George Port

The founding member of Oscar-winning special effects house Wētā Digital, George Port laboured for seven months solo on the digital effects for Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures. He went on to found Auckland effects company PRPVFX, which has supplied visual effects for more than 100 projects, including Xena: Warrior Princess, Rain of the Children and Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon.

In those days we had enough disc storage to do approximately 10 seconds of effects. Today most people have more storage on their phones. George Port on creating digital effects for Weta, in the early 1990s