Weta Digital is to close as Unity begins ‘company reset’, closure will affect some 265 employees https://filmstories.co.uk/news/weta-digital-is-to-close-as-unity-begins-company-reset/ I hope this is the last of the crap news from 2023 and I hope Unity mange to start turning things around for everyone involved.…
It’s hard to get my head around the numbers. It looks like Weta got 1.6 billion from Unity for Weta Digital and all the tech development tools that comes with them. Now Unity drop them but it looks like Weta FX keeps the rights to develop the Weta Digital development tools? So would I be right in saying Weta was given 1.6…
As far as I've read elsewhere, they are laying off a group of inhouse software/tools devs who were assimilated as part of an earlier merger, not closing down the entire VFX studio primarily known for the LOTR trilogy and Avatar like that video title seems to suggest. But apparently the studio is nowadays called Weta FX? I…
Hmm, sucks, i heard its bad to start "engines" from scratch but then these things happen when you are stuck and attached to "main stream" clients, being at the whim of their changes & ideas. Feeling like everything is being funneled tighter and tighter as if... mmm can't go there but yeah, starting to look strange, with…