The Crafting Of Narnia won Kids Choice at The NZ Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults! Weta has a limited supply of books signed by Paul Tobin and Daniel Falconer!
Written and designed by the artists of Weta and published by HarperCollins, this book chronicles the stunning concept drawings, designs and props that helped shape the world of Narnia in cinematic glory.
WETA has been nominated for the 2009 Children’s and Young Adults Book Awards, for their book ‘The Crafting of Narnia.’
Congratulations WETA! You deserve it!
Before you can film a fantasy movie, you must create an authentic world. What kind of weather is found within, what would the buildings be made of, what creatures populate its land, and what is the history behind its people? For every stunning frame of film, there have been countless hours of work to create such majesty. And what a task to bring to the screen one of the world’s most beloved children’s series, C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia.
WETA NZ is now taking pre-orders for book copies signed by Weta Creative Director Richard Taylor of Crafting Of Narnia: The Art, Creatures And Weapons From Weta Workshop on the Weta website.
This book is already available from retailers in the US, but they wanted to let the fans get a chance to order a signed copy if they prefer.
Also, they will shortly be running a series of preview articles by Weta Designer Daniel Falconer from the book – first view of these articles will go to the fans on their Narnia mailing list with publication of each article on their Wetaholics site a day or two later. http://www.wetanz.com/holics/mailing_lists.php is the address for anyone who would like to get in early and subscribe to the list.
Please note – the signed copies of the book will only be available from their New Zealand warehouse, but individual copies can be shipped to any destination via normal post, just means international customers may have to wait a little longer than normal.
Please also note the price for the book on their website is in New Zealand dollars (NZD) and this is what customers’ credit cards will be charged. By today’s exchange rates, one NZD translates to roughly 79 US cents or 40 pence in the UK. But the final conversion rate will be calculated by the customer’s card issuer.
WETA has e-mailed us to invite you to a forum blitz. Daniel Falconer, a member of the Narnia design team will be appearing on WETA’s Forums next Monday, 18 December 2006, to answer your questions and reply to your comments.
This is how it will work: simply log onto www.wetanz-forums.com and if you haven’t already, sign up as a user (this is simple, quick and, best of all, free). Then simply click on the applicable subject and enter your own question. He will scan the entire forum throughout the day and attempt to answer as many posts as he can.
Daniel is one of a group of designers who worked on The Lord of the Rings and has a deep knowledge of Tolkien’s Middle-earth. Since The Lord of the Rings, Daniel has contributed design work for various projects including King Kong, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Halo. In 2005 he collated and wrote for Weta’s first book, The World of Kong, A Natural History of Skull Island, showcasing the illustrative work of the entire design department.
If you have a question for Daniel, post it in the applicable forum (eg LOTR enquiries in the LOTR forum) and he will do his best to reply over these two dates. So have you got questions burning a hole in your pocket yet? Well get to it – at www.wetanz-forums.com for the blitz date.
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