“King Kong” by Weta Digital Ltd.

Conference:

• SIGGRAPH 2006
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Title:

King Kong

Company / Institution / Agency:

• Weta Digital Ltd.

Additional Contributors:

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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