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Posted - 03/14/2003 :  11:06:14 AM  Show Profile  Visit CR6's Homepage  Reply with Quote
If you still haven't checked out The Lord of the Rings movies, you are definitely missing out! There's a great article posted at The One Ring.net about how many computers WETA Digital uses to do the 3D graphics in LOTR:
  • Workstations at Weta:
    -125 SGI Octane systems
    -220 Linux systems
    -35 NT systems
    -15 Mac systems
  • Then there’s the rendering system. It runs 24 hours a day rendering out the 1000 odd shots that will be required for The Return of the King, and 160 brand-new shots for The Two Towers extended DVD edition. It consists of 192 dual Pentium IIIs at 1 GHz and 448 dual P4s at 2.2 GHz. A total of 1280 processors running at approximately 2,355 GHz ...

    Also, don't miss the downloadable "Making of" videos at IGN FilmForce taken from WETA's recent presentation at the Game Developers Conference.
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