Weta FX

Weta FX

https://www.wetafx.co.nz/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/weta-fx/

Weta FX is a privately owned company headquartered in New Zealand, with approximately 1400 employees. The company offers solutions for visual effects and animation in the world of digital entertainment.

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Founded

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Headcount

1,391

Headquarters

New Zealand

Primary Segment

Graphics

Ownership

Privately Owned

News Summary:

On March 14, 2026, Wētā FX’s Vancouver, Wellington, and Melbourne hubs were part of the team behind the Academy Award-winning film "Avatar: Fire and Ash." The film grossed approximately US $1.379 billion worldwide, with US$378.5 million from North American audiences. Previously, on February 25, 2026, "Avatar: Fire and Ash" dominated the 24th Visual Effects Society Awards, winning seven awards from 10 nominations. These included the top Visual Effects Society Award for outstanding VFX in a photoreal feature, outstanding character in a photoreal feature for Varang, outstanding CG cinematography, and the Emerging Technology Award for the Kora Fire Toolset.

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Mar

17th

2026

00:38

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Responsible AI in New Zealand Creative Industries: 7 Facts

The conversation around digital algorithms in art usually goes one of two ways. People either panic about machines stealing jobs, or they praise the technology as a magic wand that will fix every production bottleneck. But if you look at what is happening down in Aotearoa, you see a completely different story.

Mar

15th

2026

18:30

Awards and Recognitions

Former BU students celebrating Oscars success

Two former Bournemouth University (BU) students are celebrating the success of contributing to two Oscar winning films. Fernando Morillo, who graduated BU in 2014 with a Master’s in Visual Effects was part of the team at Sony Pictures Imageworks that worked on ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ which won an Oscar in the category of Best Animated Feature category.

Bournemouth University

Mar

14th

2026

18:30

Awards and Recognitions

Vancouver's Wētā FX and ILM part of team behind Academy Award winning Avatar: Fire and Ash

Article content Wētā FX’s Wellington and Melbourne hubs also worked on the film which grossed about US $1.379 billion worldwide, with US$378.5 million of that coming from North American audiences alone. “I first and foremost, I think, thank you to our families.

Mar

5th

2026

18:30

Awards and Recognitions

New Zealand director Peter Jackson to receive honorary Palme d'Or in Cannes

After Clint Eastwood, Agnès Varda, Meryl Streep, George Lucas, and last year Robert De Niro , it's Peter Jackson's turn to be celebrated by France's biggest film festival. "Cannes has been a meaningful part of my filmmaking journey," Jackson said, recalling that he showed his first movie, Bad Taste , at the festival in 1987 .

Feb

25th

2026

17:03

Awards and Recognitions

‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ and ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Dominate at VFX Society Awards

“Avatar: Fire and Ash” has won the top Visual Effects Society Award for outstanding VFX in a photoreal feature at the 24th Visual Effects Society Awards. The film which dominated with 10 nominations, took home seven awards in total including outstanding character in a photoreal feature for Varang (played by Oona Chaplin, outstanding CG cinematography, and the Emerging Technology Award, given to the Kora Fire Toolset.

Feb

24th

2026

14:01

How Oscar-Nominated Costume Designers for ‘Hamnet,’ Frankenstein,’ ‘Sinners’ and More Stayed True to Their Film’s Period: “No Alterations”

The first conversations director Chloé Zhao and I had were about focusing on the human, personal side of the love story and tragedy of Will (Paul Mescal) and Agnes (Jessie Buckley), as opposed to William Shakespeare and Agnes Hathaway, so I started from the interiority of the characters out.

The Hollywood Reporter

Feb

23rd

2026

18:30

Events, Awards and Recognitions, Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Academy to honor 15 scientific and technical achievements

LOS ANGELES - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 15 scientific and technical achievements (www.oscars.org/sci-tech), represented by 27 individual recipients, will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 28th.

Feb

21st

2026

18:30

Awards and Recognitions

Wētā FX Win BAFTA Film Award For Avatar: Fire And Ash

Wētā FX won a BAFTA Film Award for their work on Avatar: Fire and Ash at the ceremony in London thismorning (NZDT). TheNew Zealand VFX house was represented by Wellington’s JoeLetteri, Eric Saindon, and Daniel Barrett, who received theBest Special Visual Effects award alongside Richard Banehamfrom James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment.

Feb

17th

2026

14:30

Richard Baneham and Eric Saindon on the ‘Never Easy’ Visual Effects of ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’

James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” is one of the most ambitious visual effects films ever made, a movie that used over 140 petabytes (140,000 terabytes) of disk space and employed well over a thousand personnel assigned to the effects.

Jan

6th

2026

11:25

THE BURNING AMBITION OF AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH

“There is an individual algorithm that gets created for each character, and there is some machine learning that goes into the process as well,” Cameron remarks. “We try to get the animators to be as hands-off as possible when it comes to facial.

Jan

5th

2026

15:08

KPop Demon Hunters and Elio lead the 2026 Annie Awards nominations

While most people are forging ahead, making plans for the new year, organizations are still basking in the brilliance of 2025 by celebrating the films that shone like diamonds amidst a year draped in shadow and uncertainty.

Jan

4th

2026

13:00

From capture to compute: the technology powering Avatar: Fire and Ash

James Cameron has never treated technology as an add-on to be included only late in the filmmaking process. On Avatar: Fire and Ash, that philosophy is more explicit than ever. This is a film engineered from the ground up as a technical system, in which frame rate, simulation, lighting, performance capture, and continuity logic are tightly coupled.

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