Weta Workshop

See also: Weta

Weta Workshop is a specialist company in the special effects for the Cinéma and the Télévision. Its seat is with Wellington (New Zealand). Founded in 1986 by Richard Taylor and others, it in particular created creatures and mouldings for the televised series Hercules , Xena, warlike the and for films such as Meet the Feebles and celestial Créatures . A numerical division, Weta DIGITAL, were created in 1993.

The fame of Weta Workshop became world with its participation in the trilogy of the Seigneur of the Rings , carried out by Peter Jackson, for which it produced units, costumes, armours, weapons, creatures and models of any size.

Although there are homonymy between the name of the firm and that of the weta, alive insect in New Zealand, the name of the company is actually an acronym, WETA, whose “developed” name, Wingnut Entertainment Technical Allusions refers to the firm of film production of Peter Jackson, Wingnut Entertainment, by adding to it a word game based on the resemblance between the words illusion and allusion .

At present, after eight years into major part devoted to Lord of Rings (pre-production, production, post-production), work rewarded by several Oscars allotted to some for its technicians, in particular for costumes, make-up and effects visual, Weta Workshop devotes to new projects, of which a version in three dimensions of the Anime Japanese with success Neon Genesis Evangelion , whose exit should spread out 2006 with 2010 as well as the film adaptation of the literary work of Cleaves Staple Lewis, " chronicles off Narnia: the lion, the witch and the wardrobe" 2005 and this year the second shutter of this saga " the chronicles off Narnia: Prince Caspian" whose coming out date is envisaged on July 2nd, 2008 in France.

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Weta, the studio has another division: Weta DIGITAL.

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