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.
On February 17, 2026, Richard Baneham and Eric Saindon discussed the extensive visual effects for James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” noting the film utilized over 140 petabytes of disk space and involved more than a thousand personnel assigned to its effects. Earlier, on January 6, James Cameron remarked that the film employs individual algorithms for each character and incorporates machine learning, aiming to minimize animator involvement in facial animation. This follows insights from January 4, detailing how “Avatar: Fire and Ash” was engineered from the ground up as a technical system, tightly coupling elements such as frame rate simulation, lighting, performance capture, and continuity logic.
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