Maybe this has been said, but you forgot one option: midnight showing.....hell ya

[rdb123]

Re: Hee hee hee

Originally posted by BlackHalo
I get to see it tonight (Wed the 11th)! It's nice working for a company that buys rights to all the big licenses (007, Harry Potter, LotR...).

Lucky!

Originally posted by Hexis
I was pretty sure they wrote Massive for the LotR movies....

Correct. I recently asked if they will license it out to students and they told me that they will license it out to everyone at a cost of $50,000 regardless of use.

Looks like I know what I'm going to ask for this Christmas. j/k

Originally posted by Trigger_Happy
Maybe this has been said, but you forgot one option: midnight showing.....hell ya

Yeah, well I figured that would somewhat fit into "I'm going to camp out."

-Ron

[Spray Painter]

Originally posted by Hexis
I was pretty sure they wrote Massive for the LotR movies.

ya, they used massive, theres one seen in the two towers(assult on helms deep) that there are 50,000 characters fighting. in the last one there will be over 100000 in one battle(think it's the last battle)

[rdb123]

The link if anyone's interested:
MASSIVE

This is just amazing for me considering I spend a great deal of my computer time doing 3D Animation. Some of you might not know this, but without that program there, an artist would have to script every single movement. So if the action calls for the fighter to swing his right arm in an upwards slash, you have to script him cocking his head back, his forearm rotating, and the flexion of his brachioradialus -- Lot's of work!

Just utterly amazing considering a new program does all of this for you randomly. However, it takes a huge workstation with nearly 10GB of RAM just to pull it off.

-Ron

[Spray Painter]

they had a big article in popular science about lotr and massive, it was pretty cool.
thanks for the link rdb123

[datapimp69]

im taking a longggggg lunch on wensday...

[Hexis]

I think when you hit 10gb of ram you are beyond the worstation catagory.

[rdb123]

Originally posted by Hexis
I think when you hit 10gb of ram you are beyond the worstation catagory.

Not really.... the GSI Workstations used for the Final Fantasy Movie had 4GB of RAM each.

You could also do network render and combine your total computer power. =)

-Ron

[MantisMag]

Originally posted by Hexis
I think when you hit 10gb of ram you are beyond the worstation catagory.

what would that make it then? an even-worsteration? hehe. sorry. that was bad. i just finished the majority of my finals today.

btw i checked out that moviecash thing. seems like you can use it whenever. as long as they're not sold out.