It's specialists have brought movies like Lord of the Rings, Avatar and Tin Tin to life. And The Hobbit is currently in production locally (Stephen Fry is a regular visitor at the moment).
This weekend they had one of their sculptors publicly creating a one-off piece that he'd dreamed up in the middle of the Weta Cave museum. In keeping with some of the semi-mythological creatures created in the Weta workshops, when we visited, the sculptor was part way through building a robot fighting a centaur.
He was working from a "sketch" - a miniature version of the final work. Comparing the two models, it was apparent that he'd taken some artistic licence to change the statue as he went.
The robot's right arm had been changed from a strangulation hold to a more animated, extended position.
The artist explained a very technical reason for this change, relating to how your eye is drawn by the shape of the sculpture, and his desire to create a spiral flow around the two figures.
But, in closing he added: "I also had to find some way of getting the teddy bear in there..."
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