WETA_FX 'AVATAR' animation
WETA FX had finally returned to Pandora, as VFX work has concurrently begun on all four of James Cameron’s “Avatar” sequels by Oscar-winning Weta Digital in New Zealand. Weta will leverage tech from “War for the Planet of the Apes” along with creating new virtual production advancements. The game-changing, box-office topping “Avatar” revolutionized live-action/virtual production in 2009, and Weta (led by Oscar-winning senior visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri) has since improved the process with “The Hobbit” and “Planet of the Apes” trilogies. Avatar 2” will be released by Fox on December 18, 2020; followed by “Avatar 3” on December 17, 2021; “Avatar 4” on December 20, 2024; and “Avatar 5” on December 19, 2025. “What Joe Letteri and Weta Digital bring to these stories is impossible to quantify,” said Cameron in a statement. “Since we made ‘Avatar,’ Weta continued to prove themselves as doing the best CG animation, the most human, the most alive, the most photo-reali...