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The company is named after the New Zealand wētā, one of the world's largest insects. [2] Wētā Workshop's output was used in director Peter Jackson's film trilogies The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, producing sets, costumes, armour, weapons, creatures and miniatures. [3] It also aided in the making of Jackson's 2005 version of King Kong. [4]
Wētā FX, formerly known as Weta Digital, is a New Zealand–based digital visual effects and animation company based in Miramar, Wellington. It was founded by Peter Jackson , Richard Taylor , and Jamie Selkirk in 1993 to produce the digital special effects for Heavenly Creatures .
Both Richard Taylor and Wētā Workshop appear in the documentary film Reclaiming the Blade, where they discussed the creative and technical process of how movie props (specifically swords) are created at Wētā Workshop. Swords created by Wētā for films such as The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia are featured in the film as well.
Prolific author Neal Stephenson’s digital content platform Lamina1 and “The Lord of the Rings” film franchise special effects company Wētā Workshop are set to collaborate on a ...
Wētā Workshop was the major stylistic force behind the films, working on concepts, sets and digital effects years before the first scenes were even shot. The series was also briefly aided by Digital Domain in the first movie. Props, sets, prosthetics and locations were given the utmost concentration and detail to achieve a look that was as ...
In 2010, Wētā Workshop produced a replica skull and hand based on photos of the missing hand and skull. Mike Allsop handed over the replica skull and hand to monks at Pangboche in May 2011. Mike Allsop handed over the replica skull and hand to monks at Pangboche in May 2011.
Special effects company Wētā Workshop and visual effects vendor Wētā FX returned from the films. The season premiered on the streaming service Amazon Prime Video on September 1, 2022, with its first two episodes. This followed a marketing campaign that attempted to win over dissatisfied Tolkien fans.
The design team at Wētā Workshop, responsible for the animal designs to be featured in the film, were inspired by the speculative evolution works of Dougal Dixon, especially his book The New Dinosaurs (1988), which speculated on what forms non-avian dinosaurs might have evolved into if they had not gone extinct at the end of the Cretaceous ...