Wētā Workshop Unleashed: tours.wetaworkshop.com/unleashed/ See photos from the exhibition at instagram.com/wetaworkshopunleashed The Production Design of Wētā Workshop Unleashed: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nm2euMx6hczYkdo.html Creating a Bigature for Wētā Workshop Unleashed: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hqZprKSCmbuvaJs.html Stay tuned for more videos from Adam's visit behind the scenes of Wētā Workshop Unleashed!

@vayde

Жыл бұрын

@13:14 Animax is mentioned - I can see online that Tested has visited them but can't find any video on KZread - is this released? Looks like a cool place, I'm very curious! Thanks

@jeevanrajlazarious346

Жыл бұрын

Is this like fnaf???

I wish that show would tour. This just sounds like an incredible experience.

Hearing that this exhibit will be lasting for years gives me great hope that I might actually be able to hop down to NZ and experience it first hand. This stuff is just so amazing.

@slof69

Жыл бұрын

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Incredibly proud of Rod and our Animatronics team!♥Unleashed is now an utter delight! Do visit if and when you can

I'm currently interning at Animax Designs as a mechanical design intern. It's great seeing companies like Weta doing impressive animatronics as well!

Rod just wants to get back to work.

I love how the ceo brought in the engineer/puppeteer just to demo it but Adam being Adam directed most of his questions and admiration to him

@FlatlineEDM

Жыл бұрын

For real tho, lab coat taking all the credit when baseball cap actually built the damn thing lol

I can watch videos with Adam, Richard and the entire Wētā team for hours and hours... I want it all! Love it!

What astounds me about this interview is how open and honest Richard is about the work they are doing. I have been in engineering for some years and it's often very hard for management to hold on to that when the public is around.

Sometimes I wish I was 18 instead of 73. Technology is a wonderful thing and amazing as far as the things to come. I can only wonder where we will be in 50 years! Thanks …… a very cool video!

I build animatronic puppets in my basement, and seeing how many different kinds of implementations they’ve found are insanely inspiring

Genius.. WW do some amazing stuff.. Missed my Weta Workshop job opportunity by two days. I used to make chain armour and had some hoods for sale in a history store.. Richard was hunting for weapon and armour smiths in Oz when LotR was about to start production.. saw my work.. and tried to sign me up.. Owners of the store desperately tried to get hold of me, but I was camping out of phone range.. By the time I had returned, they were back in NZ and the Number I had been left with was no longer working.. Have never been camping since. :D

@majuss06

Жыл бұрын

Oh man. I assume you are doing well, but even so… I am guessing that is a major "could have been" that you will for ever sometimes wonder about?

I live in Auckland and there has been no advertising for this🤯, now that ive seen this I plan on going for a look, thank you for posting I would not have known otherwise

Amazing. Glad you showed us

Have been to it and loved it. A few things were intentionally a bit cheesy, but that was cool too. Would recommend it. You get to interact with some things even in the basic tour.

Great stuff indeed!

That whole rig looks terrifying... Those bloodshot eyes with the cold steel!

Thanks so much for taking us into these workshops that we could only dream of experiencing for ourselves. 😂 Very cool video.

It was nice to hear them refer to the Na'vi head... that was a heck of a project :) So many amazing people worked on that!

great vid, rly respect richard for coming across very honest

I can't wait to see this kind of thing develop further into the uncanny. Would love to see their show.

Always watching your videos I wondered thanks sir.

Hey Adam & Crew! I've been a major fan of all the content you've been pushing out, and have a question for you: When looking for high quality mics for recording in the shop, are there any that stick out to you? It's very difficult for me to justify getting a nice clip on mic if I plan to use it in the dusty shop. If you could let me know or point me in the right direction I'd GREATLY appreciate it, and I'm sure others will too! Keep posting great content, thank you!

I got to experience this first hand it was amazing

I've got my tickets booked for this in a few weeks.

Incredible

I’m imagining like a theme park centered around d and d. With npc animatronics who have questlines

What was the Garner Holt book you guys mentioned?

Is the book by Garner Holt still in print? I would like to buy a copy.

HA..! I have that book sitting on my shelf...!!!!!

Hope you enjoyed New Zealand mate.

Wow, I was hoping this was going to be educational. I'm happily mind-blown.

As a tool maker the challenge to Make all them parts looks fun.

I just wish they could link those online resources they were talking about. I can't find anything on a lip mechanism like that, and its super frustrating. adam help me, your my only hope... well you and this comment section ; P

If this exhibit needs maintenance, will there be a complete second character to swap out - in other words will they build more than one these robots?

I want to know what servos they use for their animatronics, as they seem so quiet.

@assassinlexx1993

Жыл бұрын

I think that is why those servos are so expensive. Got to have deep pockets to afford them.

@fxsmdlp

Жыл бұрын

They are using Robotis Dynamixel servo motors

@dmm8658

Жыл бұрын

@@fxsmdlp thank you very much.

I love that he's wearing a labyrinth T-shirt :)

Links for some parts ?

This kid, Lucas VRTech has a diy glove that inputs hand and finger position to VR. I wonder if there's an application for puppeteering these awesome bots with them.

What computer program was the digital model made from?

@macewindex

Жыл бұрын

Solitaire.

How does Weta have "Budgetary Constraints"?

I would love for fx workshops to perfect the animatronic movements, not such harsh stops with the limbs.

I swear, it’ll be Companies like this one who will solve the A.I. Equation faster than the robotic scientists instead!! THIS PEEKS MY CREATIVE CURIOSITY TO THE MOON AND BACK!!!! 🤩

With that accent and knowing what servo is in Australian I kept thinking of that all the time. (Yes I know they are from New Zealand, it just reminds me of Australian)

@ohtrueyeahnah

Жыл бұрын

They putting gas stations in these animatronics wtf!?

It is a shame that carbon fiber is so expensive. In this situation to be able to mold a custom head to mount all the parts.

So animal tour next?

Still very happy with my little Alien from Alien, still freaking out guests if they browse my room lolzzz

Cgi is nice, but real props are just magic :-))

Why the controller? why not just map it to a live actors face and have them act the scenes in real time.

@bigdadgigachad3042

Жыл бұрын

Testing,

@swag7185

Жыл бұрын

Just so they can test the whole mechanism while building it. They will likely do that when they finish the whole build

I'm having dejavu watching this intro -- is this a reupload?

@NBSV1

Жыл бұрын

Yes. They’re showing some older content to get people excited for what’s coming with Weta doing the show.

I’m convinced Taika Waititi based Korg on this guy Rob lol

As much as I love the idea of living longer, one thing that I wonder about is whether we will socially stagnate by people living longer. Consider the old adage, "science advances one funeral at a time." As Max Planck so eloquently said of this problem in science, it's "another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth." Looking across our population as a whole, by and large it is younger generations pushing changes and introducing and adopting innovative ideas, and it's the older generations often pushing back against the adoption of those ideas. If people are living longer, we end up creating a larger percentage of the population as much older and a much smaller percentage of youth pushing changes, making critical mass for change much harder to achieve. As much as I would love to live a greatly extended lifespan (in good health of course), I do wonder about this problem, and it's one that is rarely discussed in these discussions on living longer.

will work for food :)

It's so weird hearing my countries accent in amongst Adam's!

Thanks.

Cool

Rod doesn't seem thrilled

@jefff3000

Жыл бұрын

He’s afraid of interrupting his boss!

@seank8689

Жыл бұрын

Mk 1 Kiwi bloke in the wild. Also, Rod works in animatronics puppetry. Almost as good as Doug working as a gardener.

I really wish I was born with whatever the mechanical minded gene is. But I’m sure some of those people consider it a curse lol.

@deadaccount6135

Жыл бұрын

@Mr.dudebro Nah dude it's not a curse, but the problem is it doesn't necessarily help you solve problems. In my experience in all aspects of life it comes down to what you know, i.e. the more variety of stuff you can study the better, and 2nd, who you know, never know one chance meeting an individual could be your ticket to something.

@messengerangel5388

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Not a curse, nessesarily. Just has its own burdens, like any personality

Slap some skin on it

No, whatever you are thinking of doing with that animatronic, stop it, and i mean stop it RIGHT now

Taika waititi?

Sex androids by 2040?

Disappointed at the low level of fnaf jokes

Lol, everything from servos, to metal spaces, and metal rods you can buy over counter lol. Nothing revolutionary from Weta.

@waltron744

Жыл бұрын

Why spend time and money making something custom when parts already exist off the shelf?

@seank8689

Жыл бұрын

I don't think Rod was into Metal - looked slightly bogan with his Motor racing cap.

I have to say the Boss man has the most boring monotone voice and could not do stand up comedy. Just saying….

@seank8689

Жыл бұрын

Steven Wright has cornered the market.