Sometimes, magic isn’t just something you find at the end of a rainbow, it’s something you create with your bare hands and raw imagination. That’s what the team at Wētā Workshop does every damn day. These are the architects of the extraordinary, the visionaries behind innovative concept designs, standout costumes, and mind-blowing props. All the brainchildren of award-winning costume designer Deborah Scott, production designers Dylan Cole and Ben Procter, and the Wētā Workshop, who bring dreams to life.
This group of dreamers and artists have been instrumental in the making of the much-loved film, Avatar. They’ve poured their heart and soul into Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films, a streaming jewel that takes you behind the curtains of this epic creation. It’s a rare look into the method behind the magic, the sweat behind the spectacle, the humans behind the avatars.
Essential names to note are Stephen Crowe, the Art Director, Flo Foxworthy, the Na’vi Costume Art Director and Supervisor, and project leads Lans Hansen, Mona Peters, and Joe Dunckley. Without their work, intricate Avatar costumes and sets would remain as idle doodles on a sketch pad.
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