In addition to King Louie – a photo-real giant orang-utan with a buoyant personality, Weta Digital’s work featured the character animation and crowd simulation of Louie’s tribe of monkey minions, and the destruction of the monkey temple and its surrounding jungle environment in the dramatic ‘Mowgli Rescue’ sequence.
Best Visual Effects
Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, Dan Lemmon
Outstanding Visual Effects Feature Film
Robert Legato, Andrew R. Jones, Adam Valdez, Charley Henley Keith Miller
Outstanding Animated Performance in a Photoreal Feature
Paul Story, Dennis Yoo, Eteuati Tema, Andrei Coval
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature
Christoph Salzmann, Masaki Mitchell, Matthew Adams, Max Stummer
Achievement in Special Visual Effects
Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R Jones, Adam Valdez