With Tuesday’s announcement of Unity purchasing Weta Digital’s VFX tech division for $1.6 billion, we’re going to witness a metaverse alliance between the two companies. This means Weta-style real-time virtual production of the magnitude that Ilm and Epic achieved with “The Mandalorian,” greater cinematic-style gaming, and the eventual push toward interactive 3D content, all wrapped around a cloud-based rendering workflow that democratizes Weta’s sophisticated toolset for millions of new artists. Oh, yes, it also means that Weta Digital co-founder Peter Jackson is now a billionaire and his fledgling animated division now has the capital to make its own original content.
Unity, the industry powerhouse platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content, acquired Weta’s tools, pipeline, technology, and 275 engineers. This encompasses the dozens of proprietary hardware and software that brought “The Lord of the Rings,” “Avatar,” “The Planet of the Apes” trilogy,...
Unity, the industry powerhouse platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content, acquired Weta’s tools, pipeline, technology, and 275 engineers. This encompasses the dozens of proprietary hardware and software that brought “The Lord of the Rings,” “Avatar,” “The Planet of the Apes” trilogy,...
- 11/10/2021
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
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