“The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” by Jackson
Conference:
Title:
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Length:
- 3:40
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Weta Digital Ltd.
Description:
From Tolkien’s imagination to your screen via Weta Digital Ltd, Academy Award winning visual effects facility.
Additional Contributors:
Digital Visual Effects Designed and Created by Weta Digital Ltd Wellington, New Zealand
Visual Effects Supervisor: Joe Letteri
Visual Effects Producer: Eileen Moran
Animation Designed & Supervised by Randall William Cook
VFX Cinematographer: Brian Van’t Hul
Software Development Supervisor: Richard Addison-Wood
Digital Models Supervisor: Matt Aitken
Animation Supervisor : Richard Baneham
Creature Supervisor: Eric Saindon
Animation Department Head: Adam Valdez
2D Supervisor: John P. Nugent
Digital Systems Architect: Jon Labrie
Massive Crowd Supervisor: Jon Allitt
Chief Technical Officer: Scott Houston
Senior Animators: Brad Booker, Stephen A. Buckley, Andrew Calder, Benjamin Cinelli, Melanie Cordan, Patricia A. Hannaway, Scott Holmes, Steven Hornby, Keith Huggins, Heather Knight, Matt Logue, Chad Moffitt, Mike Murphy, Carlos Rosas, Atsushi Sato, Jason Schleifer, Mike Stevens, Paul Story, Mary Victoria
Animators: Elisabeth Arko, Paul Charisse, Richard Dexter, Adam Dotson, Oliver Exmundo, Avi Goodman, Christopher Hatala, Linda Johnson, Ken Keys, Ken ‘Satchel’ King, Matt Majers, Michelle Meeker, Justin Mettam, Richard Moore, Annabel Page, Shane Prigmore, Tim Rowlandson, Dan Smiczek, Scott Smith
3D Sequence Lead TD’s: Cory Bedwell, Greg Butler, Geoff Harvey, Gray Horsfield, Dan Lemmon, Seth Lippman, Ken McGaugh, Kevin Smith, Wayne ‘Taz’ Stables, Mark Tait, Guy Williams
3D Lead TD’s: Kiki Candela, Stephen Coren, Steve Demers, Colin Doncaster, Mike Perry, Theresa Rygiel, Brian Samuels, Chu Tang, Colin Alway, Julian Bryant, G.G. Heitmann Demers, Katie Hecker, David Houghton-Williams, Alex Lemke, Mark Tait Lewis, Saki Mitchell, Lisa (Elizabeth) Moore, Alfred Murrle, Charles Tait, Patrick Bergeron
Senior Compositors: Jonathan Bowen, Sonia Calvert, Craig Clarke, Paul Conway, Jason Greenblum, Paul ‘Krusty’ Kirwan, Laure Lacroix, Keith MacGowan, Fred Place, Tom Proctor, Matt Welford, Klaus Wuchta
Compositors: Holly Acton, Chris Burn, Norman Cates, Dan Cobbett, Kelly Fischer, Moritz Glaesle, Laura Hanigan, Roger Huynh, Claire Inglis, Jeff A. Johnson, Matt Kelly, Jolene McCaffrey, Samantha McGee, Michael F. Miller, Tor-Bjorn Olsson, Michael Pecchia, Donny Rausch, Marc Dominic Rienzo, Campbell Rose, Karim Sahai, Tomoko Shin, Guerdon Trueblood, Deborah Wagner, Erik Winquist
VFX Plate Supervisor: Isengard Sequence: James E. Price
Lead Environment TD’s: Hiroaki Muramoto, Imery Watson
Color Timer: Mel Kangleon
Creatures Department Head: Dana Peters
Senior Creature TD’s: John Feather, Felix Balbas
Digital Modellers: Kyla Bendall, Sam Bui, Andrew Camenisch, Dave Cardwell, Glen Christie, Tibor Madjar, James Ogle, Robert O’Neill
Creature TD’s: Julian Butler, Bradford deCaussin, Briana Hamilton, Sven Jensen, Louis Lefebvre, Eric Leven, Jeff Martin, Andrea Merlo, Patricia Pawlak, Steve Preeg, David Scott, Steve Unterfranz
Texture Painters: Peter Baustaedter, Darren Bedwell, Paul Campion, Mel James, Jennifer Jung Kim, Dmitri Krasnokoutski, Sergei Nevshupov, Lance Powell, Lopsie Schwartz, Hillary Yeo Tze Ann
Massive Crowd TD’s: John Haley, Joosten Kuypers, Ollie Rankin, Geoff Tobin, Lisa Wild, Lila Veseley
Motion Capture Supervisor: Remington Scott
MOCAP Combat Choreographers: Carrie Thiel & Sharon James
MOCAP Technician: James Van Der Reyden
MOCAP TD: Mark Schaefer & John Curtis
Motion Editor Lead: Sandra Warren
MOCAP Prop Design: Frank Cowlrick
Motion Editors: Patrick Runyon, Robin Akin, Iwan Scheer, Brad Clark, Delphine Buratti, Alastair Macleod, Bassim Haddad, Kevin Cushing
Senior Camera TD’s: Lee Bramwell, Jake Lee, Sean Mathiesen, Tim McCallum, Matt Mueller, Stephan Remstedt
Camera TD’s /On-Set Technicians: Malcolm Angell, Erina Fon, Eric Gambini, Richard Hopkins, Alexander Kramer, Nic Marrison, Brian McMillin, Dale Pugh, Shaun Scott, Albrecht Steinmetz, Daniel Story
SOFTWARE
Senior Software Developer: Jeff Hameluck
Software Developers: Martin Preston, Philip Hunter
Software Engineer: Bret Hughes
2D Software Developer: Shane Cooper
Pipeline Engineer: Remy Torre
Senior Paint & Roto Artists: David Brunette, Jim Croasdale, Brett Dix, Quentin Hema, Alex Mein Smith, Barry Metin, George Edwin Oliver Jr., Helen Paul, Emrys Plaisted, David Swift, Kara Vandeleur, Phil Van Der Reyden, Christine Watkins, Doug Wright
Paint & Roto Artists: Paula Bell, Hans Butler, Marie Campbell, Sergei Koudriavtsev, Jacob Luamanuvae, Jeanette Lask, Karin Last, Letia Lewis, Lauren Morimoto, Sarah Rausch, Nicole Samarron, Joyce Young
PRODUCTION
Production Manager: Robin Saxen
Head of Facilities: Suzanne Labrie
Sequence Coordinators: Cheryl Kerr, Cyndi Ochs, Sandy Coco Taylor, Marvyn Young, Naomi Bowden
Production Accountant: Steve Bayliss
Recruitment/Publicity: Leslie Oliver
Human Resources Managers: Rachel Thompson, Susan Cuthbert
Facility Manager: Kim Rickard
Animation Coordinators: Fiona Foster, Monica Singh Haley
Schedule Coordinator: Genevieve McMahon
Facilities Coordinator: Hannah Clarke
3D Department Coordinator: Susie Kleis
Housing Coordinator: Jacqui Pryor
2D Department Coordinator: Steven McKendry
Facilities Technician: Mike Gunn
R&D/Post Production Coordinator: Kevin L. Sherwood
Assistant to Production: Ema Pomare, Troy Ramsey
MOCAP/Massive Coordinator: Mahria Sangster
Accounts Assistants: Heather Kinaston Smith, Donyale Hema
Matte Painting Coordinator: Annie Taunga
Human Resources Assistant: Cathy Adams
Digital Resource Manager: Adrian Samuels
Digital Resource Wrangler: Roland Watson
Production Runners: Mia Askew, Jacob Botting, Laura Callaghan, Paul Everitt, Kathryn Horton, Luaan Ruaine, Rodney Tervoort, Michael Wallis
VFX Editor: Matt ‘mad-e’ Holmes
1st Assistant Editor: Lucas Putnam
2nd Assistant Editor: Martin Simcock
Scanning Coordinator: Jade Lorier
Editorial Assistant: Jessica Cowley
Head of Digital Imaging: Pete Williams
Digital Imaging Engineer: Roman Gadner
Scan & Record Supervisor: Nick Booth
Scan & Record Technicians: Brad Selkirk, Mohan Ramachandran
IT DEPARTMENT
Digital Operations Manager: Milton Ngan
Technical Support: Katherine Hurst, Malcolm Aitchison, Ben Hall, Tim Ward, Geoff Hadfield
Technical Support Manager: Rebecca Downes
Systems Manager: Shane McEwan
System Administrators: Evan John Fraser, Paul Gunn, James Millington, Niklas Preston, Glen Sharah
Wrangler Lead: Marco Vidaurre
Render Wranglers: Loren Brookes, Aaron Caskey, David Howes, Tristan McMahon, Michael O’Neill
Technical Support Leads: Campbell Taylor Fairweather, Campbell “Sasquatch” March
System Coders: David Gilligan, Ben Britton, Svend Andersen
Data Wranglers: Graeme Demmocks, Ed Wilkie, Murray Nuttall
IT Coordinators: Ann Cloet, Alexandra Cook
Visual FX Producer R&D/PRE: Charlie McClellan
Digital FX Supervisor R&D/PRE: John Sheils
Assistant to R&D VFX Producer: Lisa Josephs
Production Manager R&D/PRE: Albert Mason
