<story><title>Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for $1.6B</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/09/unity-is-buying-peter-jacksons-weta-digital-for-over-1-6b/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tim--</author><text>Wow. Weta works on some really big films, so it will be exciting to see the work that they have done become available in the asset store.&lt;p&gt;In the PR they say:
&amp;gt; [...] the asset library we’ll inherit [...], which includes urban and natural environments, flora and fauna, humans, man-made objects, materials, textures, and more. The WetaFX team will continue their [...] work for major film and TV productions and feed into this asset library for years to come.&lt;p&gt;Peter Jackson (of LoTR fame) is one of the founders of Weta.&lt;p&gt;Sad to see another one of New Zealand&amp;#x27;s large, well known employers get sold.</text></comment>
<story><title>Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for $1.6B</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/09/unity-is-buying-peter-jacksons-weta-digital-for-over-1-6b/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throwuxiytayq</author><text>Unity is trying real hard to convince investors that it can compete with Unreal in the movie production space, while their actual capabilities are embarrassingly limited. Especially if you want to get shit done out-of-the-box, but also in terms of the max no-matter-the-budget end result quality. Hopefully they can catch up in the long run. The space needs competition.</text></comment>