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TIL To create the battles for Lord of the Rings, Weta used a program called MASSIVE & was able to create thousands of CG soldiers, give them artificial intelligence, talents, and skills, then just let them fight. The AI worked so well that some of the soldiers assessed the battle and fled.

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