Post Tagged with: "Weta Workshop"

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth

This amazing stained glass featuring a map of Middle-earth was created by Gerard Baines as his exam piece retraining in stain glass art. What do you think? Does he pass? (Lily Milos via Joe Gilronan) TomTom, the […]

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth

This gorgeous hobbit hole cake was made by the Pink Cake Box bakery in Denville, New Jersey for a very lucky 5 year-old’s Hobbit-themed birthday party. It almost looks too good to eat! (Evie Bowman) […]

Weta: From CGI to 3D Printing

A decade ago Weta Digital led the way in CGI, creating  wonderful digital characters such as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now their sister company, Weta Workshop, is doing the same in the printing of 3D props. […]

Win a Signed ‘Hobbit’ Artwork Book from Weta!

Chromacon is an Annual Independent Illustration and Comics Arts Festival held in Auckland, New Zealand. It is a grassroots effort to showcase original New Zealand art and promote self-published work. Admission is free at this […]

Weta’s New Bombur Statue

Today Weta Workshop released a scale figure of Bombur which is their first Limited Edition 1/6 scale figure from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. “Bombur may be somewhat innocent in the ways of the world and not as […]

The Hobbit Lands Technical Oscar

During the pre-Oscars ceremony, The Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards held in Los Angeles, California this year, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey won an Oscar! It was awarded to Simon Clutterbuck, James Jacobs and Dr. Richard Dorling. The Scientific […]

New Book to Come from Weta

If you enjoyed WETA’s first Chronicles book, you’re going love their new one! It’s entitled The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles, Creatures & Characters. This new book will have a foreword by Andy Serkis and it showcases all […]

Weta, Windows, and Wellington

Earlier, on Middle-earth Network’s A Long Expected Journey to New Zealand, Arwen and the gang stopped by the Weta Cave… Once in Wellington, the very first thing our tour group hit up was the Weta […]

Prosthetics Supervisor Tami Lane Talks The Hobbit

Academy Award winner Tami Lane supervised all the prosthetic makeup for The Hobbit.  She talked to LA Times Hero Complex about preparing the dwarves and the challenge Peter Jackson’s decision to film in 48 fps gave her. […]

The Weather in Elvish

Wasn’t it great the way the Kiwis found different ways to celebrate the world premiere of The Hobbit? One of my favourites was the reporter who took on the challenge from Tourism New Zealand to […]