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The American film industry recognised Weta Digital for its outstanding effects for the film trilogy based on The Lord of the Rings by presenting it with Academy Awards for visual effects for its work on The Fellowship Of The Ring ( 2001), The Two Towers ( 2002) and The Return of the King ( 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U).
Much of the success was due to the creation of MASSIVEMASSIVE is the computer animation and artificial intelligence software developed by Weta Digital to create some of the award winning graphics, particularly the battle sequences, for the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films directed by New Zealand native Pet, a program which allows the animation of large numbers of agentAn agent is an autonomous entity with an ontological commitment and agenda of its own. The term originated in philosophy. Each agent possesses the ability to act autonomously; this is an important distinction because a simple act of obedience to a commands, independent characters which act according to pre-set rules. This can be seen in the prologue to The Fellowship Of The Ring, the Helm's DeepTolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Helm's Deep was a large valley in the north-western Ered Nimrais (White Mountains). The valley was blocked over its entire width by the natural series of hills called Helm's Dike and behind that lied the fortr battle sequence in The Two Towers, and the Battle of the Pelennor FieldsThe Battle of the Pelennor Fields was a battle for the city of Minas Tirith in J. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings''. After the fall of Osgiliath there was no longer a barrier against the forces of Mordor, which moved on the Pelennor Fields before the city in The Return Of The King. Another significant contribution to the trilogy was the effort and technology applied to render Gollum, a hobbit-related creature corrupted and deformed by the power of the One Ring, very realistically using a combination of motion capture and key frame animation.
Other movies that were worked on by Weta Digital were Robert Zemeckis's Contact ( 1997), starring Jodie Foster, and Alex Proyas's I, Robot ( 2004), starring Will Smith.