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‘LOTR’ VFX Firm Wētā Workshop, Author Neal Stephenson to Launch ‘Participatory Worldbuilding’ Digital Experience (EXCLUSIVE)


Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 and "Lord of the Rings" film franchise VFX studio Wētā Workshop will team on a "participatory worldbuilding" experience

Prolific author Neal Stephenson’s digital content platform Lamina1 and “The Lord of the Rings” film franchise VFX company Wētā Workshop are set to collaborate on a “participatory worldbuilding” experience titled “Artefact.” “Artefact” will serve as the flagship project in the Lamina1-Wētā partnership and first major multimedia property launching on Lamina1’s blockchain infrastructure and tooling. Lamina1 CEO and co-founder Rebecca Barkin added: “We built the Lamina1 platform to realize the kind of creator-owned infrastructure that we’d like to build on ourselves, and our collaboration with Wētā & Neal provides first-class pressure testing of our feature set and capability.

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