![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A set of tools that combined procedural and interactive techniques added wind to the five million individual strands of fur and modeled interaction with other surfaces. Kong's fur also required the development of new simulation and modeling software. To recreate 1933 New York for King Kong, the company created CityBot, an application which could "build" the city on a shot by shot basis. The scale of the battles required for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy led to the creation of MASSIVE, a program which can animate huge numbers of agents: independent characters acting according to pre-set rules. The studio has developed several proprietary software packages to achieve groundbreaking visual effects. ![]() As of 2023, Wētā FX has won seven Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), King Kong (2005), Avatar (2009), The Jungle Book (2016), and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). The company was founded by Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, and Jamie Selkirk in 1993 to produce the digital special effects for the film Heavenly Creatures. Previous logo with a New Zealand Wētā on top of the logo. ![]()
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