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Jack-of-all-trades in Richard Taylor's Weta Workshop in New Zealand: he's worked in visual effects, the art department, special effects, the sound department, on-camera, and in other artistic and supervisory positions, beginning as a storyboard artist and creature and gore effects echnician for BRAINDEAD in 1992. Other notable film credits include HEAVENLY CREATURES (storyboard artist) and "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" (TV, special effects tech.) (both 1994), CONTACT (1997, digital artist), THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy (2001-03, visual effects conceptual designer & ass't art director), THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE (special effects designer) and KING KONG (animation director, previsual animation designer & supervisor) (both 2005), THE WATER HORSE: LEGEND OF THE DEEP (2007, visual effects creative director), and THE LAUNDRY WARRIOR (2008, pre-visualization visual effects supervisor).  Best Achievement in Visual Effects 2005: KING KONG (w. Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul & Richard Taylor) 1 nomination, 1 Award

As a soldier in LOTR