Presenter

Daniel Barrett is a veteran member of the Wētā FX animation team and won an Academy® Award and BAFTA Award for Avatar: Way of Water and again for Avatar: Fire and Ash. Daniel was also the Animation Supervisor for three of the Planet of the Apes films, Rise, Dawn and War, earning him three Oscar® and BAFTA nominations.
He joined the team at Wētā FX in 2006 on Bridge to Terabithia. The same year he was Lead Animator on The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, work that earned him a VES nomination for Animated Character.
Daniel spent three years as Lead Animator on James Cameron’s Avatar on multiple sequences, including the destruction of the Home Tree and the third act ground battle. He also led the animation team that created the digital Paul Walker for Furious 7.