Weta Digital has put out a new visual effects breakdown video that showcases the brilliant work that its digital artists did on Matt Reeves’ summer blockbuster Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In), from a screenplay penned by Mark Bomback, Scott Z. Burns, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. The cast includes: Andy Serkis (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey), Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty, Public Enemies, The Great Gatsby), Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight Rises, The Harry Potter film series), Keri Russell (The Americans, Mission Impossible III), Toby Kebbell (The Prince of Persia, Wrath of the Titans, Rock N Rolla), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In, ParaNorman), Enrique Murciano (Traffic, Black Hawk Down), Kirk Acevedo (The Thin Red Line) and Judy Greer (The Descendants, Three Kings, 13 Going on 30).
The film is also vying for the ‘Best Visual Effects’ honour at the 87th Oscars on 22 February, where it goes up against stiff competition from Industrial Light & Magic’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Double Negative’s Interstellar and Moving Picture Company’s Guardians of the Galaxy & X-Men: Days of Future Past.
The visual effects team had to create apes that were as nuanced and believable as the humans with whom they would share the screen. You can witness how they achieved the end results, a remarkable blend of technology and performance.
So if would you like to know how Weta Digital was able to make those computer-generated apes in 20th Century Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes looks so seamless? Well, just click on the video below to see all the advanced technology that was utilised to render the apes.
