Sunday, July 30, 2006

My first published photo

Back in May, Daniel Falconer of Weta Limited emailed to ask if the company could license one of my photos for an advertisement for their new fan website. Weta Limited is a creative company based in New Zealand consisting of six brands: Weta Workshop, Weta Digital, Weta Tenzan Chainmaille, Weta Collectibles, Weta Publishing, and Weta Productions.

Here's a description of Weta Workshop, which you may have heard of:

Weta Workshop is a four time Academy Award winning company that offers services to all aspects of the creative industry including design, special make-up effects and prosthetics, creatures, armour, weapons, miniatures, prop building, large scale sculpture, display work and costuming.
(Check out their Projects list. This one is pretty interesting.)

You may have seen Weta Collectibles' awesome stuff. They produced exclusive figures for the Lord of the Rings movie marathon, which Sean and I used to have before the fire. They also made the Elven Helm that Magazine Man sent me.

Weta launched its publishing arm, Weta Publishing, in 2005. My photo was used in a print advertisement in a booklet put out by Weta Publishing that was distributed at San Diego Comic Con.

Here's the original photo:


Here's the proof of the ad Daniel sent me:


And here's the ad in all its glory in the booklet:




A different version of the ad will also be used in a forthcoming publication.

6 comments:

Jered said...

How cool ^_^

Merujo said...

How incredibly cool is that?!?! WETA is a pretty amazing organization. What an awesome feather in your cap. :-)

Heather Meadows said...

I know! I'm so excited! It was really hard not to post anything about it when it first happened, but I had to wait until the ad came out :>

I really love what they did with the photo. The ad looks awesome.

Anonymous said...

Pretty damn neat, if you ask me. I think they went a little stupid with the evil eyes, though.

And I don't like this word verification crap I have to do to post. ;P

Anonymous said...

Cool! Good for you :)

Dawn

Anonymous said...

Heather, that's great!