Behind the Scenes -LOTR
I'm not sure if anyone has posted this yet, but I found a series a videos on the making of the two big battle scenes in 1 and 2. They talk a lot about Massive, the program they used to make the 80,000 person armies, and about compositing the final shot.
Behind the Scenes - LOTR
Also they mentioned this really cool scanner that they used to scan the clay model to turn them into digital geometry.
mahalo,
Myk
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