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Weta Digital is part of a number of Peter Jackson co-owned companies in Wellington which includes Weta Workshop, Weta Productions, Weta Collectibles and Park Road Post Production.
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Weta and Digital
One of the main features of the industry, Weta Digital can be credited with the popularity of Media Studies in NZ.
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New Zealand visual effects houses Weta Workshop and Weta Digital were named after the insect.
The special effects in the film were handled by the then newly-created Weta Digital.
The close-up shots were filmed on the Weta Digital Wet-Set at Lower Hutt NZ
the Extra-Terrestrial, * batteries not included, The Abyss, and also provided work for Avatar, alongside Weta Digital.
Weta Digital is a digital visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand.
In 2007 Weta Digital ’ s Senior Visual Effects Supervisor, Joe Letteri, was also appointed as a Director of the company.
Weta Digital has won several Academy Awards and BAFTAs.
To date, Weta Digital has won five 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 ), King Kong ( 2005 ), and Avatar ( 2009 ).
Weta Digital has developed several proprietary software packages to achieve groundbreaking visual effects.
Computer graphics | CG depiction of Gollum created by Weta Digital for the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy | Lord of the Rings film trilogy
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Weta and is
The county is divided into six townships: Grandview II, Interior, Jewett, Little Buffalo, Wall, and Weta ; and four areas of unorganized territory: East Jackson, Northwest Jackson, Southeast Jackson, and Southwest Jackson.
Weta is the name given to about 70 insect species endemic to New Zealand.
Weta Workshop is a special effects and prop company based in Miramar, New Zealand, producing effects for television and film.
The term " Bigature " is Weta Workshop's nickname for a very large miniature model.
The name " Weta Legs " is Weta Workshop's name for a " low profile, professional grade reverse leg stilt " developed by Kim Graham and Weta technicians and manufactured by Performing Legs Ltd.
Sir Richard Leslie Taylor, KNZM, is the creator and head of New Zealand film prop and special effects company Weta Workshop.
Some of Lordi's scenery is designed by Weta Workshop of New Zealand.
Weta Workshop, involved in many movies directed by Sir Peter Jackson, such as The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, King Kong, and The Hobbit, is also located in Miramar.
Weta and Peter
Weta Workshop's output came to worldwide prominence with director Peter Jackson's film trilogy The Lord of the Rings, producing sets, costumes, armour, weapons, creatures and miniatures.
Weta also used Bigatures in Peter Jackson's King Kong.
In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy the Haradrim are inspired visually by Aztecs and Pacific Kiribati tribes ( rather than an unspecified African influence as in the book ) according to the ROTK DVD's Weta Workshop documentary.
From October 2001 to September 2002 he co-ordinated the highly successful Wellington premieres of the first two movies in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy and managed the marketing of The Lord of the Rings collectibles for Weta Workshop.
Film director Sir Peter Jackson and his colleagues Sir Richard Taylor ( VFX ) and Jamie Selkirk ( Editor ) have built a series of multi-million dollar studios, sound stages, and pre-and post-production ( including Weta Digital-Avatar and Weta Workshop ) facilities in Miramar, where he filmed The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong.
On August 23, 2010, it was announced in the Hero Complex section of the Los Angeles Times that Richard Taylor and Peter Jackson's Weta Workshop would be joining Panzer 88.
Weta and Jackson
Jackson asked the Weta Workshop designers to make Gothmog look diseased.
In order to ground his Kong in realism, Jackson and the Weta Digital crew gave a name to his fictitious species, Megaprimatus kong, which was said to have evolved from the Gigantopithecus.
* Weta, South Dakota, an unincorporated community in Jackson County, South Dakota, United States
Weta and companies
He conducted research at renowned studios and visual effects companies, including Animal Logic, Blue Sky Studios, Industrial Light & Magic, Park Road Post, Pixar Animation Studios and Weta Digital.
Weta and Wellington
Weta are a four piece rock band from Wellington, New Zealand.
Weta reformed and played small 200-300 person venues in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch during November 2008.
Aaron Tokona from Wellington, New Zealand band Weta filled in, though chose to turn down the band's offer to become a permanent member.
Notable species on the island include the Cook Strait Giant Weta, Shore Plover, North Island Robin, Takahe, Wellington Green Gecko, Yellow-crowned Parakeet, and Brown Teal.
* Weta Digital, a digital visual effects company based in Wellington, New Zealand
In 2003 he moved back home to Wellington, New Zealand to work as a senior systems administrator, and later became the operations manager, for Weta Digital.
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