King Kong Footage

Wow, awesome, I had no idea there was production videos up on that site. Im gonna sit here and watch them all over and over /filmbuff
 
Pretty cool. Very short, but pretty cool all the same. How annoying are the husky voices in movie trailers though?
 
craig said:
Pretty cool. Very short, but pretty cool all the same. How annoying are the husky voices in movie trailers though?
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I love that voice....

Movie preview guy said:
One man, one decision, one.... desire.
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Who are these WETA people anyway? I know they did LOTR, right? Are they anything to do with Peter Jackson whatsoever, or is he the only director that seems to employ them? If not, what else have they been involved in?
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta_Workshop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta_Digital

Weta Workshop is a physical effects company based in Miramar, New Zealand, producing effects for television and film. Founded in 1986 by Richard Taylor and others, it has produced creatures and makedown effects for the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess and effects for films such as Meet The Feebles and Heavenly Creatures. A digital division, Weta Digital, was formed in 1993.

Weta Workshop's output came to worldwide prominence with director Peter Jackson's film trilogy The Lord Of The Rings, producing sets, costumes, armour, weapons, creatures and miniatures.
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Weta Digital is a digital special effects company based in Miramar, New Zealand, an offshoot of the Weta Workshop physical effects company. Director Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor and others founded Weta Digital in 1993 to produce the digital special effects for Heavenly Creatures, working with just one computer on that film. The company has grown immensely in size and complexity since then. Their most powerful computer is listed at #101 at Top500 for November, 2004.
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StardogChampion said:
Who are these WETA people anyway? I know they did LOTR, right? Are they anything to do with Peter Jackson whatsoever, or is he the only director that seems to employ them? If not, what else have they been involved in?
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Weta is owned by Peter Jackson yes, but when he's not using them they can be out-sourced to work on other movies. Weta did the visual effects for Master and Commander.

These kongisking.net video's are getting onto my favourite part now :p Visual Effects!
 
Weta also did Chronicles Of Narnia. Weta is the best sfx company in the world, or at least one of them, on the same levels as "Industrial Light & Magic" I would think :)
 
Burn said:
Weta also did Chronicles Of Narnia. Weta is the best sfx company in the world, or at least one of them, on the same levels as "Industrial Light & Magic" I would think :)
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Weta is still a young company though and I think they have more passion for the job than ILM. ILM just churns out movie after movie now, no matter how crap the movie is.
 
I thought the visual effects were poor in some places. Still looks like a wondeful film though :D
 
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