Game engine maker Unity has announced its intent to acquire Weta Digital, the New Zealand-based VFX studio owned by Percy Jackson that's behind the special effects in films including Jackson's ...

Unity has entered an agreement to acquire VFX platform Weta Digital, with aims to lean further into the metaverse.

Weta Digital, one of the world’s premier visual effects companies founded by Sir Peter Jackson, has sold its visual effects tech division to Unity.

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Unity Software Inc will buy Weta Digital, a visual effects (VFX) studio known for its work in movies such as "Godzilla vs. Kong" and "Avatar" in a $1.63 billion cash-and-stock deal, the companies ...

Unity acquired Weta Digital in 2021, and Ziva Dynamics in 2022, and will now make their tools available to the whole VFX industry, rather than only high-end VFX houses, under the Weta Tools division.

Meanwhile, in relation to Sherman, Unity has packaged up the film’s assets and workflow tools so that users of Unity version 2018.4 can begin working on their own project straight away.