Miramar, Wellington, 6022,
New Zealand
Weta Fx New Zealand Technographics
Discover the latest software purchases and digital transformation initiatives being undertaken by Weta Fx New Zealand and its business and technology executives. Each quarter our research team identifies on-prem and cloud applications that are being used by the 1200 Weta Fx New Zealand employees from the public (Press Releases, Customer References, Testimonials, Case Studies and Success Stories) and proprietary sources.
During our research, we have identified that Weta Fx New Zealand has purchased the following applications: Autodesk Mudbox for 3D Modeling in 2005, Netapp Flexcache for Servers, Storage and Networking in 2010 and the related IT decision-makers and key stakeholders.
Our database provides customer insight and contextual information on which enterprise applications and software systems Weta Fx New Zealand is running and its propensity to invest more and deepen its relationship with Autodesk , Maxon , Pixar Animation Studios or identify new suppliers as part of their overall Digital and IT transformation projects to stay competitive, fend off threats from disruptive forces, or comply with internal mandates to improve overall enterprise efficiency.
We have been analyzing Weta Fx New Zealand revenues, which have grown to $120.0 million in 2024, plus its IT budget and roadmap, cloud software purchases, aggregating massive amounts of data points that form the basis of our forecast assumptions for Weta Fx New Zealand intention to invest in emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, IoT, Blockchain, Autonomous Database or in cloud-based ERP, HCM, CRM, EPM, Procurement or Treasury applications.
PLM and Engineering
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| Autodesk | Legacy | Autodesk Mudbox | 3D Modeling | PLM and Engineering | n/a | 2005 | 2005 |
In 2005, Weta FX New Zealand implemented Autodesk Mudbox as part of its VFX production pipeline for Peter Jackson's King Kong. Autodesk Mudbox, categorized in the 3D Modeling category, was applied to character and creature asset creation to support high-resolution sculpting and detailed surface work.
Artists at Weta FX used Autodesk Mudbox's brush-based sculpting and texture painting capabilities to create fine surface detail and generate displacement-ready high-resolution meshes for downstream rendering. The implementation emphasized interactive artist tooling on local workstations within the VFX art department and file-based exchange with the studio's modeling and rendering stages to maintain pipeline continuity.
Deployment was executed inside Weta's in-house production environment in New Zealand, where adoption influenced iterative pipeline practices and artist-driven feature development that helped inform Mudbox's subsequent commercial evolution. The use of Autodesk Mudbox at Weta FX New Zealand directly supported the character modeling business function and enabled delivery of the detailed creature assets required for the film.
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IaaS
Vendor |
Previous System |
Application |
Category |
Market |
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Insight |
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| NetApp | Legacy | Netapp Flexcache | Servers, Storage and Networking | IaaS | Fujitsu | 2010 | 2010 |
In 2010, Weta Fx New Zealand implemented Netapp Flexcache as part of a high-performance storage strategy for its Media & Entertainment rendering operations under the Servers, Storage and Networking category. The deployment focused on accelerating texture and asset access for large-scale film rendering and VFX workloads to reduce repetitive remote reads and manual data movement across render nodes.
Netapp Flexcache was configured to provide distributed caching and local read locality for production assets, enabling cache volumes to serve frequently accessed textures and geometry near render compute. Configuration work emphasized cache population, eviction policies, and read optimization to align with film rendering workflows and large file sets.
Fujitsu New Zealand served as the delivery partner for the implementation, integrating Netapp Flexcache with Weta Fx New Zealand production storage and the studio render pipeline. Operational coverage targeted VFX production, rendering operations, and asset management teams within the New Zealand studio, ensuring cache visibility and access patterns matched production schedules and shot throughput requirements.
Governance and rollout included staged deployment across render clusters with operational handover to studio storage engineers and updated asset ingestion processes to leverage caching behavior. NetApp reported approximately 95 percent reduction in manual data movement, and the project delivered significant operational gains for Weta Fx New Zealand’s rendering throughput and asset management workflows.
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