He might’ve just been being polite but on more than one occasion Steven said that these calls were the highlight of his day. We reviewed the work with him via video conference calls, by the time we got up to speed with the show we were doing these calls with him daily. Steven was fantastic to work with, always enthusiastic about the work and incredibly astute on what changes needed to be made. How was the collaboration with director Steven Spielberg? Since then I have had the privilege to work on some fantastic projects here including LORD OF THE RINGS, KING KONG, AVATAR, DISTRICT 9 and now THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN. I studied film, mathematics and computer graphics systems programming at university then joined Weta Digital in 1994 when the company was just getting started. Then when personal computers first became available I was immediately drawn to them, I particularly loved programming computers to create images. I’ve loved movies from an early age and used to make short films in the Super 8 format. My background is in a combination of filmmaking and computers. In the following interview, he talks about his work on THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN. He won two VES Awards for KING KONG and THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS. He participated in all major projects of the studio as THE FRIGHTENERS, the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy, I ROBOT, KING KONG or AVATAR. Matt Aitken joined Weta Digital just after its creation in 1994.
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