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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Official Main Trailer [HD]

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Official Main Trailer [HD]

Visual Effects of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

‘Hobbit’ Leads Visual Effects Society Feature Nominations With 7

The Hobbit: Weta returns to Middle-earth

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‘Apes’ Takes Motion Capture to New Heights

Climactic brawl is staged on imaginary skyscraper
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Weta Digital VFX Supe Dan Lemmon on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Studying Andy Serkis, Leveraging In-House Tools, and Taking Performance Capture on Location.
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The Hobbit: Interview with Animation Supervisor, Mike Cozens

Before joining the team of Weta Digital in 2006, Mike Cozens worked at Hybride on projects such as SIN CITY or 300. At Weta Digital, he worked on Avatar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, or the trilogy The Hobbit.
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Caesar Rules at the 13th Annual VES Awards

The big winner out of the competing feature films was Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, with Weta Digital’s VFX team, led by Joe Letteri, picking up the award for “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture”.
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Fight to the finish

When Weta Digital won a visual effects Oscar in 2002 for its first blockbuster film, The Lord of the Rings, it was a fledgling studio. Since then, Weta Digital artists have brought home four more Oscars, five BAFTAs, and numerous other awards and nominations.
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Weta Digital win Annie Award

Congratulations to our talented VFX team at Weta Digital led by Daniel Barrett, Paul Story, Eteuati Tema, Alessandro Bonora, and Dejan Momcilovic for their Annie Award win: Character Animation in a Live Action Film for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes!
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Barbershop at Weta: Sci-tech winner explained

Some of the most stunning recent digital hair and fur work on film - think Caesar, Maurice and hundreds of apes in the new Planet of the Apes films, Middle-earth creatures from the Hobbit trilogy, Snowy in Tintin - has come out of Weta Digital, owing in part to the studio’s Barbershop hair groom system.
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The 87th Academy Award Nominations for the 2015 Oscars

The Oscar nominations have been announced and Weta Digital is honoured to have received a Visual Effects nomination for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
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Critics’ Choice Movie Awards

The Critics’ Choice Movie Awards are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Best Visual effects went to Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies-Simulation on a Behemoth Scale

Mike Seymour takes an exclusive look at the impressive, large-scale battle sequences that Weta designed for the final installment in The Hobbit trilogy
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Bringing The Battle of the Five Armies to the screen

Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth films have heralded incredible advancements in filmmaking and visual effects technologies, particularly from Weta Digital. We break down some of the particular advancements made on this most recent adventure.
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21 Scientific and Technical Achievements to be Honored with Academy Awards®

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 21 scientific and technical achievements represented by 58 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation on Saturday, February 7, at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. Weta Digital will be recognized for their Barbershop hair grooming system.
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Weta leads Visual Effects Society nominations with ‘Apes’ and ‘Hobbit’

The Visual Effects Society has announced the nominees for its 13th Annual VES Awards. "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," leads the way with five nominations total, while Weta's other big player, "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies," isn't far behind with four.
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Weta receives two BAFTA nominations

Weta recieves two BAFTA nominations for special visual effects for 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' and 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'.
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Peter Jackson and Weta Digital Go All Out with ‘Hobbit’ Finale

Peter Jackson concludes his "Hobbit" trilogy and Tolkien six-pack with a bang, and "The Battle of the Five Armies" delivers the most impressive action of the director's career, recalling D.W. Griffith and Ray Harryhausen.
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Critics’ Choice Awards

We are very pleased to announce that both Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies have received Best Visual Effects nominations for the Critics’ Choice Awards, which will be held January 15.
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Stephen Colbert interviews a testy Smaug

EW‘s cover star and Tolkien fanatic Stephen Colbert got a rare opportunity on his show last night: He got to sit down with the Hobbit trilogy’s fearsome dragon Smaug.
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Weta Makes the Oscars’ VFX Shortlist

Weta makes the Oscars' VFX Shortlist with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Nominations will be announced Jan. 15, and the Oscars will be held Feb. 22.
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Complete list of Annie Award 2014 nominees

Weta makes the list of Annie Award 2014 nominees with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
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Weta: The masters of illusion

As the final Hobbit chapter looms, Nikki Macdonald goes behind the scenes with Weta Digital's visual effects wizards to find out how far computer animation has come since the original Gollum.
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Seven Films That Dominate the Visual Effects Oscar Race

Andy Serkis' amazing Caesar is still the one to beat. Weta Digital revamped its performance capture system, and went more photo-real by shooting outdoors under less than ideal conditions. Added detail and fidelity of performance weren’t enough: the process had to hold up to the rough elements as well as the scrutiny of IMAX 3-D, which provides further depth and dynamic composition.
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Visual Effects – Art or Science?

“Realism informs everything that we do. But there’s no way to get all of the science absolutely right. Most of it is still unknown, or can’t be solved exactly. So in the end we use artistic interpretation and instinct to make audiences believe in what they are seeing.”
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Weta Digital: Wayne Stables

Twenty years on, Weta Digital is more than holding its own in a hugely competitive and fast-moving industry. As Weta celebrates its 20th anniversary, Lynn Freeman met long-serving Visual Effects Supervisor Wayne Stables at Park Road Post to find out what's changed in VFX, and what's the hardest thing to create on screen.
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Bringing ‘magic’ to the cinema

Digital visual effects firm Weta Digital has mastered the art of motion capture technology. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout reports.
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How ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Turned Actors Into Apes

Here now is my full interview with Weta’s Dan Lemmon, in which we discuss building these digital characters, the technological advances that made it possible, the cinematography, and what the future has in store for Weta and performance capture
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‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ Tops VFX Competition at Postproduction Awards

The visual effects on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes topped last year’s Oscar winner Gravity, to win the feature VFX category at the 9th annual Hollywood Post Alliance Awards, Thursday at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
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HPA Announces 2014 Award Winners

The Hollywood Post Alliance announced its 2014 HPA Award winners at a ceremony held at the event's usual venue, the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Weta Digital's team of Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Erik Winquist, Keith Miller and Paul Story won Outstanding Visual Effects — Feature Film for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
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State of the Art: The Evolution of Weta Digital

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the special effects in #DawnofApes this Mon, 1pm, at #AFIFEST. This presentation will explore the history of how Weta Digital's artists have evolved their technology and techniques over the last 20 years and focus on an in-depth case study of the innovation in performance and effects as seen in DAWN OF THE PLANET OF APES. Panelists include Weta Digital Visual Effects Supervisor Dan Lemmon.
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New Hobbit Behind-The-Scenes Clip With Benedict Cumberbatch

If you’ve ever wondered just how much of Benedict Cumberbatch there is in Smaug, we have a Thursday treat for you. This fascinating extra from The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug’s forthcoming home-formats release pulls back the curtain on an off-set performance that’s as much physical as it is vocal.
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Weta Digital: Peter Jackson’s VFX Company is About ‘Immersive Filmmaking’

Peter Jackson has five companies in Wellington, but Weta Digital is the best known, thanks to its visual-effects breakthrough creations such as Gollum, Caesar, Smaug and the Na’vis.
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A heavenly trajectory: 20 years of Weta

Twenty years later, Aitken, now Weta Digital's visual effects supervisor, sits in the plush "reading room" in Park Road Post Production's complex in Miramar, marvelling at what two men and a single computer have transformed into.
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AEAF Award Winners Announced

The winners of the AEAF Awards 2014 have been announced at a wonderful Awards evening in central Sydney on 27 August. Weta Digital topped the Feature Films VFX list with ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ for its striking animation and compositing.
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Why Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was a triple challenge for Weta

Weta's animation supervisor Dan Barrett on why the latest in the sci-fi franchise was trickier to make than its predecessor.
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Weta Digital interview

Weta Digital Animation Supervisor Dan Barrett reveals the art of retaining and transforming mo-cap performances into believable CG apes in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes...

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DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: Dave Houghton – Compositing Supervisor

Before joining Weta Digital in 2001, Dave Houghton worked at Cinesite in London on films such as TOMORROW NEVER DIES or LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER. At Weta Digital, he worked on the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, KING KONG, AVATAR or MAN OF STEEL.
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Weta World: Empire visits The Hobbit’s VFX Team

The second part of Empire’s extended edition of The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies coverage: a visit to the hi-tech workshop of Weta Digital.
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Weta Delivers VFX for Dawn of the Planet of Apes

It’s been quite the summer for bar-raising in the visual effects arena. Among the seasonal entrants boasting convincing otherworldly visuals, is the latest installment in Fox’s rebooted Planet of the Apes series, Dawn of the Planet of Apes.
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Manuka: Weta Digital’s new Renderer

After many years as one of the world’s largest and most accomplished visual effects studios, Weta Digital began a research project that has evolved into their own full blown physically-based production renderer: Manuka.
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DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: Daniel Barrett – Animation Supervisor – Weta Digital

Daniel Barrett has worked in the animation world for nearly 10 years. He talks to The Art of VFX about his work on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Transforming Human Motion-Capture Performances Into Realistic Apes

Mike Seymour breaks down the tech behind shooting the motion-capture scenes on location versus on a sound stage for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | fxguide

We talk to Weta Digital senior visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri and visual effects supervisor Erik Winquist about Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
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Ape Acting

Dawn of Planet of Apes focuses on an ape who deals with Shakespearean issues of betrayal, family and conflict. While Rise was lead by a human cast with amazing ape effects, Dawn is an ‘ape film’, with the principal actors – the lead actors – as digital primates.
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Transforming Human Motion-Capture Performances into Realistic-Looking Apes

In the latest incarnation of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Andy Serkis and Toby Kebbell deliver human motion-capture performances to help bring the realistic apes to life. Shot with a combination of high-speed cameras, Mike Seymour breaks down the tech behind shooting the motion-capture scenes on location versus on a sound stage
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Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes: The Biggest CGI Challenges

Anyone who’s seen ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’ is agreed about one thing – the special effects are absolutely spectacular.
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VFX Supervisor Joe Letteri Talks ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ (VIDEO)

Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri of Weta Digital recently sat down with Variety features editor David Cohen to discuss the making of 20th Century Fox’s “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.”
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Andy Serkis is changing the face of film-making

Andy Serkis and his team are changing the face of film-making, using award-winning tracking technology -- and old fashioned acting chops
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - A Quantum Leap in Special FX - IGN Video

Since the last film, Weta has made huge advancements in the tech used to bring the apes to life. Learn more and see the tech in action.
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Weta Digital’s Erik Winquist Talks on ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’

Adriene Hurst at Digital Media World recently viewed an early footage presentation from the upcoming release of ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’, and talked about the project with VFX Supervisor Erik Winquist from Weta Digital.
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Masters of CG: Kevin Sherwood on dragons, dwarves and dinosaurs

Currently working on The Hobbit: The Five Armies, Weta's Kevin Sherwood reflects on a decade of change in VFX.
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ANIMATORS IN ACTION The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Weta Digital presents a peek inside the world of the animation team as they work out how to solve one of the most complicated shots in Peter Jackson's film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
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Sneak peek at the making of the primates in ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’

Check out the exclusive behind-the-scenes footage below showing split-screen comparisons of the film’s actors before and after their special-effects makeovers.

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The Posture, the Gestures, the Thoughts

“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” which opens July 11, is a 3-D filmmaking feat. A technical crew of hundreds at Weta Digital studios in New Zealand labored for a year to composite some 1,200 special effects shots
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Weta’s Animation Boss Talks About The CGI Of The Hobbit: Desolation Of Smaug

As animation supervisor at Weta Digital, Dave Clayton knows a thing or two about creating virtual worlds. To celebrate the launch of The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug on DVD and Blu-ray, we had a quick chat with Dave about some of the work he’s done with Weta.
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TODAY: Entertainment news, The Desolation of Smaug

TODAY entertainment editor Richard Wilkins meets Dave Clayton, the Australian animator behind big Hollywood blockbusters such as 'The Hobbit 2: The Desolation of Smaug',
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Interview: Dave Clayton, Animation Supervisor at Weta Digital

With The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug out now on DVD, Blu-ray and Ultraviolet, Dave dropped by the CNET offices to chat about his extensive body of work with Weta
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Weta’s Guy Williams Talks ‘Iron Man 3’ and the Coming Age of HFR

The veteran Oscar-nominated VFX supervisor discusses Marvel’s latest Iron Man saga as well as the future of high frame rate filmmaking.
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Benedict Cumberbatch Performs Mocap ‘Smaug’ in Making-Of Video (Exclusive)

Weta Digital has released a new video exclusively to The Hollywood Reporter detailing its Oscar-nominated work to create the massive dragon Smaug
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‘The Hobbit’s’ Joe Letteri is in a world of his own visual effects http://www.latimes.com/entertain

On Location: The four-time Oscar winner Joe Letteri creates the monsters and landscapes of Middle-earth in 'The Hobbit.'

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VES Announces Winners of the 12th Annual VES Awards

The VES Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture award goes to Smaug! Congratulations to our nominees and winners, and to all the artists recognized at the 2014 VESawards. Stunning work as always.
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Gollum earns Annie Award for Weta

Weta Digital has won the Annie Award for best character animation in a live action production for its work on Gollum in the first Hobbit film, An Unexpected Journey.
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Weta Digital 2014 Oscar Nominations

Oscar nominations are out. Congratulations to our nominees: Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and Guy Williams for Iron Man 3.
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Visual Effects Society Announces Nominees for the 12th Annual VES Awards

Nominees for the 12th Annual VES Awards have been announced and we are very pleased to be recognized with 9 nominations for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Man of Steel and Iron Man 3
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Nominations Announced for the EE British Academy Film Awards in 2014

The official BAFTA list of nominees for 2014 includes Weta Digital's Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds for their work on 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug', and and Guy Williams for Iron Man 3.

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19 Scientific And Technical Achievements To Be Honored With Academy Awards®

Congratulations to Peter Hillman, Martin Hill, Jon Allitt, Nick McKenzie and Areito Echevarria who have received Academy Awards for scientific and technical achievements.
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Peter Jackson, Joe Letteri, Weta Digital Tapped for PGA’s Vanguard Award

The Producers Guild of America has selected Peter Jackson, visual effects artist Joe Letteri and Weta Digital as the recipients of its 2014 Vanguard Award.
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Five things to know about scaly ‘Hobbit’ star Smaug

He's the biggest star of the movie so there was a lot that went into creating Smaug, the dragon the size of a 747 that rules over Erebor with greedy malevolence in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
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New Zealand Festival 2014

We are very proud to be partnering with the New Zealand Festival to bring Robert Lepage's 'Needles and Opium' to the stage in 2014.
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Peter Jackson’s Weta, Park Road Post Earn 3D Awards for ‘Avatar,’ ‘Hobbit’ Work

Weta Digital is among the honorees at the International 3D & Advanced Imaging Society’s 5th annual 3D Technology Awards.
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Mutant Gaijin: The Making of The Wolverine

Trevor Hogg chats with visual effects supervisor Martin Hill about Weta's work on The Wolverine.
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De-Age vfx: fxphd Prof Tahl Niran breaks down The Wolverine

When fxguide recently covered the visual effects of The Wolverine, we marveled at the transition shots of Yashida from an old man to his younger self in the film’s final confrontation completed by Weta Digital.
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Australian Effects & Animation Festival 2013 Celebrates Winners

Finalists and winners of the 2013 Australian Effects & Animation Festival have been announced. Congratulations to our VFX team on The Hobbit for their success at this years AEAF awards.
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Man of Steel; Dan Lemmon

Dan Lemmon, ‪VFX‬ Supervisor at Weta Digital talks about the new version of Krypton for Man of Steel and more.
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Claws and effects: The Wolverine

A dramatic train-top fight, a CG Silver Samurai and, of course, Wolverine’s claws. See breakdowns of some of the major shots, sequences and previs work in the film from Weta Digital and other VFX houses.

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Fight & Flight: The Making of Man of Steel

Trevor Hogg chats with the VFX Supervisors on Man of Steel, including Weta Digital's Dan Lemmon about the creation of Krypton.
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‘The Avengers’ is big winner at Saturn Awards. See full list here!

The Avengers was the big winner at the 39th Annual Saturn Awards, taking home several trophies including Best Special Effects (Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, Dan Sudick).
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Man of Steel vfx milestones

Act I of the film takes place on Krypton, facing destruction from an instable core. Weta Digital created alien planet environments, creatures and also the key means of display – a technology the filmmakers came to call ‘liquid geo’ meaning liquid geometry.
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fxpodcast #251: Man of Steel and the tech of Krypton

Mike Seymour chats to Weta Digital visual effects supervisor Dan Lemmon about Zack Synder’s Man of Steel. Weta handled scenes on Superman’s home planet of Krypton, including the unique digital communication ‘liquid geo’ displays.
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Art of VFX - Iron Man 3

VFX Supervisor Guy Williams & Animation Supervisor Aaron Gilman talk about their work on Iron Man 3
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Go To Black: The Making of Iron Man 3

We needed a powerhouse company that could take on the volume of work and be able to work on it with a huge talent pool to get the work done. Weta Digital proved to be the answer.
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Iron Man 3: more suits to play with

Over 500 shots, Weta Digital handled the epic sea port finale featuring 36 Ironman suits battling an army of superhuman mercenaries

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The science of Spherical Harmonics at Weta Digital

fxguide explains the science of Spherical Harmonics and the amazing way Weta Digital is pushing its use in production rendering.
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Weta Digital at FMX 2013 : VFX for Iron Man 3

Weta Digital is proud to once again be a partner and participant at FMX. Be sure to check out Weta Digital's Iron Man 3 presentation by Guy Williams and Aaron Gilman which will shed light on 36 different Iron Man suits, the seaport environment building and more.

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Science of Light Diffusion Brings Gollum to Life

Since Weta Digital pioneered subsurface scattering, nearly every digital character has been aided by this technique. But despite its achievements, subsurface scattering is still evolving.
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OpenEXR 2.0 goes Deep

ILM and Weta Digital announce the release of OpenEXR 2.0, the major version update of the open source high dynamic range file format.
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Of Gollum and Wargs and Goblins, Oh My!

Computer Graphics World discovers how artists at Weta Digital created hundreds of CG characters and creatures for the Hobbit
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey leads the nominations for the 39th Annual Saturn Awards.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is the leading film with nominations for the prestigious Saturn Awards. Peter Jackson’s return to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth received 9 nominations.
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‘The Hobbit’: Weta’s ongoing quest for the digital face of the future

EW caught up with Joe Letteri to talk about the changing face of digital effects and its unexpected journey toward the spiritual center of acting craft. Also, check out a new sizzle reel of The Hobbit.
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Joe Letteri’s Visual Effects for The Hobbit

After the release of 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey', I spoke with Letteri about his latest trip to Middle-earth for which he has now been recognized with a seventh Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects.
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‘Hobbit’ FX wiz Joe Letteri on Gollum, the Goblin King and Azog

The visual effects world has never been the glamorous side of Hollywood, but the artists at Weta Digital charged with creating the grotesque Goblin King in “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” surely have the best claim to hard labor in this year’s Oscar race.
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Sci-Tech Oscars: technical coolness

For their foundational research in the creation of computer-generated characters, J.P. Lewis, Matt Cordner and Nickson Fong will receive a Technical Achievement Award (Academy Certificate) for the invention and publication of the Pose Space Deformation (PSD) technique.
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Weta Digital’s Tissue system: fxguide

fxguide talks with two Weta Digital artists who will this year be the recipients of a Sci-Tech award for Weta's Tissue physically-based character sim framework
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Weta Digital Oscar Nominations

Oscar nominations are out and Weta Digital has secured 3 for the Visual Effects Oscar! Congratulations to our nominees: Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Guy Williams for The Avengers and Martin Hill for Prometheus.

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The Official BAFTA List of Nominees for 2013

The official BAFTA list of nominees for 2013 includes Weta Digitals' Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White for their work on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
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Academy announces 9 Sci-Tech winners

Academy announces 9 Sci-Tech winners including Weta Digitals' J.P. Lewis for the invention and publication of the Pose Space Deformation technique, and Simon Clutterbuck and James Jacobs for the development of the Tissue Physically–Based Character Simulation Framework.
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The Hobbit: Interview with VFX Supervisor Joe Letteri

Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Joe Letteri talks about Weta Digital's VFX work on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
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2012 Hollywood Post Alliance Awards Announce Nominees

Weta Digital has two nominations in the 2012 Hollywood Post Alliance Awards for Outstanding Compositing on The Avengers and Prometheus.
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Making Avengers like child play

The film’s Wellington-based visual effects supervisor Guy Williams has worked on a number of big-budget flicks including Avatar, King Kong and XMen: The Last Stand, but says The Avengers was the kind of project that is less work and more play.
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Weta’s Matthias Menz on new trends in CG lighting

For 2011’s The Adventures of Tintin, Weta moved towards a model of CG lighting informed by traditional cinematography and visual art. We caught up with Matthias Menz to discuss.
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Massey and Weta join forces

Massey University vets have had a taste of Hollywood working with Weta Digital on constructing a believable horse for the big screen.
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The Daily Exclusive: Alien anatomy

Breaking down the Engineer's breakdown in 'Prometheus'
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