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Weta Workshop is a five-time Academy Award®-winning concept design studio and physical effects manufacturing facility that services the world’s entertainment and creative industries.

For over 20 years the Workshop has applied its creativity and craftsmanship to blockbuster films and hit television series including The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit motion picture trilogies, King Kong, Avatar, The Chronicles of Narnia, District 9, Elysium, Chappie, Thunderbirds Are Go, The Great Wall and Ghost in the Shell.

This diverse, innovation-driven company is also an international tourist destination, producer of consumer products, interactive studio in collaboration with Florida-based technology company Magic Leap, behind-the-scenes and media production facility, and creator of public sculptures and immersive exhibition experiences like the record-breaking Gallipoli: The scale of our war, at New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa.

From humble beginnings in the back room of their flat, co-founders Richard Taylor and Tania Rodger have built Weta Workshop into what it is today. Drawing on 27 years of experience, Richard, now CEO, is involved in all projects, from concept through to delivery.