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Design
Weta Workshops Design Department is made up of a team of talented artists, designers and creative minds. They are a team of inspirational thinkers who can create worlds, characters, environments, costumes, vehicles, weapons, cultures and fantastical mythologies.
Sculpting
The sculpting room at Weta is perhaps the one place where imagination most tangibly comes to life.
Make-up & Prosthetics
The word Make-Up may lead you to believe that this is about improving the look of something. Well, it is, in our own little way.
Costuming
Weta's award winning specialty costumes don't happen by accident. There is a depth and breadth of knowledge and skills that is absolutely flabberghasting in the costuming department.
Miniatures & Model Making
There was a time, not that long ago, when there were no alternatives to using models and miniatures in movies to create new worlds, fantastical architecture and natural disasters.
Armour, Weapons & Props
This department could easily be mistaken for an arms manufacturing plant for time travellers. One day there's a cache of WWII German machine guns racked up and awaiting dispatch
Engineering
All is not make-believe at Weta. Occasionally we're thrown a curveball that requires skills in mechanics, building vehicles for this universe or far-off galaxies.
Moulding
The Moulding department makes (in their own words) anything from scars and warts to tanks and cannons. That's a pretty wide brief.
Painting & Finishing
For most of the amazing props, miniatures, costumes and vehicles that emerge from Weta, the final transformation is done by the talented crew in the Painting and Finishing department.
3D Modelling & Printing
This department uses words like 3D, digital, scanning, laser, plasma and other sci-fi terminology. Although what they produce to the untrained eye perhaps isn't a million miles away from
