Animals whose names start with the letter W are quite rare, so we invite you to discover which ones they are and the ...

We gotta talk. Narrator: One of the hardest jobs in visual effects is making animals look realistic when they talk. It's a challenge effects studio Weta Digital has taken on. And if you look at ...

Some features were “very Robbie” and other features were “very ape.” Millar explains that Weta focused in particular on Williams’ eyes — eyebrows and the color and shape of the eyes ...

One of our first assignments was to capture a little known species of tusked weta. Wetas are an ancient lineage of insects related to crickets, which in New Zealand take the place of rodents.

To do this, the production enlisted “The Lord of the Rings” visual effects studio Weta FX to create an emotive computer-generated monkey as the lead character. The studio knows a thing or two ...

Perhaps the most extreme adaptation of all New Zealand’s bizarre invertebrate fauna is that of the mountain stone weta. In the extremely ... of Conservation and animals from one of their captive ...