WETA Workshop: Difference between revisions

Weta Workshop is well known for their use of "Bigatures," models of places so large that using the term "miniature" is an oxymoron. Such places include the Helms Deep set and the Minas Tirith set (constructed for the ''Lord of the Rings'' films, both built in the same exact place. It may have been that bigatures would have been created of areas on Halo for the film.

[[File:Update cougarhuting.jpg|200px|thumb|Bungie employees "hunting cougars" outside the studio building with WETA-made replica weapons.]]

WETA Workshop produced weapon and equipment props for the ''[[Halo: Landfall]]'' short films, including replicas of the [[BR55 Heavy Barrel Service Rifle|Battle Rifle]] and [[Type-2 Energy Weapon/Hammer|Gravity Hammer]]. A few of these replicas were auctioned off in [http://www.ebay.com/ eBay] in July, [[2011]].<ref>[http://cgi.ebay.com/Bungie-Original-Halo-Weta-UNSC-Marine-Armor-/320721173512?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0#ht_500wt_1004 '''eBay''': Bungie: Original Halo Weta UNSC Marine Armor]</ref><ref>[http://cgi.ebay.com/Bungie-Original-Halo-Weta-UNSC-Battle-Rifle-/320722008423?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0#ht_860wt_989 '''eBay''': Bungie: Original Halo Weta UNSC Battle Rifle]</ref> In early September [[2009]], a Bungie employee was carrying the replica [[Sniper Rifle System 99D-S2 Anti-Matériel|Sniper Rifle]] in public. Mistaking it for an AK-47, a well-meaning bystander called the Kirkland police, leading to a temporary lockdown of Bungie Studios. This incident lead to the Bungie.net homepage joke "we promise to keep our sniper rifles off the street."<ref>[http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=BWU090409 '''Bungie.net''': ''Bungie Weekly Update: 09/04/09'']</ref>