Bay Raitt
- Animation Department
- Visual Effects
As Creature Facial Lead at "Weta Digital", Bay Raitt was responsible
for modelling and building the facial system for the CGI character
"Gollum" in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 2003, Bay received a
Visual Effects Society Award for 'best character animation in a live
action motion picture' for his work on creating Gollum. Bay started his
career at working for Steve Oliff doing color separations for early
issues of Spawn, The Pitt and The Maxx for Image Comics. In 1994, Bay
joined "Protozoa" where he worked as a digital puppeteer, modelling
lead, animation supervisor, animation director and assistant director
on the video game 'Squeezils'. In 1997, Nichimen Graphics hired Bay as
product manager to help redesign of the 3D animation system, 'Mirai'
which he subsequently used to on Gollum. In 1999; Bay emmigrated to New
Zealand to join Weta Digital. Most Recently worked at Weta Workshop as
a designer and sculptor, before being hired by Valve Corporation,
making his debut in the video game industry with the lauded Half-Life
sequel.
