Supernatural Presents ... Digital Art Joe Letteri and the Making of King Kong Tate Modern 25.09 London

Visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri from Weta Digital discusses the creation of the Academy Award-winning visual effects for Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005), showing how Weta built 1933 New York City, grew the lush jungles of Skull Island and brought Kong to life.

Letteri has pioneered and developed many of the digital techniques that have become the standard in bringing photographic quality to high-end visual effects. As an artist, he has specialised in the creation of highly realistic imagery, from the dinosaurs of Jurassic ParkThe Lord of the Rings (2001–3) to the 25-foot gorilla in King Kong. Letteri is the winner of two Academy Awards and recipient of the Academy’s Technical Achievement Award for co-developing the subsurface scattering technique that was used to bring Gollum to life. (1993)

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