Weta Workshop Continues Winning Streak With Disney’s Skyrunners
Kiwi company Weta Workshop, the multiple Academy Award-winning leader in motion capture, special makeup, creature and visual effects (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong and Chronicles of Narina etc), will design and provide the practical alien creature effects for the movie Skyrunners on Disney’s XD channel.
“Skyrunners†stars Joey Pollari and Kelly Blatz as teenage brothers Tyler and Nick Burns who command a small UFO that crashed near their town. The brothers uncover a plot to take over earth by aliens and the battle is on to save the planet.
“Skyrunners†is directed by Ralph Hemecker (â€Numb3rsâ€) and written by Richard C. Okie (â€Quantum Leap†and “Earth: Final Conflictâ€) along with Adam Wilson & Melanie Wilson. Disney XD is an American digital cable television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company that mostly airs children’s animated television series.
This comes right on the heels of success of Richard Taylor business awards, the children’s show The Wot Wots, the start of the Motion Capture for Tintin, the work on the Hobbit series and many other projects. According to the government, Peter Jackson related projects have bought over $NZ 2 Billion worth of work to Wellington.
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Congratulations, Weta Workshop for your success.
Very nice & great info
Thank You
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Volkan Kucuk
I like the grasshopper. It’s really creative.
So whats with the huge cricket, is it their mascot or something?
As for the quality of their work, you will get no argument from me.
@sire: hey thats a Weta, a native insect in NZland. We have most ugly insect ever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta
Sort looks like a prehistoric grasshopper doesn’t it?
@sire: if you mean Deinacrida heteracantha then you are right. The translation of its name is demon grasshopper.
@: Yeah sure thing mate, that’s exactly what I meant.
@Sire: The Weta is no more crazy than say duct taping a duck bill on the front of a wombat and claiming it as an endangered animal.
I remain highly skeptical that you aussies have such a creature. I think aussies had kiwi-endangered-species envy.
@: Nah, we got em alright. I’ve seen em and they don’t look anything like wombat. You guys are just jealous lol
Thanks for sharing.