Rotoscoping & Cleanup

Here is how this works in practice. We staff roto and paint-cleanup artists through Weta FX Wellington, Cinesite Auckland, and boutique VFX houses including BluBlu Studios, Mukpuddy Animation, and Plot Point Productions, with overflow capacity managed through DNeg and Pixomondo partnerships when project scale demands. Standard toolchains run Silhouette FX for high-volume rotoscoping, Nuke's RotoPaint and Splinewarp for VFX-aligned roto, Mocha Pro for planar tracking-driven roto, and Fusion Studio for Resolve-integrated paint.

Here is how this works in practice. Cleanup work has rig removal (wirework on Avatar Way of Water, Thor Ragnarok), tracking-marker paint, background plate restoration for shots that picked up unwanted detail (Auckland and The capital urban shoots routinely need traffic-light, signage, and car removal under Auckland Council and The capital City Council location-permit conditions), and beauty work for hero performance shots. Pipeline ingest accepts ARRIRAW, REDCODE R3D, Sony X-OCN, and Canon CRM masters. Deliveries route to Park Road Post and finishing houses as DPX, EXR, and ProRes mezzanines.

Here is the short of it. NZ roto and cleanup heritage runs through Weta FX's six-plus Best VFX Oscar wins. Lord of the Rings Return of the King (2003). King Kong (2005), Avatar (2009), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) — and the today's Rings of Power (Amazon Prime Video) campaign which sits as the largest streaming production ever made. District 9 (2009, Best VFX nomination) was a Weta-Wellington joint work. Avatar Way of Water's high-frame-rate 48 fps stereoscopic 3D needed roto pipelines retooled for HFR delivery, advancing the industry standard. Iwi consultation under tikanga applies to roto and cleanup involving culturally major material — moko, korowai, taonga objects — where digital alteration touches kaitiaki rights. Privacy Act 2020, AWS Auckland storage, GST 15 percent, NZD invoicing, ACC accident cover.