“King Kong: “In a New York Minute”” by Weta Digital Ltd.
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Title:
- King Kong: “In a New York Minute”
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 Supervisor: Ben Snow
Pre-Visual Animation Designed and Supervised by Christian Rivers
Digital FX Supervisor: Dan Lemmon
3D CG Supervisor: R. Christopher White
Digital Compositing Supervisor: Charles Tait
Pre-Production Supervisor: Matt Aitken
Digital Producer: Cyndi Ochs
Massive Supervisor: Jon Allitt
CTO: Milton Ngan
Head of Digital Imaging: Pete Williams
Senior VFX Editor: Matt Holmes
Production Software Supervisor: Jeff Hameluck
Animation Sequence Lead: Paul Story
3D Sequence Leads: Frank Dürschinger, Mark Gee, Kenneth Gimpelson, Jake Lee, Jean Matthews, Nick McKenzie, Sergei Nevshupov, Mike Perry, Roger Shortt, Craig Wentworth
3D Lighting TDs: Michael Baltazar, Kelly Bechtle-Woods, Sam Bui, Graeme Demmocks, Jeremy Goldman, Todd Alan Harvey, Christian Hipp, Sandip Kalsy, Susie May Kleis, Matthias Menz, Keith F. Miller, Dylan Neill, Jason Schugardt, Glen Sharah, Trina M. Roy, Joyce Young
Matte Painter: Rachael Haupt
Senior Photographer: Matt Mueller
New York Researchers: Melissa Goldstein, Carrie Miller
Senior Modeler: Dave Cardwell
Digital Modelers: Michael Bain, Josh Bare, Anto Bond, Matthew Bullock, Cedric Canlas, William J. Earl, Mia Jewett, Paul Jenness, Alex Kramer, Ruth-Anne Loveridge, James Moore, Simon Millanta, James Ogle, Sujin Park, Niklas Preston, Michael Prince, Greg Sharp, Gershom Sissing, Cameron Smither, Can Tuncer, Phil Van der Reyden, Nicole Weber
Pre-Production Department Manager: Fiona Foster
Sequence Coordinators: Rebecca Downes, Virginia Wilson
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
Software Developers: Lawrence Chai, Shane Cooper, Philip Hunter, Martin Preston
VFX Editor: Lucas Putnam
Associate VFX Editor: Andy Stevens
Editorial Assistant/Projectionist: Aaron Cubis
Editorial Assistant: Hayley French