The sculpting room at Weta is perhaps the one place where imagination most tangibly comes to life.
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This department uses words like 3D, digital, scanning, laser, plasma and other sci-fi terminology. Although what they produce to the untrained eye perhaps isn't a million miles away from what...
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For most of the amazing props, miniatures, costumes and vehicles that emerge from Weta, the final transformation is done by the talented crew in the Painting and Finishing department.
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The Moulding department makes (in their own words) anything from scars and warts to tanks and cannons. That's a pretty wide brief.
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There was a time, not that long ago, when there were no alternatives to using models and miniatures in movies to create new worlds, fantastical architecture and natural disasters.
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Weta Workshops Design Department is made up of a team of talented artists, designers and creative minds.
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All is not make-believe at Weta. Occasionally we're thrown a curveball that requires skills in mechanics, building vehicles for this universe or far-off galaxies.
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This department could easily be mistaken for an arms manufacturing plant for time travellers. One day there's a cache of WWII German machine guns racked up and awaiting dispatch to...
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Weta's award winning specialty costumes don't happen by accident. There is a depth and breadth of knowledge and skills that is absolutely flabberghasting in the costuming department.
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The word Make-Up may lead you to believe that this is about improving the look of something. Well, it is, in our own little way.
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