GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH POGO

Crafting photo-realistic CG primates has become a staple for Weta Digital, with Dr. Phinneus Pogo (Adam Godley) from The Umbrella Academy joining the ranks of King Kong, Caesar and King Louie. The CGI human/chimp plays a father figure to children with supernatural abilities, adopted and mentored by Sir Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feore), in the Netflix adaption of the comic book series created by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá.

Branching out into television programming presented a slightly different challenge for Weta Digital VFX supervisor Chris White (). “In terms of the work itself we did similar techniques, because we wanted the same quality as a film production, but we had to come up with a plan that would work for all of the episodes that was tight and on schedule for everything. We set up a pipeline so everyone had something to work on. For example, even though the final ADR and animation based on the facial and expressions of Adam Godley would come later, as soon as the plates arrived with Ken Hall playing