How this Utah filmmaker created the wild block world of ‘A Minecraft Movie,’ capturing an ‘epic, ridiculous quest’
Utah filmmaker Jared Hess, who directed "Napoleon Dynamite," takes on his first big-budget special effects movie with "A ...
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The First Social Media Reviews To A Minecraft Movie Are In--Here's What People Are Saying
A Minecraft Movie arrives in theaters this weekend, but the first reactions to the video game movie have arrived online.
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WaterTower Music Releases A Minecraft Movie (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
WaterTower Music is thrilled to announce the release of A Minecraft Movie (Original Motion Picture ... the “Borat” films), Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Dan Lemmon (“The Jungle Book ...
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What Does the ‘Planet of the Apes’ Franchise Have to Do to Win a VFX Oscar?
Then last month, the film, with work led by VFX supervisor Erik Winquist and Weta FX, won the top Visual ... In all three instances, the movie was nominated for the VFX Oscar but failed to collect ...
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‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Takes Top VFX Society Award; ‘Dune 2’ Claims Three Trophies as VES Spreads the Wealth
In “Kingdom,” VFX studio Weta FX led by its production VFX supervisor Erik Winquist worked to advance the realism of its emotive apes in areas such as facial animation and muscle simulation ...
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‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Team on Weta FX’s Latest Tech and the Most Challenging Sequences
At the heart of it all was VFX house Wētā, which had a crew of over ... As for working with Winquist and Weta’s technology, Ball says, “There are CG horses standing next to real ones and ...