Matt Aitken
Matt has worked at Weta Digital since the early days of the company. Matt was Digital Models Supervisor on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, pre-production / R&D Supervisor for King Kong, and Visual FX Supervisor for Bridge to Terabithia.
This year Matt has supervised visual effects on The Lovely Bones and District 9, as Digital FX Supervisor and Visual FX Supervisor respectively. Recently Matt has been working on Weta Digital projects including Dambusters, Tintin and Avatar. Matt has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Victoria University of Wellington and a Master of Science in Computer Graphics from Middlesex University, London.
He has had technical papers published by Eurographics and Graphite, and has given presentations on Weta Digital's work at many conferences and festivals including SIGGRAPH, fmx, the Australian Effects and Animation Festival, Imagina, the London Effects and Animation Festival, and AnimfxNZ.
