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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 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 ...
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 ...
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The writers condensed Tolkien's Second Age timeline from thousands of years to a short period of time. This allowed major human characters from later in the timeline to be introduced in the season, [1] including Isildur and others from Númenor. The showrunners said visiting Númenor, a kingdom of Men that is destroyed near the end of the ...
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 .
Richard Taylor, the creative director of special effects company Wētā Workshop, and illustrators Alan Lee and John Howe all returned from Jackson's film trilogy to work on The War of the Rohirrim. [ 6 ] [ 24 ] The film's visual style was described as being based on that of Jackson's films rather than the style of the previous animated Lord of ...