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The tech division of Weta Digital has been sold in a $1.625 billion deal. Weta Digital is Peter Jackson’s Wellington-based empire known for its work on The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Game of Thrones and many other major film and TV properties. The acquiring company is Unity, an interactive 3D firm. The acquisition…

Weta Digital has partnered with global software provider Autodesk to launch WetaM. The preeminent VFX studio's "next generation creative cloud production pipeline" will integrate its Oscar-winning proprietary tools into the platform of industry-leading 3D software Autodesk Maya. WetaM is said to be groundbreaking in…

Former Walt Disney Animation vet Ann Le Cam has joined Weta Digital as SVP, Global Talent & Animation Production. She will be based in Weta Digital’s Los Angeles office and report to CEO Prem Akkaraju. Le Cam recently served as SVP of Studio Planning and Talent at Walt Disney Animation Studios and held executive…

Weta Digital has tapped Ken Kamins, and former Disney COO Tom Staggs, and Google SVP Jeff Huber to its Board of Directors. The appointments come as the Peter Jackson studio has offices planned in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The trio join Weta Digital board members Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Sean Parker, Joe Letteri…

Weta Digital has forged a deal with Amazon Web Services for the tech-giant’s cloud-based setup for visual effects and animation. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but the strategic incentives on both ends are clear. In reaching terms with Weta, AWS gains a high-profile, blue-chip client to demonstrate its…

Weta Digital, Streamliner and Avalon Studios is changing the game when it comes to production with a new LED-stage virtual production service. So what does this mean, exactly? The three teams have launched a cutting-edge service that combines live performance with real-time visual effects. The new workflow features…

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has been set to write the screenplay for The Wind in the Willows, a feature adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic English tale. Ray Griggs is aboard to to direct the project, which will be shot at Peter Jackson’s Stone Street Studios in Wellington, New Zealand. Jackson’s WETA Dig…

BREAKING: Sean Parker has become a minority equity investor in Weta Digital, the Wellington, New Zealand-based company formed by Peter Jackson and led by Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Joe Letteri that does the visual effects for some of the biggest event pictures being made by Hollywood studios, including Avatar…

With its complex character and environmental work, The Umbrella Academy brought a long list of challenges for VFX supervisor Everett Burrell. Based on comic books created by Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá, the Netflix series centers on a dysfunctional family of adopted sibling superheroes, who reunite following their…