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Wētā Workshop's video games division was founded in 2014 [7] and has produced multiple games including the augmented reality project Dr. Grordbort's Invaders for Magic Leap, which was apparently was never released, [8] and the upcoming video game Tales of the Shire: A "The Lord of the Rings" Game.
[12] [13] In May of 2020, due to economic fallout resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the relationship between Taylor's Weta Workshop and Magic Leap came to an end, when the latter company laid off about 1,000 staff members worldwide. All of the Magic Leap employees in New Zealand were laid off, and the partnership with Weta Workshop was ...
The company was founded by Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, and Jamie Selkirk in 1993 to produce the digital special effects for the film Heavenly Creatures. [7] As of 2025, Wētā FX has won seven Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003 ...
Weta may be going through a re-branding exercise, having spawned new divisions such as Weta Tenzan Chain Maille, Weta Collectibles, Weta Publishing.....with more in the pipeline. This article needs a good bit of work to fall into NPOV and requires a lot more citing for many of the claims made in the article.
Production began in June 2013 at Weta Workshop, [3] while the principal voice cast was announced on 30 September 2014. [4] Each series consists of 26 episodes with transmission split into multiple parts. Series 1 was broadcast between 4 April–20 June 2015 and 31 October 2015–23 January 2016.
It is a four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle with a 12.7mm three-barreled machine-gun mounted in the rear. The Warthog can be crewed by three people; a driver, an armed passenger and a gunner. Halo 2 added the ability to pull a power slide in the Warthog, and an anti-armour variant (the M12G1 LAAV) armed with a 25mm gauss cannon . [ 5 ]
Prem Akkaraju is the founder of Weta Cloud – which sold to Unity Software on November 9, 2021, for $1.625 billion – and ex-CEO of Wētā FX (formerly named Weta Digital).
In April 2021, the developers announced plans to launch a Kickstarter project later in the month to turn the demo into a full game. [12] On April 18, a Kickstarter project for the full version of the game was released under the name Friday Night Funkin': The Full Ass Game and reached its goal of $60,000 within hours. [18]