From: Linuxelf
Lotr fans have a chance to meet Daniel Falconer a design artist for lotr film trilogy and many other series including Xena and Hercules right here in the sunny Hawkes Bay! read on..
Attached is a newspaper article which appeared in Central Hawkes Bay Mail..also here is some more information from a pamphlet in regards to when are where Daniel Falconer will be.
Hawke’s Bay Bookfest Friday 11 to Sunday 13 October 2002
Friday 11th October:
Meet Daniel Falconer, Design Artist for Lord of the Rings and find out about the creative development of the “Fellowship of the Ring” at Hastings Central Library.
Be in the lucky seat to WIN a Lord of the Rings book.
7:00pm Gold Coin Donation.
A Trained illustrator, Daniel Falconer is a Conceptual
designer at Weta Workshop, one of a team of five full time design specialists based in the facility. Daniel has been with Weta now for six years. Over that time he has been involved in design work for a variety of different projects including creatures for television shows like William Tell, Hercules, Xena and Young Hercules, and most notably, designing creatures, armour, weaponry, props and costumes for Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. A long time of J.R.R Tolkien’s writing, the opportunity to be so intimately involved in bringing Middle-earth to the screen was a fulfillment of a childhood dream for Daniel and continues to be his ‘dream job’.
Saturday 12th October:
Meet Daniel Falconer, Design artist for Lord of the Rings and find out about “The Habits of Hobbits” at Napier Library. Enter the competition for the Best Dressed Hobbit and be in to WIN a Lord of the Rings book.
10:00am – 11:30am : Gold Coin Donation.
A final Chance to meet Daniel Falconer, Design artist for Lord of the Rings and find out about “The Habits of Hobbits” at Waipawa Library. Enter the competition for the Best Dressed Hobbit and be in to WIN a Lord of the Rings book.
1:00pm – 2:30pm : Gold coin Donation.
