Wellington – Through the Interface

We arrived in Wellington on Friday just in time for lunch. We parked – based on the recommendations on CamperMate, as ever – at the Barnett Street car park. Parking a motorhome for 24 hours down by the wharf in Wellington costs just $30 NZD.

I left my family for an hour to meet up with Jason Howden for a quick lunch at Mojo Waterfront, and then met back up with them afterwards to go and visit the Weta Cave. This is a nice tour over at the Weta Workshop that gives a behind-the-scenes look at the company and the amazing work they do. It also touches on the work done by Weta Digital (an important customer of Autodesk’s, of course), but the main focus is really on physical creation. Which admittedly involves more and more digital fabrication techniques (both subtractive and additive), so still super-interesting technologically speaking.

We weren’t allowed to take pictures during much of the tour – mainly because many of the exhibits belong to Weta’s customers – but here…

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