Interview With "Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes" Visual Effects Supervisor Erik Winquist

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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"Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes" represents a vast technological breakthrough in visual effects technology as the "Planet of the Apes" franchise continues to push the boundaries of what's possible in visual effects with each passing installment. The work on Wes Ball's 2024 blockbuster has received nominations from the Critics Choice, BAFTA, Visual Effects Society, and now, the Academy Awards. WETA Visual Effects Supervisor Erik Winquist was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about his work on the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on Disney+ and is up for your consideration for this year's Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview with the visual effects supervisor for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Eric Winquist.
0:14.0	Son.
0:16.0	Your father, he waits.
0:24.6	What to lie. What to teach.
0:27.6	There are dangers beyond our village.
0:32.6	What a wonderful day! Help your father!
0:53.3	Your father! Eric, thank you so much for chatting with me today about your work in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
1:07.0	I love the movie and congrats on the Oscar nomination. It's got to feel
1:12.1	feel good. Your second time around getting Oscar nominated. How's it feel this time around?
1:16.6	It's not my first rodeo. It's my second. Thanks though. And obviously we're super stoked about
1:23.6	the nominations and looking forward to the circus that's about to befall us all.
1:31.5	Absolutely. Well, it's so well deserved. Glad to see it happen. And of course, you first made
1:36.2	the Oscar shortlist back in December, but sadly, the bake-off was canceled. Had you guys
1:42.8	already worked out what you were going to present at the bakeoff?
1:47.3	Oh, yeah.
1:47.7	Yeah.
1:47.9	I mean, just the part of that, essentially just because of the process, you need to have
1:52.0	your reel already prepared so that it's all ready to go.
1:55.7	And so for that reason, I think because they're now putting those reels on the
2:00.8	Academy Screening Room for members
2:02.2	to watch, should there be a nomination, it was actually pretty fortuitous that they could
2:08.3	essentially pivot that quickly and just say, we're going to do this in that format. And so I guess for
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