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Wētā Workshop is a special effects and prop company as well as a board game and miniatures company and video game developer based in Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand. It mainly produces effects for television and film .
Auckland, New Zealand-based financier Hillfarrance Venture Capital is backing a team of former Weta Digital staff in their new VFX venture Wellington-based Floating Rock Studios. Founded in 2020 ...
Wellywood is an informal name for the city of Wellington, New Zealand. The name—a conflation of Wellington and Hollywood—was coined in the 1990s and is a reference to the film production business established in the city by The Lord of the Rings film director Sir Peter Jackson, and Wellington-based special effects companies Weta Workshop and Weta Digital. [1]
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 dissolved. [14 ...
Wētā FX, formerly known as Weta Digital, is a New Zealand–based digital visual effects and computer animation company based in Miramar, Wellington. It was founded by Peter Jackson , Richard Taylor , and Jamie Selkirk in 1993 to produce the digital visual effects for Heavenly Creatures .
[34] [73] Wētā Workshop created props, weapons, and prosthetics for the season, which were shipped from Wellington to Auckland by truck. [79]: 29 [110] For the season, 87 sets were built, [39] 2,000 costumes were made, [111] and more than 1,000 weapons and 2,500 arrows were created. [103]
Wētā is a loanword, from the Māori-language word wētā, which refers to this whole group of large insects; some types of wētā have a specific Māori name. [2] In New Zealand English, it is spelled either "weta" or "wētā", although the form with macrons is increasingly common in formal writing, as the Māori word weta (without macrons) instead means "filth or excrement". [3]
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 ...