Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Joe Letteri will provide a comprehensive look at the innovative technology and workflows developed for Avatar: The Way of Water, including the R&D investment years prior to beginning actual shot production. Joe will also talk about what drove this ambition for new technology and how Wētā integrated new AI systems into artist workflows without sacrificing full artist control. Joe will go into detail on Wētā FX's new facial system (APFS), onset innovations including new capture systems and the neural-network driven depth compositing workflow, and the new multi-physics integrated solver, Loki.
