The Wētā FX team has taken a raft of gongs at this year’s Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards. The NZ efffects powerhouse took out nine category wins, including:
OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER – WINNER!
Richard Baneham, Walter Garcia, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, JD Schwalm
OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER; Kiri – WINNER
Anneka Fris, Rebecca Louise Leybourne, Guillaume Francois, Jung-Rock Hwang
OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN AN EPISODE, COMMERCIAL OR REAL-TIME PROJECT
THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY; Pogo – WINNER
Aidan Martin, Hannah Dockerty, Olivier Beierlein, Miae Kang
OUTSTANDING CREATED ENVIRONMENT IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER; The Reef – WINNER
Jessica Cowley, Joe W. Churchill, Justin Stockton, Alex Nowotny
OUTSTANDING VIRTUAL CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A CG PROJECT
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER – WINNER
Richard Baneham, Dan Cox, Eric Reynolds, A.J Briones
OUTSTANDING MODEL IN A PHOTOREAL OR ANIMATED PROJECT
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER; The Sea Dragon – WINNER
Sam Sharplin, Stephan Skorepa, Ian Baker, Guillaume Francois
OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER; Water Simulations – WINNER
Johnathan M. Nixon, David Moraton, Nicolas Illingworth, David Caeiro Cebrian
OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A FEATURE
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER; Water Integration – WINNER
Sam Cole, Francois Sugny, Florian Schroeder, Jean Matthews
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AWARD
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER; Water Toolset – WINNER
Alexey Dmitrievich Stomakhin, Steve Lesser, Sven Joel Wretborn, Douglas McHaleB