About me
KEVIN SHERWOOD grew up in Los Angeles. He worked at ILM at the old Kerner facility, then in freelance commercial production and then at Rhythm and Hues where he followed his mentor, Eileen Moran to Wētā in 2002. He has worked on many of Weta Digital’s major films, stacking up years of wide-ranging experience. He recently produced Wētā’s work for Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire (2024) and Alien: Romulus (2024). Kevin has now stepped into a senior leadership role as Head of Production where he leads our production teams across three hubs. Kevin’s expertise spans the visual effects process, from pre-production to onset motion capture through to realization and final delivery. As VFX Producer on Oscar-nominated The Hobbit trilogy (2011–13), he was involved in previs, led Wētā’s onset VFX team for the full live-action and motion-capture shoots, and guided the team of sequence production managers. On The BFG (2016) he worked with Director Steven Spielberg and the mocap crew and he was on set for the live-action shoot for Alita: Battle Angel (2019). Across each of these projects, Kevin was the client’s key liaison at Wētā and had ultimate responsibility for the budget, schedule anddelivery. In 2010, Kevin produced Wētā’s first ride, the King Kong 360 3-D at Universal Studios Hollywood, winning a Visual Effects Society Award.
Building varied experience early on, Kevin arrivied at Wētā for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), he took on pipeline project management, coding, and working with the camera and miniature departments. An early highlight was producing Wētā’s ‘Travellers’ television commercial, which won him a Gold Clio.
