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to use with "Spawn", "The Pitt", and "The Maxx". He later worked at Protozoa, providing 3D animation computer effects. In 1999 Raitt emigrated to

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to work for Weta Digital. In that post he was responsible for creating the computer-generated face for

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in ''

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''. In video games, he is a modeler, animator, and level designer for the videogame '' Squeezils''. Raitt and his colleagues, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, and Ken McGaugh, won the

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Award for Best Character Animation in a Live Action Motion Picture for their work on The Lord of the Rings. He worked for

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for 9 years until he departed on February 13, 2013. He worked on the ''

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'', The TF2 '' Meet the Team'' animated shorts, TF2 Hats, and the video games ''

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'', '' Half-Life 2: Episode One'', ''

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'', '' Day of Defeat: Source'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Portal 1 and 2''. He is the nephew of singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt, and the grandson of musical theater actor

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