“King Kong” by Weta Digital Ltd.

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    King Kong

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  • Weta Digital Ltd.

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    Digital Visual Effects Designed and Created by Weta Digital Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand
    Senior Visual Effects Supervisor: Joe Letteri
    Visual Effects Producer: Eileen Moran
    Visual Effects Supervisors: Ben Snow, Scott E Anderson, George Murphy
    Kong Animation Designed and Supervised by Christian Rivers
    Animation Designed and Supervised by Eric Leighton
    Digital FX Supervisors: Eric Saindon, Dan Lemmon
    3D CG Supervisors: R. Christopher White, Guy Williams, Christopher Jon Horvath, Simon Clutterbuck
    Digital Compositing Supervisors: Mark Tait Lewis, Charles Tait, Erik Winquist
    Pre-Production CG Supervisor: Matt Aitken
    Digital Producer: Cyndi Ochs
    Art Director: Michael Pangrazio
    Massive Supervisor: Jon Allitt
    Creature Supervisor: Dana Peters
    Digital Destruction Supervisor: Gray Horsfield
    Camera Supervisor: Lee Bramwell
    Chief Technical Officer: Milton Ngan
    Head of Digital Imaging: Pete Williams
    Senior VFX Editor: Matt Holmes
    Special Projects Supervisor: Mark Sagar
    Software Development Supervisor: Richard Addison-Wood
    Production Software Supervisor: Jeff Hameluck
    Motion Capture Supervisor: Dejan Momcilovic
    Paint & Roto Supervisors: Sandy Houston, Quentin Hema
    Production Managers: Kevin Lee Sherwood, Marvyn Young
    Previsual Animation Designed and Supervised by Christian Rivers
    Animation Supervisor: Atsushi Sato
    Animation Sequence Leads: Jamie Beard, Andrew Calder, David Clayton, Richard Frances-Moore, Dietrich Hasse, Paul Story
    Senior Animators: Elisabeth Arko, Alvise Avati, Stephen Buckley, Oliver Exmundo, Joe Han, Christopher Hatala, Keith Huggins, Mike Leonard, Chad Moffitt, Jakub Pistecky, Eric C. Reynolds, Jason Snyman, John Sore, Mike Stevens, Greg Towner, Dennis Yoo
    Animators: James Bennett, Graham Binding, Jeremy Bolan, Samati Boonchitsitsak, Alex Burt, Josh Cooper, Frederic Cote, Robb Denovan, Richard Dexter, Joel Fletcher, Ben Forster, Kameron Gates, Aron Hatfield, Traci Horie, Wayne Howe, Victor Huang, Patrick Kalyn, Ronny Kim, Nadine Lavoie, Staffan Linder, Randy Link, Sophie Lodge, Robyn Luckham, Joel Meire, Bill E. Miller, Gwilym Morris, Brett Purmal, Matthew Riordan, Kenny Roy, Kristin Solid, Jon Turburfield, Don Waller, George Y.S. Wong
    Animation Technical Supervisor: Shawn Dunn
    Animation TDs: William Dwelly, Martin Kumor, Christopher Otto Gallagher
    Animation Department Managers: Clare Burgess, Cheryl Kerr
    3D Sequence Leads: Frank Dürschinger, Mark Gee, Kenneth Gimpelson, Mikael Hakansson, Martin Hill, Joe Jackman, Scott Kilburn, Jake Lee, Jean Matthews, Nick McKenzie, Sergei Nevshupov, Jane S. O’Callaghan, Mike Perry, Roger Shortt, Mark Tait, Ben Thompson, Craig Wentworth, David Weitzberg
    3D Lighting Leads: Cory Bedwell, Chris George, Todd Alan Harvey, Sandip Kalsy, Miae Kang, Matthias Menz, Jean-Colas Prunier, Brian Samuels, Gaku Tada, Hanzhi Tang
    3D Lighting TDs: Michael Baltazar, Kelly Bechtle-Woods, Philip Borg, Sam Bui, Graeme Demmocks, Patrick Felgueras, Robert A.D. Frick, David Gould, Michael Grobe, Anne Hall, Christopher Hamilton, Christian Hipp, Katherine Hurst, Jeff A. Johnson, Tim Ketzer, Balazs Kiss, Susie May Kleis, Mike Lemmon, Aron Makkai, Tom Mikota, Keith F. Miller, Daryl Munton, Dylan Neill, Carlos-Christian Nickel, Jennifer Nona, Paul George Palop, Jae Wook Park, Trina M. Roy, Mahria Sangster, Jason Schugardt, Glen Sharah, Vincent Thomas, Andrew Titcomb, Ben Toogood, Andres Vitale, Nancy S. Wallis, Joyce Young
    3D Digital Destruction TDs: Buckley Collum, Rob Conn, Mark Davies, Zachary Franks, Hiroaki Muramoto, Alex Nowotny, Alireza Razmpoosh, Kawaldeep Singh
    Lead Digital Water TD: Kevin Romond
    3D Digital Water TDs: Allen Hemberger, Jason Lazaroff, Michael Root, Chris Young
    Shader Writer: Chu M. Tang
    Colour Timer: Joerg W. Bungert
    Assistant TDs: Alexandra Kirchdoerfer, Christine Penn, Mark Evans, Joe Ardent
    Compositing Sequence Leads: Johan Aberg, Colin Alway, Sonia Calvert, Norman Cates, Paul Conway, Areito Echevarria, G.G. Heitmann, David Houghton, Saki Mitchell, Frank Rüter, Stefano Trivelli, Matt Welford
    2D Lead Compositors: Jean-Luc Azzis, Lyse Beck, Simon Jung, Laure Lacroix, Phillip Leonhardt, Alfred Murrle, Karim Sahai, Klaus Wuchta
    Compositors: Holly Acton, Timothy Baier, Richard Bain, Joel Behrens, John RA Benson, Niki Bern, Håkan Blomdahl, David Brunette, Julian Bryant, Warwick Campbell, Ean Carr, Peter Connelly, Steve Cronin, Gareth Dinneen, Brett Dix, Yann-Angele Doray, Christina Drahos, Erich Eder, Aidan Fraser, Bill Gilman, Moritz Glaesle, Julian Gnass, Geoff Hadfield, Bruce Harris, Ed Hawkins, Jennifer Herbert, Tim Hey, Nicholas Hodgkinson, Matt Holland, Suzanne Jandu, Kory Juul, Matt Kasmir, Kirsty Lamb, Cam Langs, Michael Lanzensberger, Doug Larmour, Kimberly Lashbrook, Jessica Laszlo, Thomas Loeder, Natalie MacDonald, Keith MacGowan, Scott Marriott, Steve McGee, Steve McGillen, Adam McInnes, Chad Meire, Ben Morgan, Jeremy Nelligan, Torbjorn Olsson, Helen Paul, Hannah Peirce, Edward Plant, Darren Poe, Kelly Port, Glen Pratt, Mark Richardson, Sandra Roach, Christoph Salzmann, Olivier P. Sarda, Caterina Schiffers, David Schnee, Florian Schroeder, Martin Simcock, Cameron Smith, Tamara Stone, John Swinnerton, Guerdon S. Trueblood, Matthew Wallin, Christian Wieser
    Assistant Compositors –Senior Paint Artists: Doug Cram, Paul Redican, Hamish Schumacher
    2D Compositing Department Manager: Kathryn Horton
    Art Department Manager: Hannah Bianchini
    Matte Painters: Peter Baustaedter, Christian Haley, Rachael Haupt, Mathieu Raynault
    Senior Photographer: Matt Mueller
    Reference Photographer: Iva Lenard
    Sky Photographer: Guy Robinson
    New York Researcher: Melissa Goldstein
    Research Librarian: Carrie Miller
    Creature FX Art Director: Gino Acevedo
    Kong Facial Setup Lead: Andrew Camenisch
    Kong Creature Lead Modeler: Tibor Madjar
    Fur Software Developer: Martin Preston
    Kong Fur Groom Leads: Jeremy Goldman, David Ostler
    Senior Modelers: Dave Cardwell, Florian Fernandez, Pascal Raimbault, Marco Revelant, Jeff Unay
    Digital Modelers: Josh Bare, Adrian Bell, Anto Bond, Matthew Bullock, Cedric Canlas, Marco Di Lucca, William J. Earl, Roderick Fransham, Paul Jenness, Mia Jewett, Alex Kramer, Andrew Kunzel, Ruth-Anne Loveridge, Simon Millanta, Kaori Miyazawa, James Moore, James Ogle, Stephane Paris, Sujin Park, Niklas Preston, Michael Prince, Richard Raimbault, Greg Sharp, Gershom Sissing, Cameron Smither, Justin Steel, Peter Syomka, Can Tuncer, Phil Van der Reyden, Jon Veal, Nicole Weber
    Lead Creature TDs: Julian Butler, Rudy Grossman, Andrea Merlo, Steve Preeg, Eric Tang
    Creature TDs: Christine Arboit, Dugan Beach, Fernando Borges-Pacheco, Glen Christie, Michael Corcoran, Emanuel Druckmann, Briana Hamilton, James Jacobs, Lars Johansson, Florian Linner, Tim McCallum, Eric Petey, Aaron Pfau, Jens Schwarz, Adam Glendon Sidwell, Marco Vidaurre
    Pre-Production Department Manager: Fiona Foster
    Lead Texture Painters: Simeon Duncombe, Mykola Gabchenko, Mel James, Dmitri Krasnokoutski, Hillary Yeo
    Texture Painters: Belinda Allen, Mia Askew, Ned Barraud, Kyla Bendall, Jennifer Bloomfield, Hyeseung Nam Cardwell, Jessica Cowley, Francis Hsu, Mathias Larserud, Mark Miller, Natalia Nevshupova, Lorraine Reen, Anne Ritter, Åsa Svedberg, Angela Ursillo, Kara Vandeleur, Trish Van’t Hul, Malcolm Wright
    Lead Massive TD: Geoff Tobin
    Senior Camera TDs: Richard Hopkins, Sergei Koudriavtsev, Wolfgang Niedermeier, Albrecht Steinmetz
    VFX Senior On-Set Surveyors: Malcolm Angell, Nic Marrison, Brian McMillin
    On-Set Camera TD: Eric Gambini
    VFX On-Set Surveyor: Stan Alley
    Camera TDs/Matchmovers: Michael Bain, Erik Bierens, Elisenda Faustino, Paul Flanagan, Stefan Galleithner, Christoph Gaudl, Peter Godden, Allan Torp Jensen, Oliver Kirchhoff, Lars Kramer, Gary Laurie, Kurt Nellis, Michael Sarkis, Rolf Schneider, Joe Woodward Stevenson, Denis Trutanic
    Lead Paint Artists: Paula Bell Christine Cram, Jim Croasdale, Christine Feistl, Emrys J. Plaisted, Troy Ramsey, Brad Selkirk, Petra Stueben
    Paint Artists: Stella Ampatzi, Michael Brazelton, Seth Miller, Karla Ventocilla Curby
    Lead Roto Artists: John-Michael Bills, Martin Body, Tim Cheng, Peter Demarest, Hugo Dominguez, Agnes Gould, Sandro Henriques, Arek Komorowski, David Luke, Laura Murillo, George Edwin Oliver Jr, Jennifer Scheer, Sam Stewart
    Roto Artists: Mark Bowen, Adam Bradley, Kate Burgess, Evan Christie, Paul Everitt, Danny Jones, Katya Hatice Kivilcim, David Owen, Christine Raymond, Junko Abe Schugardt, Roxanne Sutherland-Valentine
    VFX Editor: Lucas Putnam
    Associate VFX Editor: Andy Stevens
    Editorial Assistant/Projectionist: Aaron Cubis
    Editorial Assistant: Hayley French
    Scan/Record Supervisor: Nick Booth
    Scan/Record Technician: Daniel Ashton
    Scan/Recording Operator: David Hampton
    Pipeline Engineer Supervisor: Lance Lones
    Pipeline Engineers: Luca Fascione, Taisuke Tanimura
    Software Developers: Lawrence Chai, Shane Cooper, Philip Hunter
    Sequence Managers: Les Garfield Jones, Michelle V. Leigh, Sandy Coco Taylor
    Sequence Production Coordinators: Rebecca Piatek, Michelle Waitzman, Virginia C. Wilson
    Assistant to Producer: Erin Horton
    Digital Resource Manager: Adrian Samuels
    Animation Coordinator: Mike Wallis
    Texture Department Coordinator: Kelly Boak
    Motion Edit/Destruction Coordinator: Carrie Thiel
    Camera Coordinator: Becky Roberts
    Recruitment Manager: Tanya Buchanan
    Contracts Coordinator: Jacqui Gee
    Relocation Manager: Jeanne Stuart
    Relocation Coordinator: Inge Rademeyer
    Publicity and Merchandising: Danielle Birch
    Sales and Marketing: Robin Prybil
    Accountant: Steve Bayliss
    Accounts Assistant: Heather Kinaston-Smith
    Facility Manager: Mike Gunn
    Production Assistants: Laura-Jane Botting, Andrew Cochrane, Juliette Davis, Jade Lorier, Nicky Muir, Shane Rangi
    Production Runners: Teresa Barsali, James Boyce, Jonny Doig, Sally Gardiner, Ben Hatton, Kay Kienzler, Daniel Marwick, Spike Mountjoy, Gosia Piatek, Jennah Rasmussen, Richard Thurston, Matthew Webling, Sarah Wilson
    Motion Capture Department Manager/AD: Lisa Wildermoth
    Mocap Technician: John Curtis
    Mocap Studio TD: James Van der Reyden
    Mocap Stage Manager: Jacob Botting
    Mocap Production Assistant: Emily Pearce
    Motion Data Trackers: Raymond Massa, Chris Moss, Scott Owen
    Lead Motion Editors: Bassim Haddad, Tom Holzinger
    Motion Editors: Danilo Buendia, Mario De Dios Barbero, Daniel Eriksson, Graham Hudson, Luisma Lávin Peredo, CJ Markham, Klee Miller, Sverker Nordqvist, Stephan Remstedt, Iwan Peter Scheer, Ileana Stravoskiadi
    Digital Operations Manager: Adam Shand
    Wrangler Manager: Tristan McMahon
    Systems Development Manager: Tomek Piatek
    Systems Manager: Paul Gunn
    Systems Engineer: Bill Ryder
    Senior Wranglers: Joseph Wilkie, Murray Nuttall
    Database Administrator: Svend Andersen
    Macintosh Programmer: Glenn Anderson
    IT Coordinator: Teresa Shand
    Technical Support Leads: Malcolm Aitchison, John P. McMullen, Campbell Taylor-Fairweather
    System Administrators: Ben Hall, Campbell March, Tim Nicholas, Chris Winter
    Technical Support: Tom Chamberlain, Jason Grindlay, Chris Hodgetts, John Young, Kwan Wayne Yu Yee
    System Coders: Loren Brookes, Nick Shore, Jed Soane
    Render/Data Wranglers: Sindharmawan Bachtiar, Kris Bieringa, Andrew Lambert, David Lenna, Stephen Nixon, Lorenzo Pierfederici, Anna Sledkova, Stas Solodkin
    Additional Visual Effects by CafeFX, Inc.
    Asylum
    Additional VFX Production: Kim Lavery, Hannah Clarke
    Motion Capture Systems: Giant Studios, Inc
    Motion Analysis Corporation: Blastcode Developer: Helmar Gerhardt
    New York Location Scouts: Mark Waniga, Carl Bellavia, Sam Rohn
    Lightstage USC ICT Senior Supervisor: Paul Debevec
    Supervisor: Tim Hawkins

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