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Weta Digital letter

Friday, 3 April 2009 8:45:22 p.m.

Weta Digital Ltd.
P.O Box 15208
9-11 Manuka Street
Miramar, Wellington
New Zealand 6022

Dear Sir / Madam,

We are a group of forth year digital media design students from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. As a group we have been given a task in researching different types of management styles within different companies. Our area of research is to specifically look at small to medium groups, who work together on projects.

The project entails interviewing a person from your company, writing a report and presenting the information about what your company’s style of management is. We would like to interview a representative of Weta Digital Ltd design team, regarding the inner working styles of that team, how they relate and function.

Once we have compiled the report, we will be presenting that information back to fourth year students. This will allow them to have some knowledge of what is involve when working within a team environment. Any information and communications from Weta Digital Ltd and their representative person will be kept strictly confidential and not be publicized to the wider community.

We would be very grateful if you have a person within your organization that would be willing to communicate with a team of students in their final year.

We thank you for your time and look forward to hearing from you.

Yours Sincerely Elizabeth Te Aho

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I made contact with Weta Digital Ltd on the 3rd of April 2009, they reply on "Tuesday, 7 April 2009".

They are unable to help us because they are very busy with multiple deadlines at the moment and are unable to spare anyone for an interview.

How is everyone else going with their emails?

Hello World and Template Letter for Companies.

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Me Jeff and Mark wrote this template today for your email to you company please send off this email during the weekend.




Letter to the Company of your choice, use this document as a template but feel free to add more or change things as you see fit. Taylor it to the company / person you are wanting to make contact with.


Dear Sir / Madam of Insert Company Name Here,

We are a group of forth year digital media design students from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Currently we are researching different types of management styles within different companies. As a group we are specifically looking at small to medium groups that work together on projects.

The project entails interviewing a company / team designer, writing a report and presenting the information about that style to the class. This information will not be publicized and will be kept strictly confidential.

We would like to interview you, or a representative of your design team. Regarding the inner working styles of that team, how they relate and function. Would it be a possibility to use your organisation or design team member to communicate with for this project?


Thank you for your time



Yours sincerely

Insert Name Here

Web Weaver Productions

Web Weaver Productions link>>>>



Worked on the weta digital website link>>>

About Alison Green:

I'm Alison Green, and under the name WebWeaver Productions I have been designing, building and developing award-winning websites since 1996. In that time I've worked on over 150 sites, ranging in size from 5 pages to 1,000. I've worked as both an employee and a contractor with design companies including Shift, Origin Design, Oryx Technologies, Base Two, CWA New Media and Mission Hall, and built other websites for individual clients.

You can see most of the websites I've had a hand in creating in my web portfolio. You will find my work history in my career snapshot. The latest version of my web design/development resumé is also available as a PDF (276KB). You will need Acrobat Reader to view PDFs, which you can download for free at the Adobe website.

I have worked with many other talented designers, web developers and programmers - I feel privileged to have been a part of so many great teams at various design agencies. My programming partner for the last few years has been Tom St George - who was also a colleague at Shift for three years. Together we design, build and integrate beautiful websites for a range of clients.

I also teach web design, and have written and run a number of web design courses in New Zealand and Australia. I've been known to dabble in multimedia occasionally - let me tell you about the time my friends and I made a 40-minute documentary for under $1,000. (It's really good, too!)

I've done a few other things - like helping to organise New Zealand's biggest outdoor dance festival on top of a mountain in the middle of nowhere - but these days I tend to stick around Wellington and do what I do best - design and build websites.

Weta - Software engineering

Maybe a possible person to contact:

Jack Greasley:

"Jack Greasley is a senior R&D Engineer at Weta Digital specializing in interactive artist tools. He has been working in Visual Effects for 6 years now (Previously at Framestore-CFC in London) and before that worked in the TV and games industries. He has written software that has been used on Harry Potters 3,4 and 5, Troy, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Fantastic Four, and the upcoming James Cameron film Avatar. His main areas of interest are GPU acceleration of image processing techniques, large image dataset managment, GUI techniques for artist use and photorealistic realtime rendering. He is currently running a project at Weta to create a 3D texture painting system. "

link to article>>

Software engineering for visual effects at Weta Digital

Date: Friday 6 March
Time: 3:10 p.m. Location: Room 031, Erskine Building
Contact: For further information regarding this event, please contact Dr. R. Mukundan by sending email to mukundan@canterbury.ac.nz or by calling 7770
Audience: University staff and students

Computer Science and Software Engineering is hosting a seminar by Marcus Schoo and Jack Greasley on "Software engineering for visual effects at Weta Digital".

(Note: Weta Digital has requested that no part of the seminar be recorded in any form)

Synopsis:

The seminar will give an overview of some of the technologies, methodologies, problems and peculiarities of writing software in a film production environment. The aim of the seminar would be to give the students some idea of what it can be like in the real world when deadlines and creative demands drive development. The talk also will cover some of the more cutting edge techniques we've been developing for GPU acceleration of real-time tools and natural effects.

Biography:

Marcus Schoo graduated with BSc (Mathematics, Computer Science) and BSc Hons (Computer Science) from the University of Canterbury in 2006. Since then he has been an R&D Engineer at Weta Digital, specialising in interactive artists tools, specifically relating to texturing/painting and lighting. The code he has written has been used on The Chronicles of Narnia, Jumper, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and James Cameron's upcoming Avatar. More recently he has started working on ways to approximate slow production quality lighting techniques in realtime.

Jack Greasley is a senior R&D Engineer at Weta Digital specializing in interactive artist tools. He has been working in Visual Effects for 6 years now (Previously at Framestore-CFC in London) and before that worked in the TV and games industries. He has written software that has been used on Harry Potters 3,4 and 5, Troy, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Fantastic Four, and the upcoming James Cameron film Avatar. His main areas of interest are GPU acceleration of image processing techniques, large image dataset managment, GUI techniques for artist use and photorealistic realtime rendering. He is currently running a project at Weta to create a 3D texture painting system.

Weta digital list - http://www.imdb.com

1. The Hobbit 2 (2012) ... Special Effects Company
2. Halo (2012) ... Special Effects Company
3. The Hobbit (2012) ... Special Effects Company
4. The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn (2011) ... Special Effects Company
5. Avatar (2009) ... Special Effects Company
6. The Lovely Bones (2009) ... Special Effects Company
7. The Warrior's Way (2009) ... Special Effects Company
8. The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) ... Special Effects Company (visual effects)
9. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) ... Special Effects Company
10. The Water Horse (2007) ... Special Effects Company (visual effects and creature animation)
11. Enchanted (2007) ... Special Effects Company (additional visual effects)
12. 30 Days of Night (2007) ... Special Effects Company (visual effects)
13. Heavenly Sword (2007) (VG) ... Special Effects Company
14. 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) ... Special Effects Company (digital visual effects)
15. Bridge to Terabithia (2007) ... Special Effects Company (visual effects)
16. Clubland (2007) ... Special Effects Company (film recording)
17. Eagle vs Shark (2007) ... Special Effects Company (film scanning and recording)
18. Night at the Museum (2006) ... Special Effects Company (additional visual effects)
19. Eragon (2006) ... Special Effects Company (visual effects)
20. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) ... Special Effects Company (digital visual effects designed and created by) (as Weta Digital Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand)
21. King Kong (2005) ... Special Effects Company (digital visual effects)
22. The World's Fastest Indian (2005) ... Special Effects Company (scanning services)
23. I, Robot (2004) ... Special Effects Company (digital visual effects)
24. Van Helsing (2004) ... Special Effects Company (visual effects)
25. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) ... Special Effects Company (digital visual effects)
26. Maximum Surge Movie (2003) (TV) ... Special Effects Company
27. Two Cars, One Night (2003) ... Special Effects Company (digital imaging)
28. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) ... Special Effects Company (digital visual effects)
29. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) ... Special Effects Company (digital visual effects designer and creator)
30. The Price of Milk (2000) ... Special Effects Company (cgi)
31. Contact (1997) ... Special Effects Company
32. Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997) (TV) ... Special Effects Company (uncredited)
33. The Frighteners (1996) ... Special Effects Company (creature and digital effects)
34. Forgotten Silver (1995) (TV) ... Special Effects Company
35. Heavenly Creatures (1994) ... Special Effects Company
36. Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994) (TV) ... Special Effects Company (creature, makeup and digital effects)
37. Jack Brown Genius (1994) ... Special Effects Company
38. Loaded (1994) ... Special Effects Company (bird sequence)

link to site>>

Weta - links

Weta workshop link >>>

Here you can get a background of weta workshop

Weta Digital link >>>

Here is the digital connection there does not seem to be placement for newbies.

General enquiries

Weta Digital Ltd.
P.O Box 15208
9-11 Manuka Street
Miramar, Wellington
New Zealand 6022

Phone: + 644 380 9080
Fax: + 644 380 9010
Email: digital@wetafx.co.nz

Publicity

Email: publicity@wetafx.co.nz

Recruiting

Email: recruitment@wetafx.co.nz

Sales and marketing

Email: sales@wetafx.co.nz

Film scanning and recording

Email: scanrecord@wetafx.co.nz