One of our first assignments was to capture a little known species of tusked weta. Wetas are an ancient lineage of insects related to crickets, which in New Zealand take the place of rodents.

It took a village of storytellers to bring “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” to life. At the heart of it all was VFX house Wētā, which had a crew of over 1000 artists working on delivering ...

Perhaps the most extreme adaptation of all New Zealand’s bizarre invertebrate fauna is that of the mountain stone weta. In the extremely damp wet landscapes of Southern New Zealand, a famously ...

In “Kingdom,” VFX studio Weta FX led by its production VFX supervisor Erik Winquist worked to advance the realism of its emotive apes in areas such as facial animation and muscle simulation ...