Wellington the Weta Workshop

Wellington became a famous film making city with the success of the films “Lord of the Rings” and “the Hobbit”. Peter Jackson was the film maker. In 2014 we had visited the museum in Blenheim where he had created an Air Museum focussing on the WWI planes some of which are still flown. The Weta Workshop is now a regular tourist destination where you can see how many of the models have been made over the years. Initially the models were moved mechanically. Then they were created and digitised. Nowadays most film making uses digitally developed models and there is a separate company called Weta Digital that contributes to many block buster movies.