Richard Taylor, 2003

Richard Taylor is the creator and head of New Zealand movie prop and special effects company Weta Workshop. Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (400x678, 99 KB) photographer: Stefan Servos Beschreibung: Richard Taylor, WETA-Chef Fotograf: Stefan Servos Datum: 15. ... Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (400x678, 99 KB) photographer: Stefan Servos Beschreibung: Richard Taylor, WETA-Chef Fotograf: Stefan Servos Datum: 15. ... Jump to: navigation, search Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used in the film, television, and entertainment industry to create effects that cannot be achieved by normal means, such as depicting travel to other star systems. ... Jump to: navigation, search Weta Workshop is a physical effects company based in Miramar, New Zealand, producing effects for television and film. ...

A close friend of Peter Jackson, he and his company created all of the props, costumes, prosthetics, miniatures and weaponry for Jackson's epic The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. For his work on the three films, he has shared in winning three Academy Awards. Jump to: navigation, search Peter Jackson in Wellington (New Zealand), at the premiere of Return of the King, December 2003. ... The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy consists of three live action films, directed by Peter Jackson. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...

Taylor can be seen and heard on all of the Lord of the Rings DVDs, in behind-the-scenes documentaries and on the audio commentaries on the extended edition DVDs. He even seems to have directed some of the trilogy's fight scenes. Jump to: navigation, search DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...

He had a cameo appearance with Peter Jackson and other crew members in The Return of the King: Special Extended Edition as a Corsair pirate. Jump to: navigation, search Martin Scorsese appears briefly in an uncredited role in this scene from Taxi Driver, the first scene in which Cybill Shepherd appears. ... Corsair can refer to: a pirate who used to operate in the Mediterranean Sea, see Corsair (pirate) a French airline, see: Corsair (airline) several aircraft of the US Navy: the O2U Corsair the F4U Corsair the A-7 Corsair II a kind of fireworks a poem, The Corsair, by Lord...

External links

• Richard Taylor at the Internet Movie Database
• Richard's profile page at Weta Workshop