I wish we could be reporting more Marvel Avengers news, but alas, the Justice League movie is what's actually going into production first. An update from The Dominion Post has confirmed that Peter ...

WETA is using the new ProLiant BL2x220c blade that lets users cram 12 TFLOPS in a rack about which I wrote in detail here. This blade is part of HP’s launch of its new Scalable Computing & ...

Weta Digital has forged a deal with Amazon Web Services for the tech-giant’s cloud-based setup for visual effects and animation. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but the strategic incentives ...

ABC News' Ginger Zee goes behind the scenes at the effects studio Weta Digital. — -- ABC News' Ginger Zee got a behind-the-scene glimpse into the making of the upcoming "War for the Planet of the ...

NVIDIA Collaborates With Weta to Accelerate Visual Effects for Avatar CHALLENGE: Avatar, the breakthrough stereoscopic 3D feature film from James Cameron and Twentieth Century Fox opened on December ...

Weta created the Oscar-winning VFX on 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Avatar.' By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Publicly traded tech firm Unity has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Peter ...

Peter Jackson's Weta has launched an animation studio. The 'Lord of the Rings' helmer and writer/producer Fran Walsh plan to direct, write and produced animated features as the growing studio hires ...

Unity, the company best known for its line of popular video game engines, has announced plans to purchase the tech division of the Peter Jackson-led, New Zealand-based visual-effects studio Weta ...