"produced by Revolution Studios and Walden Media, in collaboration with Beacon Pictures, and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Visual effects, which included the computer-generated imagery of the water horse (named ""Crusoe"" by Etel's character) were completed by the New Zealand-based companies Weta Digital and Weta Workshop—visual effects companies who worked with Walden Media before on the productions of ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" films. ""The Water Horse"" was released in the United States on 25 December 2007 and in the United Kingdom on 8 February 2008. It was the final film from Revolution Studios until the release of """" ten years"
"of Baynton's book ""Jane and the Dragon"". ""WotWots"" is produced by Pukeko Pictures, a production company founded by Baynton, Taylor, and Tania Rodger. Baynton's son Theo is the series' director, and his daughter Terri is one of the writers. The puppet-like WotWots characters are computer-animated over live-action footage by the Weta Workshop, the visual effects company founded by Taylor and Rodger, well known for its work on the ""Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy. Episodes are filmed on location at Auckland Zoo, Wellington Zoo and Melbourne Zoo, as well as undisclosed beach and farm regions. Since the WotWots' language consists"
"of the computer-animated razor. In August 1997, 20th Century Fox's Los Angeles-based visual effects company, VIFX, acquired majority interest in Blue Sky Studios to form a new visual effects and animation company, temporarily renamed ""Blue Sky/VIFX"". Following the studio's expansion, Blue Sky produced character animation for the films ""Alien Resurrection"" (1997), ""A Simple Wish"" (1997), ""Mousehunt"" (1997), """" (1998) and ""Fight Club"" (1999). Meanwhile, starting in 1990, Chris Wedge had been working on a short film named ""Bunny"", intended to demonstrate CGI Studio. The film revolves around a rabbit widow who is irritated by a moth. The moth subsequently leads"
"counterparts. Besides the performance capture data which were transferred directly to the computers, numerous reference cameras gave the digital artists multiple angles of each performance. A technically challenging scene was near the end of the film when the computer-generated Neytiri held the live action Jake in human form, and attention was given to the details of the shadows and reflected light between them. The lead visual effects company was Weta Digital in Wellington, New Zealand, at one point employing 900 people to work on the film. Because of the huge amount of data which needed to be stored, cataloged and"
"WotWots over live-action footage by the Weta Workshop, the visual effects company founded by Taylor and Rodger, well known for its work on the ""Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy. Kiddets Kiddets is a New Zealand children's television show which debuted in 2018 and sister series to The WotWots. Created by Martin Baynton and Richard Taylor, the series uses computer animation mixed with live-action clips to follow five inquisitive alien friends as they learn about life in their playroom. It currently consists of one series and a total of 52 eleven-minute episodes. The show follows five young alien friends called"
"commercial production assistant, which eventually led to her promotion to production manager. Moran moved from New York City to Los Angeles, California where pursued an interest in music and worked for film director, Tony Scott. She was hired by Digital Domain, a special effects firm founded and owned by film director, James Cameron. Moran received industry buzz for her digital effects work on two Budweiser television commercials featuring ants, the Budweiser Frogs, and lizards. In 2001, Moran left Digital Domain and took a position at Weta Digital, the digital effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand, which had been founded"
"corn was also flown in from Arizona. CGI supervisor Bill Millar created digital butterflies for a scene in Lana's bedroom, and all the insects Greg Arkin (Chad Donella) collected in the episode ""Metamorphosis"". Greg's insects had to be created digitally, because a green hue was needed to illustrate the kryptonite radiation in the insects. After the opening credits, the first person view of someone, later revealed to be Clark, flying through Lana's open window and into her bedroom was created digitally. The effect was accomplished with stock footage, a sound stage and computer generated imagery. Stock footage shot from a"
"Also as we were shooting in Australia there was good reason and incentives to use Australian-based companies and so Luma and Rising Sun came on board."" Principal photography on the film began on April 4, 2016, at Milford Sound in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand, and wrapped on July 19, 2016. On November 18, 2016, additional photography took place at Leavesden Studios in Hertfordshire. Effects houses Odd Studios and CreatureNFX provided the film's makeup and animatronic creature effects, respectively, while Australian-based effects house Animal Logic provided the film's digital visual effects. Approximately 30 people from CreatureNFX worked on the project"
"Animal Logic Animal Logic is an Australian animation and visual effects studio based at Fox Studios in Sydney and Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Origially established in 1991, Animal Logic has produced visual effects and animation for feature films such as ""Walking with Dinosaurs 3D"", ""The Matrix"", ""300"", the Academy Award-winning ""Happy Feet"", ""Moulin Rouge!"", """", and ""The Lego Movie"". The company was also recognized for its work as lead visual effects vendor on Baz Luhrmann’s ""The Great Gatsby"", which won Outstanding Achievement in Visual Effects at the 3rd AACTA Awards ceremony. In 1991, Zareh Nalbandian and Chris Godfrey"
"Smith who will be leaving in August to take up the position of Chief Executive Officer of Touchtech, effective on 2015-08-01. Pukeko Pictures Pukeko Pictures is a New Zealand animation studio created as a partnership between Richard Taylor and Tania Rodger, the co-founders and creative leads of Weta Workshop, and author, illustrator and children’s television producer Martin Baynton. The three first worked together on the TV series ""Jane and the Dragon"", a CGI animated series about a medieval girl and her pet dragon. Their subsequent television series ""The WotWots"" was nominated in 2012 for ""Best Animated Television Production – Preschool"""
"students were used for a day of filming in September. Altogether, filming took place in 20 cities in 14 countries. The New Zealand visual effects studio Weta Digital was initially selected to assist in creating a preview clip for the 2007 Comic-Con Convention. The studio's 100 employees later developed the visual effects for 300 of the 600 shots in the film. In total, there are more than 100 jumps in the film, and each jump was modified based on the distance and location the character(s) jumped. The jumps were developed using Nuke and Shake software; many, including those to Big"
"For James Cameron's ""Avatar"", Weta modified MASSIVE to give life to the flora and fauna on Pandora, for which the company did most of the visual effects with the four-time Academy Award winner visual effects guru, Joe Letteri, under a team led by the late Weta Digital executive and producer, Eileen Moran. Recently the company has developed their motion capture technique to be able to leave studio for shooting on location, as utilized on the film ""Rise of the Planet of the Apes"" and its sequel ""Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"". Weta Digital Weta Digital is a digital"
"special effects company Weta Workshop is involved in Magic Leap alongside Abovitz. Science fiction author Neal Stephenson joined the company in December 2014. Graeme Devine is their Chief Creative Officer & Senior VP Games, Apps and Creative Experiences. According to past versions of its website, the startup evolved from a company named ""Magic Leap Studios"" which around 2010 was working on a graphic novel and a feature film series, and in 2011 became a corporation, releasing an augmented reality app at Comic-Con that year. A November 2014 analysis by Gizmodo, based on job listings, trademark registrations and patent applications from"
"Kevin Hudson Kevin Hudson (born July 2, 1965) is an American visual effects artist and film director. Kevin Hudson is an American Filmmaker and Digital Artist who is currently part of the team at Walt Disney Animation Studios. His work can be found in some of the studio's recent biggest hits including ""Big Hero 6"", ""Zootopia"" and ""Moana"". Before making the leap into the world of Digital Effects, Kevin worked in traditional special effects on such films as Edward Scissorhands, Predator 2, and The Addams Family. His latest film, Weeds (animated short), an all-CG animation short film, marks his debut"
"software, which was honoured in 2013 with a ""Scientific and Engineering Award"" from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to make the dragon as realistic as possible. In addition, Weta Digital supervisor Joe Letteri said in an interview for ""USA Today"" that they used classic European and Asian dragons as inspirations to create Smaug. Smaug was considered one of the highlights of the second film of the series, with several critics hailing him as cinema's greatest dragon. Critics also praised the visual effects company Weta Digital and Cumberbatch's vocal and motion-capture performance for giving Smaug a fully realized"
"Ben Hawker Benjamin Joseph Hawker (born 29 November 1975) is a New Zealand film director and special effects artist. Hawker was born in Lincoln, Christchurch. He attended Killara High School in Sydney, Australia and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1995. Hawker is best known for his work in special effects as a creature and make-up effects artist, predominantly in association with Weta Workshop on ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy. Hawker has directed music videos for New Zealand musicians, Louis Baker and Thomas Oliver. His first feature film was ""Blackspot"", which was released in"
"and computer vision that has received over $500 million of venture funding. Richard Taylor (filmmaker) Sir Richard Leslie Taylor (born 1960s) is the founder, creative director and head of New Zealand film prop and special effects company Weta Workshop. Taylor is a graduate of the former Wellington Polytechnic. Peter Jackson, Taylor and his company created all of the props, costumes, prosthetics, miniatures and weaponry for Jackson's epic ""The Lord of the Rings"" film trilogy. For his work on the three films, he shared in winning four Academy Awards. This included two for """" in Make Up and Visual Effects, and"
"the ocean and a helicopter flying over the Great Wall of China), Wilson and producer Jed Wheeler began looking into creating the entire visual end of the production with 3D computer graphics. Wheeler eventually awarded the contract for the visual effects to the Kleiser-Walczak Construction Co., a firm that specializes in computer animation for movies. One major drawback that seems to have been the project's main flaw was the length of time required for creating and rendering the animation. It took twenty animators almost a full year to complete the footage based on Wilson's original intent. Wilson, who has been"
"the wings and feathers, later adjoining the body. He also scanned photos of macaw features and used Photoshop to incorporate those in the parrot's textures. In order to create Titania's statue at the Top of the Well, animator John Attard build the 3D model as a refractive metallic structure and texturized it with streaks of oxidation on her face; Attard used the Statue of Liberty as a visual reference. Programming was done on The Digital Village's own developed engine, Lifeboat. The engine was developed by programmers Sean Solle and Rik Heywood, who joined the company in January 1997. Their intention"
"building materials and architecture styles. Up to 15,000 photographs were taken with 3D scanners, while motion cameras covered downtown Chicago. As reference for the building destruction, the artists studied both the World Trade Center attacks and implosions of buildings affected by the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake in Weta's hometown of Wellington. One of the more challenging aspects for Weta was figuring out how the weight and mass of the monsters would affect the city environment and destruction. Given Weta had plenty of experience creating animated apes in ""King Kong"" and ""Rise of the Planet of the Apes"" and its sequels ""Dawn"""
"as writer and director. His Weeds (animated short) project is also the first animated short film completed within the Filmmakers Co-op at Disney Feature Animation. Kevin Hudson Kevin Hudson (born July 2, 1965) is an American visual effects artist and film director. Kevin Hudson is an American Filmmaker and Digital Artist who is currently part of the team at Walt Disney Animation Studios. His work can be found in some of the studio's recent biggest hits including ""Big Hero 6"", ""Zootopia"" and ""Moana"". Before making the leap into the world of Digital Effects, Kevin worked in traditional special effects on"
"was developed and produced for more than 3 years at Animal Logic's studios in Sydney, Australia. A team of 500+ artists, technicians, and support staff were amassed to design and develop the film. The film was conceived in 3D stereoscopic from the get-go. Animal Logic's team of artists designed, created, and animated 15 unique species of owls, as well as other forest creatures such as snakes, crows, bats, centipedes, bees, beetles, bugs, moths, a hermit crab, a Tasmanian Devil, and an echidna. The end credits sequence shows the adventures of Soren, Gylfie, Digger and Twilight as told by the young"
"Pukeko Pictures Pukeko Pictures is a New Zealand animation studio created as a partnership between Richard Taylor and Tania Rodger, the co-founders and creative leads of Weta Workshop, and author, illustrator and children’s television producer Martin Baynton. The three first worked together on the TV series ""Jane and the Dragon"", a CGI animated series about a medieval girl and her pet dragon. Their subsequent television series ""The WotWots"" was nominated in 2012 for ""Best Animated Television Production – Preschool"" in the 2012 Annie Awards. On 2015-07-30, Pukeko Pictures announced the appointment of Clive Spink as Chief Executive Officer, replacing Andrew"
"animatronics and computer-generated imagery (CGI). Special effects artist Neal Scanlan served as the film's creature effects supervisor, while Vickery and Alex Wuttke were visual effects supervisors. Scanlan worked on the animatronic dinosaurs, while Vickery and his ILM team created versions of the dinosaurs through CGI. ILM animators in Vancouver worked on dinosaur stampede scenes, while ILM's London studio created the remaining creature scenes. Approximately 52 ILM animators worked on the film. Scanlan worked closely with Bayona and Vickery to create the creatures. Vickery and ILM did extensive research to accurately create and depict the dinosaurs, which included consulting with paleontologists."
"and composites. Reel FX Creative Studios did four visual effects shots involving the pop-up book page-turn transitions while Weta Digital did two. Out of all the animals that appear in the ""Happy Working Song"" sequence, the only real animals filmed on set were rats and pigeons. The real animals captured on film aided Tippett Studio in creating CG rats and pigeons, which gave dynamic performances such as having pigeons that carried brooms in their beaks and rats that scrubbed with toothbrushes. On the other hand, all the cockroaches were CG characters. Pip, a chipmunk who can talk in the 2D"
"Wonder Workshop Wonder Workshop is an education and robotics startup based in Silicon Valley in the United States. Formerly called Play-i, Wonder Workshop ran a successful crowdfunding campaign in November 2013, where they introduced the robots Bo and Yana. They were subsequently renamed Dash and Dot before their launch in 2014. The company has currently raised $15.9 million in funding from Madrona Venture Group, CRV, WI Harper, Google Ventures, and others. Wonder Workshop introduced Dash & Dot in December 2014. They are robots targeted at teaching creative problem-solving and computational thinking. They come with four free apps compatible with iOS"
"don't want to empathize with them, you can go to town. So creatively that's what I wanted to do but story-wise, I just couldn't."" Blomkamp originally sought to have Weta Digital design the creatures, but the company was busy with effects for ""Avatar"". The director then decided to choose a Vancouver-based effects company because he anticipated making films there in the future and because British Columbia offered a tax credit. Blomkamp met with Image Engine and considered them ""a bit of a gamble"" since the company had not pursued a project as large as a feature film. Aside from the"
"Weta Digital created the majority of the effects, with additional work by Cinesite and Flash Film Works. The machines of Klaatu's people have a biological basis rather than a mechanical one, as Derrickson theorized that their mastery of ecology would demonstrate their level of sophistication. Derrickson deemed a modern audience would find the original's flying saucer amusingly obsolete and unique to the original's milieu. The director also noted that the original ""The Day the Earth Stood Still"" had influenced many films, so his technicians needed to bring new ideas to the remake. The effects team approached the new spacecraft's design"
"Intelligent Creatures Intelligent Creatures (IC) is a motion picture visual effects company located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. IC was founded in March 30, 2001 by current CEO Lon Molnar, a graduate of the Vancouver Film School, Michael Hatton, Raymond Gieringer, and Wendy Lanning, and commenced production in 2002. The company was created in response to the demands of the visual effects industry, at a time when there was a shortage of visual effects vendors in Toronto. IC's studio is located in the east end of Toronto, in close proximity to Pinewood Toronto Studios and Cinespace Film Studios. A satellite office"
"the locations depicted in the film, the forests, and the variety of landscapes. Filming in New Orleans started in May 2013 and continued in July 2013 at various locations such as the former Six Flags park Six Flags New Orleans. Like ""Rise"", visual effects for ""Dawn"" were done by Weta Digital. In addition to the apes, Weta created other digital animals, such as a herd of elk, a grizzly bear, and CG doubles of the live horses. The elk were created using key-frame animation and the digital crowd enhancement software MASSIVE, the bear through key-frame animation, and the horses with"
"as digital artist. Richard Bluff Richard Bluff is an English special effects supervisor. Known for his works in Disney's visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) as a digital matte artist and visual effects supervisor in acclaimed films such as """" (2005), ""The Island"" (2005), ""Transformers"" (2007-11), ""Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"" (2008), ""Star Trek"" (2009), ""Avatar"" (2009), ""The Avengers"" (2012), ""Cloud Atlas"" (2012) ""Pacific Rim"" (2013), ""The Big Short"" (2015) and ""Doctor Strange"" (2016), for which he received an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects nomination at the 89th Academy Awards. He previously worked"
"Illuminate Labs Illuminate Labs is a Swedish software company based in Gothenburg, founded in 2002 and specializing in video games lighting. The company produces two middleware products called Beast and Turtle, based on their ""LiquidLight"" technology. Illuminate Labs products are used by some of largest game studios in the world, such as Electronic Arts, Blizzard, Sony Computer Entertainment, Square Enix and BioWare. Illuminate Labs opened an office in San Francisco in 2009. Autodesk acquired Illuminate Labs on July 21, 2010 in San Rafael, California for an undisclosed amount. Turtle is a rendering and baking plugin for Autodesk Maya used for"
"Matte World Digital Matte World Digital was a visual effects company based in Novato, California that specialized in realistic matte painting effects and digital environments for feature films, television, electronic games and IMAX large-format productions. The company closed in 2012 after 24 years of service in the entertainment industry. The company, initially called Matte World, was co-founded in 1988 by visual effects supervisor Craig Barron, matte painter Michael Pangrazio, and producer Krystyna Demkowicz. Barron and Pangrazio had worked together at Industrial Light & Magic, starting in 1979, when they helped create the matte-effects shots for George Lucas' ""The Empire Strikes"