Game engine maker Unity has announced its intent to acquire Weta Digital, the New Zealand-based VFX studio owned by Peter Jackson that's behind the special effects in films including Jackson's Lord of ...

The studio, which pioneered the VFX seen in Lord of the Rings and many more blockbuster films and TV shows, is making its tools available outside Hollywood. Reading time 2 minutes Game development ...

265 people to be made redundant just over two years since it acquired Weta Digital for £1.21bn Unity has pulled out of the professional services piece of an agreement Unity struck with Weta FX in 2021 ...

The deal means democratizing Weta Digital's industry-leading toolset, more real-time virtual production, and Weta having the financing to make its own animated movies and series. With Tuesday’s ...

The Unity game engine has proved capable of some amazing visuals in the past, but nothing has quite prepared us for the realtime rendering it’s pulled off in the short film Adam, powered by nothing ...