Premium: Norm Interviews Weta Digital about CG Creatures

One more video from our visit to the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes press junket! Here, Norm interviews Weta Digital’s Director, Academy Award winner Joe Letteri, and Visual Effects Supervisor Dan Lemmon about the challenges of creating photo-realistic CG characters with today’s rendering technology. Read the full text of the interview here.

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7 thoughts on “Premium: Norm Interviews Weta Digital about CG Creatures

  1. I like that there’s a sort of literal evolution here in the crossing of the uncanny valley to eventually being able to render/animate/model human expression.

  2. Great interview! While I realize this was a press junket, but it would be amazing to see a longer interview on the technical side of film making with actors/directors/artists at some point. A podcast would be perfect.

  3. I like the way Norm sets the context – telling the interviewees that we are interested in the technical aspects of movie making – and then he lets them talk.

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