A round-table with Weta Digital on dragons, water and rings.
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Tech Weeklies: New ZBrush, update on Unity’s VFX Graph, details on WetaH
The latest releases in VFX and animation tools.
Stuffie to stuntie to CGI
How ‘Jungle Cruise’ jaguar Proxima was brought to life, including with an on-set stunt performer in a jaguar-print suit.
Weta Digital on how they made those raging rapids in ‘Jungle Cruise’
Water sims, CG environments…and lots of bubbles.
Behind ‘Black Widow’: A helicopter, a prison, an avalanche and a digital pig
“They had four trained pigs on set and they were all very good, fine actors, but…”
25 years on, ‘The Frighteners’ still thrills as Weta Digital’s first calling card
A look back at the VFX studio’s first major project.
Chris Pratt pantomimed fighting creature tentacles in ‘The Tomorrow War’ with a stuffie called the football
How the visual effects teams brought the white spikes to life in the film.
Weta Digital is posting a heap of VFX breakdowns right now
X-Men, Wolverine, Maze Runner, Gemini Man, Apes and more.
How Weta Digital delivered that digi-double handover of Anthony Mackie in ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’
Plus, a look at the studio’s canyon creation for that dramatic opening scene of the series.
Weta Digital vs. Kong vs. a giant flying serpent vs. an upside down world
OK, how the heck do you make an Earth within the Earth?
“He was finished to a reasonable level in 2017 before he was cut out of the movie”
How Weta Digital returned to half-finished shots, and created new ones, for ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’.
A visual journey into the Sci-Tech hair simulation winners
Behind the scenes of the tech from Weta Digital, ILM, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar.
‘This is where we add the 30 foot liquid metal shark’
#Shotmakers: Weta Digital breaks down this fun single scene from Robert Rodriquez’s ‘We Can Be Heroes’.
Weta Digital’s meerkat Unreal short available as free sample files
Download the entire scene.
Behind the VFX of ‘The Christmas Chronicles 2’
Weta Digital explains how they created elves, Jack-a-lotes, Santa’s flying sleigh, snowy environments and…a Yule Cat.