{"id":58616,"date":"2012-07-10T20:08:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T01:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=58616"},"modified":"2012-07-10T20:08:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T01:08:46","slug":"design-a-career-around-your-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/10\/58616-design-a-career-around-your-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Design a career around your imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Weta<\/a><\/span>In this article, The New Zealand Herald’s Helen Frances speaks to Weta<\/span> concept designers and illustrators Ben Wootten<\/span> and Paul Tobin<\/span> about how they got their starts in the industry.<\/p>\n

Wootten<\/span>\u00a0joined Weta<\/span> in 1996, and has worked on King Kong<\/em>, The Lord of the Rings<\/em> and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/em>.\u00a0His knowledge of animal anatomy and behavior (he studied zoology at university) was key to creating the dinosaurs for King Kong<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Paul Tobin<\/span> began his career at Weta Workshop<\/span> in 2003 when the first Narnia film and King Kong<\/em> were underway. Tobin says he was “lousy at drawing dinosaurs” so he stayed with Narnian fantasy. His background in ancient history and archaeology proved the inspiration for concept designs for Peter and Edmund’s armour and weapons and Susan’s horn.<\/p>\n

Read more here<\/a>. Photo by Steve Unwin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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