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How Oscar-Nominated VFX Teams Created Alien Animatronics, Wicked Worlds and More
The VFX supervisors on Oscar nominees 'Alien: Romulus,' 'Better Man,' 'Dune 2,' 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' and 'Wicked'
Without a juggernaut like “Avatar,” this year’s visual effects Oscar race is proving a competitive one, with VFX branch members nominating the stellar work in “ Alien: Romulus,” “ Better Man,” “ Dune: Part 2,” “ Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes ” and “ Wicked.” “We did a lot of the actual riding on top of a gimbal in Budapest, and then we had the approach done in Abu Dhabi,” Lambert relates, nothing that on the digital front, DNEG did the “heavy lifting” though work involved multiple VFX houses. The three prior movies in the “Planet of the Apes” reboot, which starred Andy Serkis and featured Weta FX’s work, were all VFX Oscar nominated in their years.
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