Unity buys Weta Digital’s tools and engineers

Weta’s Digital Tools have just barely made their public debut when Unity swoops in and picks them up for a cool billion and a half bucks, or $1.625 billion to be more precise. Weta Studios has long had a talented development team, who have made their mark in film with credits for Avatar, Black Widow, King Kong, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Planet of the Apes, Wonder Woman but over the years those tools have been built for internal use within Weta. The plan is for Unity to commercialize Weta’s tools and make them widely available to millions