’Twas beauty killed the beast when Naomi Watts ( <i>right</i>) and her many digital doubles hooked up with Weta’s lavishly complex King Kong ( <i>above</i>).

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VFX supervisor Joe Letteri has won two Oscars, a Technical Achievement Award, and an Oscar nomination in the past three years at Weta Digital. Now, he’s doing something really big: Peter Jackson’s King Kong. We got him on the phone, a month from his deadline on Kong at Weta’s Wellington, New Zealand facilities, to talk about the new technology and techniques Weta devised to meet Kong’s many challenges.


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’Twas beauty killed the beast when
Naomi Watts and her many digital
doubles hooked up with Weta’s lavishly
complex <i>King Kong</i>.

’Twas beauty killed the beast when Naomi Watts and her many digital doubles hooked up with Weta’s lavishly complex King Kong.

VFX supervisor Joe Letteri of Weta Digital.

VFX supervisor Joe Letteri of Weta Digital.


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