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On August 23, 2021, Weta Digital announced a collaboration with SideFX for a cloud service combining the studio's proprietary tools within SideFX's Houdini called WetaH. [47] [48] Tree wētā ( Hemideina) are commonly encountered in suburban settings in New Zealand's North Island. They are up to 40mm long and most commonly live in holes in trees formed by beetle and moth larvae [21] or where rot has set in after a twig has broken off. The hole, called a gallery, is maintained by the wētā and any growth of the bark surrounding the opening is chewed away. They readily occupy a preformed gallery in a piece of wood (a "wētā motel") and can be kept in a suburban garden as pets. A gallery might house a harem of up to 10 adult females and one male. [8] Tree wētā are nocturnal. Their diet consists of plants and small insects. [6] The males have much larger jaws than the females, though both sexes will stridulate and bite when threatened. [11] Harem of 5 adult females and one male Wellington tree wētā ( Hemideina crassidens) Avatar' Sequels Progress to Next Level as Weta Digital Begins Visual Effects Work". Variety. 30 July 2017. Lord of the Rings special effects company Weta Digital launches inquiry into toxic workplace claims". The Guardian. 18 September 2020. Fractured' culture at Weta Digital will be overhauled after bullying, sexual harassment allegations". Stuff. 23 December 2020.
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES: Dan Lemmon – VFX Supervisor – Weta Digital". Art of VFX. 23 September 2011.Wētā is a loanword, from the Māori-language word wētā, which refers to this whole group of large insects; some types of wētā have a specific Māori name. [2] In New Zealand English, it is spelled either "weta" or "wētā", although the form with macrons is increasingly common in formal writing, as the Māori word weta (without macrons) instead means "filth or excrement". [3] General characteristics [ edit ] New Zealand wētā are grouped into five general categories based on their physical characteristics and ecological habits. These categories are: Weta Digital and SideFX Team on Houdini in Cloud". postPerspective. 23 August 2021 . Retrieved 24 April 2022. Bleakley, Craig; Stringer, Ian; Robertson, Alastair; Hedderley, Duncan (2006). Design and use of artificial refuges for monitoring adult tree weta, Hemideina crassidens and H. thoracica . Wellington, N.Z.: Science & Technical Pub., Dept. of Conservation. ISBN 9780478140620. Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Behind the Scenes with Andy Serkis". Popular Mechanics. 14 April 2011.
Hall, Kristin (1 October 2020). " 'Toxic': Disturbing stories from behind the scenes at Weta Digital". 1 News. TVNZ . Retrieved 27 January 2022. The 11 species of giant wētā ( Deinacrida spp.) are endemic to New Zealand. [11] Giant wētā ( wētā punga in Māori) [2] are large by insect standards. They are heavy herbivorous Orthoptera with a body length of up to 100mm (3.9in), excluding their long legs and antennae, and weigh about 20–30g. A captive giant wētā ( Deinacrida heteracantha) filled with eggs reached a record 70g, making it one of the heaviest documented insects in the world [20] and heavier than a sparrow. The largest species of giant wētā is the Little Barrier Island wētā, also known as the wētāpunga. Giant wētā tend to be less social and more passive than tree wētā ( Hemideina spp.). They are classified in the genus Deinacrida, which is Greek for "terrible grasshopper". They are found primarily on small islands off the coast of the main islands or at high elevation on New Zealand's South Island (e.g. the alpine scree wētā D. connectens), and are sometimes considered examples of island gigantism. Exclusive: Joe Letteri Discusses Wētā FX's new Facial Pipeline on Avatar 2". fxguide. 21 December 2022. How they did it: the visual effects team on Avatar: The Way Of Water gives us the 101". The A.V. Club. 26 December 2022.
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Beginning in June 2020, an investigative project by Kiwi public TV broadcaster 1 News into Wētā's workplace culture following a social media posting by former Wētā Workshop employee Layna Lazar later resulted in more than 40 current and former Weta Digital employees anonymously sharing accounts of "sexism, bullying and harassment" in September 2020. [68] [69] [70] Weta Digital Launches Weta Animated Original Content Business". Animation World Network. 18 June 2020. In 2011, Smithsonian researcher Mark Moffett stumbled upon a particularly large giant weta on a trip to New Zealand’s Little Barrier Island. An image of Moffett feeding the huge insect a carrot went viral. A New Zealand insect expert later noted to the New Zealand Herald that feeding the insects carrots is quite common. 4. It has dozens of weta cousins. Weta Digital commissions independent review". Radio New Zealand. 17 September 2020. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020 . Retrieved 18 September 2020.
For Rise of the Planet of the Apes in 2011, the company was able to develop their motion capture technique to be able to leave the studio for shooting on location. [26] [27] [28] The motion capture technology would be improved in the 2014 sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. [29] [30] [31] This was further refined in War for the Planet of the Apes in 2017. [32] [33] [34] [35] Independent review of Weta Digital uncovers dozens of complaints". New Zealand Herald. 23 December 2020.Morgan-Richards, M. (1995). "A new species of tree weta from the North Island of New Zealand ( Hemideina: Stenopelmatidae: Orthoptera)". New Zealand Entomologist. 18: 15–23. doi: 10.1080/00779962.1995.9721996. They have extra-long antennae, [31] and may have long, slender legs and a passive demeanour. Although they have no hearing organs on their front legs like species of Hemideina and Deinacrida, some (such as Talitropsis) are very sensitive to ground vibrations sensed through pads on their feet. Specialised hairs on the cerci and organs on the antennae are also sensitive to low-frequency vibrations in the air. a b Richards, Aola M. (1961). "Some Observations on New Zealand Cave-wetas". Tuatara. 9 (2): 80–83. Weta Digital & SideFX Collaboration Enhances Cloud Production with Houdini". Computer Graphics World. 25 August 2021 . Retrieved 24 April 2022. In 2010, a texture painting application developed by the studio for Avatar called Mari has been bought by The Foundry Visionmongers. [23] For The Adventures of Tintin and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, the studio developed a new grooming system called Barbershop where users can interactively manipulate digital hair. This tool received a Sci-tech award in 2015. [24] The Adventures of Tintin was Weta Digital's first fully animated feature film. [25]
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