Joe Reitley's main experience

Joe Riley won the Oscar for Best Visual Effect for his pioneering work on digital visual effects in Avatar, The Lord of the Rings: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and King Kong. With his cooperation, he promoted the development of surface scattering technology, successfully produced the scene of Gollum's resurrection and won the Oscar for Best Technology.

Chinese name: Joe Lightley

Mbth: JoeLetteri

Nationality: USA

Date of birth: 1957

Occupation: Director of Visual Effects

Agency: Vita Digital Visual Effects Company.

Representative works: The Lord of the Rings and Avatar.

Major achievements: Oscar: 5 nominations: 5.

BAFTA Award Winners: 4 Nominations: 6

Saturn Prize winners: 4 nominations: 8 nominations

character introduction

Leitley joined Vita Digital as the visual effects director of The Lord of the Rings: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. In the past 1 1 year, he led Vita Digital to become one of the world's leading visual effects studios.

Lightley has promoted the development of many technologies, and these technologies have also become the standard for transforming photographic quality into digital visual effects. He specializes in how to make huge realistic creatures: from dinosaurs in Jurassic Park to Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, to 25-foot-tall gorilla in King Kong, to blue humanoid creatures in Avatar, to Caesar in Tarzan and Dawn of the Apes, and so on.

As the senior visual director of Avatar, Leitley has been in charge of a research and development project for four years, aiming at making a bigger and more complicated scene than he has tried before. This project uses a brand-new imaging system and all-round tools to shoot on the virtual stage, which effectively pushes the film production closer to the virtual production direction.

Lightley was nominated for the Oscar for best visual effects for The Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Steven Berg's film The Adventures of Tintin. Recently, he was nominated for an Oscar for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Stones, which are the first two films in the Hobbit trilogy.

1957 was born in Pennsylvania, USA.

Winning record

Award-winning record information