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MASSIVE is the computer animation and artificial intelligence
software developed by Weta
Digital to create the award winning graphics for the Lord of the
Rings trilogy, particularly the battle sequences, in the series of films directed by New Zealander Peter
Jackson.
The program allowed every animated character in an animated army to respond individually to its surroundings. If such a
character encountered an enemy character it was programmed to fight in a specific style until it either killed the enemy and went
looking for another, or until it sustained a specific number of hits and fell down "dead".
Rumour has it that in the first execution of a
battle between groups of characters, the wrong groups attacked each other. In
another early demo, some of the warriors at the edge of the field could be seen running away. The reason was not that they were
programmed for cowardice (or survival), but that they were initially moving in the wrong direction, and had been programmed to
keep running until they encountered an enemy.
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