and that's it from mwc this year. after all that, it's time to take a relaxing trip elsewhere.azing to sit down and relax. stunning. that was lara in barcelona. now, after weeks of build—up, the oscars are finally here. the 90th academy awards are this weekend. over the past few weeks, we have been going exclusively behind the scenes with some of the nominees in the best visual effects category. this week is the fourth in our series, the ninth in theirs — otherwise known as episode 8. of course i am talking about star wars: the lastjedi. let the past die. kill it. we aim to do as much as we can in camera. the reality is there will always be big moments that will need visual effects. on a film like this, it's a star wars movie, we ultimately ended up with over 2000 effect shots in this film. you have too much of your father's heart in you. it took almost a year to get to the final look for snoke. it is an organic process. we started with a maquette. we digitised it, brought it in, we started to paint textures and build the internal controls and anatomy of the character. and as t

we'll be bringing you all of the latest news and releases from nwc in barcelona. and releases from mwcplanted onto another. next, it's time to meet the people who took this man's face and body and turned him into a completely different species. the team behind war for the planet of the apes is hoping to win the best visual effects 0scar next weekend. if it does, it will be the second 0scar in a row for dan lemon. bad place. human zoo. bad human. bad humans. soldiers... war for the planet of the apes represents the effort of over 500 people in visual effects. some of us worked on the movie for, like, two years. the movie runs about two hours and 20 minutes, and all but 15 shots in the movie had visual effects. many of the heaviest shots in the movie took over 11100 hours per frame to render. so, that's core hours. so we have a lot of those processors working at the same time. maybe the frames wouldn't come back for two days, three days. bad place. i find long time ago, afterzoo, i... so the razor‘s edge that we walk is figuring out how to take our apes and adjust them, and make the perf