June 17, 2021
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. Read More »
January 14, 2015
This year's Sci-Tech 'Oscars' reward advances in destruction physics, voxel data and digital vegetation. Read More »
January 9, 2014
ILM and Weta tool developers and pioneers of deep compositing also win Sci-Tech Academy Awards. Read More »
October 2, 2013
Weta's environments look lovely, but dragons are to be heard and not seen in the latest teaser for The Hobbit. Read More »
July 30, 2013
Sculpting a Stylized Character shows how Weta's David Meng creates a practical sculpt of an orang-utan. Read More »
May 31, 2013
Updated with new video: sculpting and rigging toolset gets muscle system similar to Weta's Tissue. Read More »
April 15, 2013
Latest round-up of ace animations and VFX work ranges from pandas in space suits to Prometheus. Read More »
April 11, 2013
Update to the open-source HDR file format should finally make deep compositing available in most tools. Read More »
March 27, 2013
Watch videos of the new workflow for optical marker data, pipeline APIs, Ruler tool and light-setup system. Read More »
January 16, 2013
Other Sci-Tech Academy Awards go to Weta, DreamWorks and the tech behind Blender's smoke system. Read More »
December 12, 2012
Get one last making-of fix with Peter Jackson and the post-production team before the movie opens. Read More »
October 5, 2012
Tintin's VFX Supervisor discusses new tools, techniques and the shift to artistically driven lighting. Read More »
August 31, 2012
See artists from DreamWorks, Weta and Ubisoft show off ZBrush 4R4's tools in coffee-break-sized chunks. Read More »
March 9, 2012
It was overlooked at the Oscars, but Tintin's 3D debut could well be the best animated feature of the year. Read More »
March 6, 2012
All part of the Kickstarter campaign for his short, The Little Painter, but you'll need to be quick to catch it. Read More »
December 16, 2011
Listen to a 30-minute interview with the legendary VFX supervisor about eight years of work on the movie. Read More »
November 30, 2011
Latest update to 3D paint tool adds support for layered PSDs, triplanar texture projection and OpenColorIO. Read More »
October 18, 2011
Updated: the original videos have now been taken down, but you can still find them if you Google hard. Read More »
May 31, 2011
Latest update to 3D painting tool also adds displacement preview, environment mapping. Read More »
January 4, 2011
Innovative fluid simulation software used on Avatar and Dawn Treader gets full commercial release. Read More »
