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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 .
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 ...
The duo visited the Wētā Workshop in Aukland, where the animatronics, props, and aesthetics from the Lord of the Rings movies were created. "They actually made me up to be a creature from Lord ...
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.
An investigation into Wētā's workplace culture by Kiwi public TV broadcaster 1News, begun in June 2020 following a social media post by former Wētā Workshop employee Layna Lazar, resulted in more than 40 current and former Weta Digital employees anonymously sharing accounts of "sexism, bullying and harassment" in September 2020.
Between Ryan Coogler's Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water, the tech wizards at Wētā FX have cornered the market on aquatic effects.Co-founded by Lord of ...
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 ...
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 ...