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| rdfs:comment | - To date, Weta Digital has won five Academy Awards for Best Visual affects.
- WETA Digital was the visual effects department behind such movies as Lord of the Rings and King Kong, collaborated with Industrial Light & Magic to create the effects for the Eragon movie.
- Weta Digital is a digital visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was founded by Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, and Jamie Selkirk in 1993 to produce the digital special effects for Heavenly Creatures. The company are working with Paramount Pictures to created The Turtles for the 2014 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and it's upcoming sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
- In May 2010 it was announced that Weta Digital would be creating CGI apes for the new Planet of the Apes reboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes, rather than using costumed actors in make-up as in previous films. Director Rupert Wyatt explained, "The other Apes films dealt with talking apes and apes that were humanoid in many ways. This film isn't about that. It's about apes as apes... We had a choice of using either live apes or CGI. Personally, I had moral problems with the idea of using chimps. And from a practical point of view it would be virtually impossible to get them to do what we need them to do within our schedule." Producer Rick Jaffa agreed: "We knew it ultimately wouldn’t be up to us, but we never thought in a million years they’d use real apes. Because in many ways, it’s an an
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| abstract | - To date, Weta Digital has won five Academy Awards for Best Visual affects.
- In May 2010 it was announced that Weta Digital would be creating CGI apes for the new Planet of the Apes reboot Rise of the Planet of the Apes, rather than using costumed actors in make-up as in previous films. Director Rupert Wyatt explained, "The other Apes films dealt with talking apes and apes that were humanoid in many ways. This film isn't about that. It's about apes as apes... We had a choice of using either live apes or CGI. Personally, I had moral problems with the idea of using chimps. And from a practical point of view it would be virtually impossible to get them to do what we need them to do within our schedule." Producer Rick Jaffa agreed: "We knew it ultimately wouldn’t be up to us, but we never thought in a million years they’d use real apes. Because in many ways, it’s an animal rights story. You’re not going to be able to get around that issue - the treatment of the animals." In fact, it was reported that Wyatt wanted to send a message to other studios that in this day of advanced computer animation, there’s no need to stress out real animals for filmmaking, and that Fox Studios was working with The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund to draw awareness to animal experimentation in labs around the world. Andy Serkis, who earlier provided the real-life movement and voice for the Weta digitally-rendered 25 foot gorilla 'Kong' in the 2005 remake of 'King Kong' and the Hobbit-like creature 'Sméagol/Gollum' in 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, both directed by Jackson, performed the same function for the film's central character, 'Caesar'. Andy Serkis filmed his role using a skin-tight CGI suit with markers allowing cameras to track and register 3D positions. The images were translated into the digital format by animators at Weta Digital studio and then edited into the movie. Location filming took place in British Columbia, Canada in July and August 2010, and the scheduled release date of August 2011 allowed the studio time to create and refine the visual effects.
- WETA Digital was the visual effects department behind such movies as Lord of the Rings and King Kong, collaborated with Industrial Light & Magic to create the effects for the Eragon movie.
- Weta Digital is a digital visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was founded by Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, and Jamie Selkirk in 1993 to produce the digital special effects for Heavenly Creatures. The company are working with Paramount Pictures to created The Turtles for the 2014 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and it's upcoming sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
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