Lauren Morimoto
Rotoscope & Digital Paint Artist

Last Update: January 20, 2008

Lauren at WETA Digital in Wellington, New Zealand 2003.

movie credits:

Evil Eye Pictures, San Francisco, CA, USA
Currently working on: Speed Racer

Industrial Light+Magic, Div. LucasFilm, USA 
Rush Hour 3 (Jackie Chan)
Transformers (uncredited)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
3D version Nightmare before Christmas
Eragon
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Jarhead
War of the Worlds
Island (uncredited)
xXx: State of the Union
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Van Helsing
Hidalgo
Men in Black II
StarWars Episode II Attack of the Clones
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

and for: WETA Digital Ltd., New Zealand
Lord of the Rings - Two Towers
Lord of the Rings - Return of the King

click on links below to see other websites - use your "back"  
StarWars Episode II - scroll down about 60% to Digital RotoScope Paint Artists
LucasFilms StarWars Episode II - scroll down same as above
Online Game Database - Lauren listed in an online Game Developer DataBase
Presto Studios - Image Processing

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Below are links to IMDB (Internet Movie DataBase) webpages - in the left column under Overview, click on "Full Cast & Crew" to find Lauren's name.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 
Men in Black II 
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 
Hidalgo 
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 
Van Helsing 
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events 
xXx: State of the Union 
War of the Worlds

or just click  below for the full IMDB list for Lauren:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1145914/

more site buttons will be added as I find them

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SO.... what's RotoScope? The following is Mom's take on all this:

Rotoscope is called "post" production work on movies because it is done after all the (what I call) "human" filming is done. It is a process where they add, delete or alter parts from the images that were previously filmed in preparation for other processes to happen.

Once the Digital RotoScope Paint Artists are done with their stuff (I'm told it's never "done"), the work goes to other departments who then do their thing to the images to produce the final images.

This is a hugely simplistic description of what happens to a movie like Lord of the Rings. Is there any wonder the huge number of personnel working on what is considered "post" production work?

Going to the movies has taken on new meaning for this proud Mom.

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