Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Special FX Trailer Released

A new special effects featurette for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has been released online (via IGN).

In the featurette, director Matt Reeves and several others who worked on the film discuss the challenges and new technology used to bring the apes to life through the use of computer graphics and motion capture.

"As Dawn begins, the feeling is that it's the dawn of a new species, that intelligent apes have inherited the Earth," says Reeves. "The thing that happened between Rise and our film is that WETA has taken a quantum leap forward."

In Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, a growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes opens July 11.