Weta Digital unveils WetaM
New cloud-based service will let VFX artists use 100 of Weta's Academy Award-winning in-house tools inside a custom build of Maya.
Thursday, June 17th, 2021
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Bullet and Naiad creators win Academy Awards
This year's Sci-Tech 'Oscars' reward advances in destruction physics, voxel data and digital vegetation.
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
ZBrush and Mudbox creators win technical Oscars
ILM and Weta tool developers and pioneers of deep compositing also win Sci-Tech Academy Awards.
Thursday, January 9th, 2014
Eye candy: The Desolation of Smaug trailer
Weta's environments look lovely, but dragons are to be heard and not seen in the latest teaser for The Hobbit.
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013
Gnomon releases new DVD on sculpting better characters
Sculpting a Stylized Character shows how Weta's David Meng creates a practical sculpt of an orang-utan.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
Joe Alter releases LipService 6.5 for Maya
Updated with new video: sculpting and rigging toolset gets muscle system similar to Weta's Tissue.
Friday, May 31st, 2013
Eye candy: The Foundry's 2013 showreel
Latest round-up of ace animations and VFX work ranges from pandas in space suits to Prometheus.
Monday, April 15th, 2013
OpenEXR 2.0 released
Update to the open-source HDR file format should finally make deep compositing available in most tools.
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
Autodesk reveals features of MotionBuilder 2014
Watch videos of the new workflow for optical marker data, pipeline APIs, Ruler tool and light-setup system.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Katana and mocha creators win technical Oscars
Other Sci-Tech Academy Awards go to Weta, DreamWorks and the tech behind Blender's smoke system.
Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
Eye candy: behind the scenes on The Hobbit
Get one last making-of fix with Peter Jackson and the post-production team before the movie opens.
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
Weta's Matthias Menz on new trends in CG lighting
Tintin's VFX Supervisor discusses new tools, techniques and the shift to artistically driven lighting.
Friday, October 5th, 2012
Watch Pixologic's Siggraph ZBrush presentations
See artists from DreamWorks, Weta and Ubisoft show off ZBrush 4R4's tools in coffee-break-sized chunks.
Friday, August 31st, 2012