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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.
The first prototypes of Kaynemaile were created within Weta Workshop's Creatures, Armor and Weapons department for The Lord of The Rings movie trilogy. Real metal chainmail was identified as too heavy for the actors to wear or do stunts. [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 .
Greg Broadmore (born 1972) is a New Zealand concept designer, artist, writer and sculptor based in Wellington. [1] He is the creator of Dr Grordbort's, [2] and has worked as a designer, artist and writer at The Lord of the Rings film franchise director Peter Jackson's award-winning special effects and prop company, Weta Workshop since 2002.
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 ...
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Weta Workshop and Weta Digital began to work immediately on King Kong after the completion of The Return of the King and Jackson had brought back the crew that worked with him on The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Filming began in September 2004, with Andy Serkis portraying Kong via motion-capture acting.
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]