Hobbit Gollum from The Lord of the Rings films. (Photo provided to China Daily)
In recent years, Weta Workshop has been a popular destination for Chinese tourists to New Zealand, says Taylor. He has even hired two Chinese guides in his company to help Chinese visitors understand how they make visual effects, weapons and armor for films.
The other part of the show is a sci-fi world of Dr Grordbort created by writer and artist Greg Broadmore. It has houses to display the store of ray guns used by Grordbort for interplanetary adventures and wars. From figures, photos, drawings, sculptures and miniatures, visitors can see how the artist created a sci-fi world.
Dr Grordbort eventually will be marketed as a mixed-reality game made by Magic Leap, a US virtual reality technology company.
"It's the first time that the savage world of Dr Grordbort has been shown to the public in such a big scale," says Broadmore. He was chased by lots of Chinese to autograph souvenir figures they bought on the opening day, Dec 13.
