{"id":991,"date":"2007-02-27T00:22:31","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T05:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=991"},"modified":"2007-02-27T00:23:49","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T05:23:49","slug":"building-edoras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Building Edoras"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quick note: I re-worked the last panel of the most recent comic<\/a>. I don’t even know if anyone will notice, but I just in case you do: No, you’re not going crazy, it was changed.<\/p>\n

But while I was looking at that last panel I was struck by the sight of Edoras:<\/p>\n

Edoras, Lord of the Rings<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

They really built that town. It wasn’t made with CGI. What amazes me is that they did it so that it can withstand a wide shot like this. Where are the tracks from the construction vehicles? Heck, just the people traveling to the site on a regular basis should have left a visible scar. I can only assume that stuff is on the other side of the hill, along with the trucks of food, mobile shelter, transport, generators, equipment, crew, and all of the other stuff needed to support all of the extras in that shot. <\/p>\n

This place is in the middle of nowhere. I know the main actors probably got there via helicopter, but a helicopter didn’t bring all<\/em> of those people, and they didn’t walk. They didn’t come by bus, because there aren’t any roads. <\/p>\n

It really is amazing the millions of dollars that were spent on making that minute or so of footage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quick note: I re-worked the last panel of the most recent comic. I don’t even know if anyone will notice, but I just in case you do: No, you’re not going crazy, it was changed. But while I was looking at that last panel I was struck by the sight of Edoras: They really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}