It’s giveaways week here on Gizmodo, and today we’re giving away five copies of the surprisingly awesome Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. Each triple-play pack includes a Blu-ray, DVD and digital copy (in stores now for $38) – and we’ve sourced an Apes T-Shirt to throw-in as well.
And the winners are…David, Benjamin, Rhys, Scott and Mr Taco! Congrats guys!
This competition is now closed.
Turns out that Rise of the Planet of the Apes has 1000 digital effect shots — the most Weta has produced for a film since Avatar. Their motion capture tech can now also leave the studio, and this let Andy Serkis interact much more with the other actors.
Earlier this year, Gizmodo Australia sat down with Senior Visual Effects Supervisor, Joe Letteri, to ask how performance capture has progressed since Avatar and Lord of the Rings, and find out if Weta has contemplated video games.
To enter:
Simply watch the video and comment below what question you would ask Joe Letteri/Weta – about this or any other past/future project. Best five questions win the prize!
One enter per person please, Australian residents only. Entries close 10am AEST Monday December 19th.
Full terms and conditions here.
luke
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 12:58 PMDid Cesar wear clothes so that there was less work for the CGI crew to render fur?
Jackson Bison
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:03 PMCaesar wore a toga.
juststu82
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:10 PMDid the lovely bones confuse you also??
Matt L
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:15 PM+1
MDolley
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:20 PMYou say that WETA tends to stay away from video games, but do think that the advances in performance capture will allow for better film adaptations of games? And is there a particular video game character that you’d personally love to see Andy Serkis bring to the big screen?
Benny
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:24 PMHow is the live-action Neon Genesis Evangelion coming along?
Benny
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:48 PMThe previous email address is incorrect.
Anthony
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:26 PMThe advances in replicating people and characters in 3D are truly amazing. Are there parallel advances in the audio side of a performance? I wonder about the ability to digitally reproduce dialogue in an actor’s accent, tone and style.
Rhys
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:28 PMWhere do you see the technology evolving to next. If you had to wait for technology to catch up for Avatar, are there other movies that are still waiting for the right technology before they can be filmed?
redartifice
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:29 PMAre you looking forward to blowing ‘it’ up in a sequel?
kerry santillo
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:31 PMWhen you get inspirations for your movies, do you try them out on family and friends first to see if they are effective?
light487
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:33 PMWill the next movie in the series be called “The Return Of The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes”?
Nath
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:33 PMHow can we put more explosions in the next movie?
Ashleigh
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:43 PMWhat do you want to see in the sequel? ie, what would you like to be added, any improvements, any major changes to the storyline, any storyline from the original, etc.
Naj
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 1:54 PMName a movie that Weta wished they were involved in (but weren’t) and why?
Jackson Bison
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:01 PMSo, bananas or utu mauti…?
scott alexander
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:05 PMI’d like to ask Joe and Weta to discuss what the big breakthroughs in CG will be in the next 5-10 years, obviously they’ve cracked cloth, fur simulation, motion capture is advancing in leaps and bounds… what’s the holy grail for these guys?
kzd
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:09 PMIf you could be any type of ape? Which would you be and why? And also, do you prefer working on real creatures\animals (so you have real life references) or would you rather make fictional creatures?
Thanks.
David B
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:15 PMI want to know, having worked so close with Andy Serkis, does he actually like being a CG Actor? Just because there will always be a tendency outside of our sort of community, to forget who is doing the star performance.
Puddiepants
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:23 PMScrunch or fold?
Lachlan Bromage
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:31 PMI could not believe, that the climb of Caesar’s rank through both primate and human hierarchies was so vivid and comprehensive. Was that the intention? For the simple movie goer to understand the climb in authority? Or was that ‘just how it ended up looking’?
Joel
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2:52 PMWhat don’t you like about the movie or the technology used?
Artists are usually very critical of their own work so it would be a good change of pace to most interviews to talk about how he would have liked to improve it.
browny
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 3:23 PMwhats your favorite monkey?
Big Windows
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 3:31 PMShould 3D fail as the next great saviour of the box office… Will cinematic block-busters go back to fleshing out good characters and telling a good story well?
warcroft
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 4:30 PMSo, how did the apes go having ping pong balls stuck all over them? Were they happy with that?
Peter O
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 4:58 PMAs opposed to motion capture, facial capture to me sounds much more complex. How far has facial capture evolved since movies such as Lord of the Rings and King Kong, and what technologies are being developed to allow for better facial and muscle definition, or have we seen as much as we’re going to see?
gman
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 5:40 PMWould you have ever imagined how fantastic the quality and life like CGI has come over the last few years and where do you see it going in the future?
David
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 7:35 PMThere’s a big (justified) push for Serkis’ mocap performance to be recognised. However Caesar is the result of a multi-disciplinary team. What in your view would be the right ‘award’ to introduce to the Oscars? Best ‘performance’ perhaps?