Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Technology

The following were involved in providing technological assistance for the production of the movie:

Weta Digital:
Weta Digital is a digital visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was founded by Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, and Jamie Selkirk in 1993.
To date, Weta Digital has won five Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects.

Weta Digital has developed several proprietary software packages to achieve groundbreaking visual effects.

For Mockingjay part 2, they played the parts of being the  digital compositors,effects technical directors, camera technical directors, lead camera technical directors, animation coordinators and so on.
WETA digital was responsible for lead lighting  and technical issues.


Legend3D:
Founded in 2001, Legend3D, Inc. is an innovative virtual reality, 3D visual effects and conversion company committed to advancing the 3D medium globally. Legend’s technology enables the conversion of new and historically produced 2D movies, TV shows, advertisements and other video entertainment assets into 3D.

Most of the music and composition for Mockingjay pt 2 was provided by Legend3D.



Double Negative:
Double Negative is a British full-service visual effects/computer animation company located in Fitzrovia, London. The company was set up in 1998 with a team of 30 staff and has since grown to over 1,000 staff, making it Europe's largest provider of visual effects for film.



Recruit for the visual effects work were Double Negative, Weta Digital, MPC, The Embassy Visual Effects, Lola VFX, Skulley Effects, Exceptional Minds, Magnopus and previz by Halon. "Fortunately I'd had the good luck to work with most of the facilities before and I was able to cast the companies and supervisors in the roles for which I felt they were best suited,” states Charles Gibson. "I generally try to avoid too much sharing of shots and assets, mostly for scheduling reasons, but we did share some hard models and a number of plates where it made sense.” 


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