HitFix talks to visual effects supervisors Joe Letteri and Dan Lemmon about their work on “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.”
Weta wizards describe the progression from 'Rise' to 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'
Posted by gerardkennedy · 3:17 pm · January 5th, 2015
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How Weta Digital pushed the FX envelope over the 13-year Middle Earth saga
Posted by gerardkennedy · 1:54 pm · December 25th, 2014
HitFix chats with Weta visual effects supervisors Joe Letteri and Eric Saindon about the bittersweet close to Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth saga, “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.”
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Peter Jackson honored by Producers' Guild for visual effects work
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:58 pm · November 11th, 2013
Peter Jackson and his fellow director at Weta Digital, pioneering visual effects artist Joe Letteri, are being honored by the Producers’ Guild of America for their technological achievements. They will receive the anguard Award, previous presented to the likes of George Lucas and James Cameron.
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Joe Letteri and Andy Serkis on the progression of performance capture in 'Apes' and 'Tintin'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:27 pm · December 22nd, 2011
In 2011, New Zealand-based visual effects company Weta Digital was at it again with another banner year in the CG filmmaking landscape, perhaps the company’s biggest year to date. At the forefront were visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri, director of Weta Digital, and actor Andy Serkis, steward of the performance capture form and the face for a technology that could potentially, at some point, become a standardized tool in the filmmaker’s arsenal.
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