Weta workshop

People can be afraid of many things, from darkness to spiders, to you name it. Some of these fears are totally irrational, others come from our childhoods and creep in well into our adult lives. One of such bizarre fears is megalophobia.

I'm the girl that couldn't even watch Jurassic Park, let alone Lord of the Rings. This tour is not for the faint hearted, but it is very cool

Director Sir Peter Jackson requested a round of wild and varied war beasts concepts for The Battle of the Five Armies, including new varieties of Troll and wholly original creatures that might move or fight in interesting ways. The brief spurring Weta Workshop concept designers to look for new types of creatures that might offer something fresh to the battlefield melee. © 2012 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. Images courtesy of Weta Workshop

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Creature design for Jumanji was everything you would expect....fun! It was an awesome project to be involved in and director Jake Kasdan and VFX supervisor Mark Breakspear were great to work with. Designing hyped up versions of familiar animals to help populate the crazy world of the Jumanji Game. We started with a broader range of options, looking at some that were more caricatures of the real world thing and some that were almost a new animal but looking related to the original. The Hyenas…

Paintings and drawings inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium.

The Weta Cave museum - Wellington, New Zealand

Add Weta Workshop to your Lord of the Rings (and Avatar) tour of New Zealand and combine it with visiting Hobbiton and other movie locations.