Academy Award-winner Joe Letteri and Weta Digital have signed on to create visual effects, creatures and digital environments for James Cameron's much-anticipated next picture, AVATAR, which was previously known as PROJECT 880.
"Weta has proven themselves a leader in visionary effects, especially in the area of performance capture-based character animation, which is a big part of my new film," said writer/director Cameron. "Along with their world-class capability comes a genuine passion to blaze new trails and to entertain a global audience with groundbreaking techniques. I'm really looking forward to the collaboration with Joe and his team."
Academy Award-winning producer Jon Landau adds, "Weta has an incredible depth of creative talent that has continually proven their ability to create technological innovations that allow filmmakers to tell stories which could not otherwise be told. They have the unique ability to seamlessly integrate these technologies into the movie in ways that the audience never questions the reality of the cinematic presentation. We look forward to pushing Joe and his team even further down the road of photorealistic visual effects."
"AVATAR tells a new kind of story in a world we've never seen before," said Weta Digital's senior visual effects supervisor Letteri. "It demands a whole new set of filmmaking techniques. Jim is known for that kind of originality, and we're excited to be doing this film with him."
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