About Weta Work­shop, Ltd Founded in 1987 by Richard Tay­lor, Tania Rodger, Peter Jack­son and Jamie Selkirk, Weta is a phys­i­cal and dig­i­tal effects com­pany pro­vid­ing crea­tures, spe­cial make-up effects, pros­thet­ics, minia­tures, armor, weaponry and dig­i­tal effects for the film and tele­vi­sion indus­try. Over the past six­teen years the com­pany has pro­vided effects for Jackson’s Meet the Fee­bles, Brain­dead (aka Dead Alive), Heav­enly Crea­tures, The Fright­en­ers, and The Lord of the Rings movie tril­ogy, as well as for adver­tise­ments and tele­vi­sion shows includ­ing the pop­u­lar Her­cules and Xena series. At the height of pro­duc­tion on The Lord of the Rings, Weta Work­shop employed 150 phys­i­cal effects tech­ni­cians and 350 dig­i­tal effects tech­ni­cians at Weta Dig­i­tal. Weta’s work on The Lord of the Rings has gar­nered world­wide praise includ­ing two Acad­emy Awards in 2002 (for Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup), and one in 2003 (for Best Visual Effects). The British Acad­emy has also hon­ored Weta’s work by award­ing two BAF­TAs in 2002 (for Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup) and two more in 2003 (for Best Visual Effects and Best Costume).

About Gainax Gainax was founded in 1984. It began as a corps of ama­teur film­mak­ers, cen­tered around cur­rent com­pany pres­i­dent Hiroyuki Yam­aga and animé direc­tor Hideaki Anno. Their first work, Wings of Hon­neamise, con­tin­ues to gar­ner praise world­wide. Gainax’s highly orig­i­nal style of film­mak­ing spans the gen­er­a­tions, appeal­ing to fans both young and old. 1995’s Neon Gen­e­sis Evan­ge­lion whipped up an animé fever of extra­or­di­nary pro­por­tions, receiv­ing atten­tion not only from animé fans, but also from many other cor­ners of soci­ety. Hideaki Anno, who directed Neon Gen­e­sis Evan­ge­lion, com­mands respect from even the likes of Spir­ited Away direc­tor Hayao Miyazaki.

About ADV Films: In 1992, ADV Films began to forge the inter­na­tional mar­ket for Japan­ese ani­ma­tion (“animé”) by com­bin­ing unique titles, out­stand­ing pro­duc­tion val­ues and effi­cient large-scale dis­tri­b­u­tion. Today, ADV Films is the #1 producer-distributor of Japan­ese ani­ma­tion to the North Amer­i­can mar­ket, with the firm’s hold­ings includ­ing such pre­mier titles as NOIR, Sailor Moon, Samu­rai X, Hello Kitty’s Par­adise, RahX­ephon, Sprig­gan, Robot­ech, Full Metal Panic and Neon Gen­e­sis Evan­ge­lion. In addi­tion, ADV Films’ prod­uct line has expanded to include other forms of genre pro­gram­ming, includ­ing live-action sci­ence fic­tion pro­grams Gene Roddenberry’s Androm­eda, Mutant X and The Jim Hen­son Company’s Farscape, and clas­sic sci­ence fic­tion such as the updated Gam­era tril­ogy. ADV Films’ par­ent com­pany, A.D. Vision, Inc., also pub­lishes New­type USA, the pre­mier animé and manga monthly in the English-speaking world, and oper­ates The Animé Net­work™, broad­cast­ing animé and animé-related pro­gram­ming via dig­i­tal cable, 24 hours a day. Head­quar­tered in Hous­ton, Texas, USA, with addi­tional offices in the EU and Japan, and dis­tri­b­u­tion on four con­ti­nents, ADV is fast becom­ing an inter­na­tional enter­tain­ment pow­er­house. For more infor­ma­tion, visit ADV Films on the web at http://​www​.adv​films​.com.

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