Weta DIGITAL

ovember 2009 saw Weta Digital’s first internal release of its current Deep Compositing toolset, replacing tools written for compositing Avatar in Shake. The switch to Nuke was an opportunity to update and improve the tools. That initial release contained just four basic operations as separate nodes. By November 2019, 230 releases later, there were over 80 but the underlying framework remains. In-house tools rarely