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2006–2009 Weta Digital · Wellington, NZ

Avatar

Lead R&D Technical Director on the Academy Award–winning effects for James Cameron's Avatar.

Lead R&D Technical Director

  • Visual Effects
  • R&D / Tools
  • Pipeline
IMDb — Avatar
Avatar (2009) · poster © 20th Century Fox.
Avatar (2009) · poster © 20th Century Fox.

Overview

James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) reset the bar for feature visual effects — a fully realized digital world in Pandora, performance-capture-driven characters, and stereoscopic photography at a scale the industry hadn’t attempted. Weta Digital delivered the bulk of those effects, work that won the Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Visual Effects.

As a Lead R&D Technical Director at Weta Digital in Wellington, New Zealand, I spent roughly three years on the production — building tools and pipeline technology used to create the film’s effects.

The Avatar crew at Weta Digital, Wellington
The Avatar crew at Weta Digital in Wellington — with one of us gone full Na’vi for the occasion.

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