Page 19 - 3D World - October 2017

Making the apes look as
though they were riding
horses required the paint
team to paint in areas or
Cg horses to be created
from scratch

nswering the question “When we did Rise of the Planet we were past those hurdles. We’re War for
A of how primates came of the Apes, Caesar was being in the heart of the story and looking the Planet
of the aPes
to conquer the Earth
at what that leadership means for
created for the first time,” states
in the 1968 science- Weta Digital Senior Visual Effects Caesar within his own group and
fiction classic, Planet Supervisor Joe Letteri, who has how that plays out against the director
of the Apes, is a prequel trilogy received Oscars for his work on The remaining humans in the world.” Matt Reeves
that features Rise of the Planet of Lord of the Rings, King Kong and
the Apes (2011), Dawn of the Planet Avatar. “We were trying to walk TeChnologiCAl revoluTion country
of the Apes (2014) and War for the the line between an ape that looks In addition to the evolution of the United States
Planet of the Apes (2017). The three like an ape and an ape that starts character, Weta Digital has been
movies introduced the world to a to show leadership and human constantly adapting and developing About
genetically modified chimpanzee intelligence. We were broadening technology. Apes fight back
named Caesar who left behind his that out on Dawn of the Planet of the We’ve been pushing the technology
lab experiment origins to go on Apes. Caesar becomes the leader of to the point where it becomes the releAse dAte
to become a powerful leader. The this group of apes out on their own. same kind of tools as if you were Out now
films also propelled Weta Digital We started having to introduce the making a live-action film” notes
to the forefront of being able to idea of language and apes speaking, Joe. “When we did Rise of the Web
convey emotion through entirely and tried to keep that believable. Planet of the Apes, the techniques http://bit.
synthetic characters. On War for the Planet of the Apes, that we had for lighting fur ly/2tEQHeX