‘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.
Eagle vs. meerkat: behind Weta Digital’s stunning Unreal Engine short
Fur and feathers!
Watch this ‘King Kong’ featurette on the T. Rex fight
Key team members break it down.
Wait, there’s a talking goldfish!? These are the killer VFX scenes from s2 of ‘The Umbrella Academy’
SPOILER WARNING: The making of the opening battle oner, baby Pogo, a fish-headed android, Ghost Ben and the final confrontation.
Weta Digital’s zero-G ‘Space Force’ chimp mocap included pushing an office chair around
The VFX studio also leveraged its extensive primate experience in bringing the season-favorite character to life.
Body of Work: Weta Digital on the art of face replacement
2D, 3D and everything in between.
The many facets of Thanos’ face
Weta Digital reveals behind the scenes of Thanos in this new video.
Why mandrills jumping on bridges was one of the toughest effects in ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’
Behind the scenes with Weta Digital and the stunning mandrill bridge chase.
How live-action free diver reference informed a crucial scene in ‘Alita: Battle Angel’
Can you hold your breath for six minutes?
Down to the wire: looking back at the VFX of ‘Endgame’
The film had almost 2,500 effects shots.
When one of your fighters is not real
...actually, often they’re both not real: how Weta Digital crafted the Will Smith vs. Will Smith rumble in ‘Gemini Man’.
Procedural pores, modeling teeth, messy fighting and other new things Weta Digital did to turn Will Smith into a 23-year-old
Weta Digital also had to work with 40 times the usual data on ‘Gemini Man’.
Watch a whole ton of official ‘Avengers: Endgame’ VFX breakdowns in one place
So. Many. Befores. And. Afters.
A visual history of performance capture at Weta Digital
Gollum. Caesar. Thanos. And more.
My VFX job: Rendering software engineer
Weta Digital’s Javor Kalojanov on being part of rendering research at the top-tier studio.
Projecting immersive and interactive imagery onto the underside of a dome, in real-time. Easy, right?
Weta Digital and 2n Design, and some neat real-time tech, combined for the Childish Gambino’s Pharos festival.
See befores & afters of Will Smith in ‘Gemini Man’
Go behind the scenes of Weta Digital’s work.
Creatures, fire and atmospherics: cooking up a ‘Game of Thrones’ VFX storm
A visual breakdown of Weta Digital's killer shots from the final season.
Hey Thanos, what’s new with you?
The extra tools employed by Weta Digital and Digital Domain in crafting Thanos for ‘Endgame’.
How ‘Endgame’s’ battle against Thanos went from greenscreen stages to those final epic shots
The story behind those portals, Iron’s Man finger-snap, and making the ‘mega’ blip.
‘She eats a lot during this film, you know’ – giving CG characters some bite
How do you make a CG character eat, anyway? Weta Digital reveals all.
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Issue #65: The visual effects of The Electric State.
Latest limited edition t-shirt: Pseudopod.
