King Kong
Universal Pictures - 2005
Director: Peter Jackson
Visual Effects company: Weta Digital Ltd.
Job Title: Lighting Technical Director
Academy Award Winner - Best Visual Effects - 2005
BAFTA Award Winner - Achievement in Visual Effects - 2005
Visual Effects Society Award Winner - Outstanding Visual Effects in Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture - 2005
Visual Effects Society Award Winner - Outstanding Animated Character (Kong) in a Live Action Motion Picture - 2005
Visual Effects Society Award Winner - Outstanding Environment (New York) in a Live Action Motion Picture - 2005
One of my first shot on the show and one of the last appearance of the
big guy in the movie. Probably not a big spoiler, but soon after this shot
the big ape dies. sob... sob... :(
so I was responsible for the lighting and rendering of Kong and contact
shadow solutions.
Image from the www.darkhorizon.com website.
I was mainly working on the full cg New York sequence towards the end of
the movie, so I did lighting on many cg biplanes (Helldivers) and cg digital
doubles as well. This shot is a fine example.
Interesting detail that the reference images were used to model and texture
the pilot digital doubles were taken from Peter Jackson's son.
An other good example of the airplane shots I mentioned above.
An as I mentioned before, I did lighting on Kong (that tiny dude on the top
of Empire States building) and the airplanes, and of course the city background.
(this is also a full cg shot)
One of the famous "Ann in Kong's hand" shots.
An other interesting shot of cg and miniature combination. I was responsible
for the lighting on Kong, Ann and the cg ice rink. The rest of the shot is miniature.
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