IAAPA Attractions Expo 2018

RIK ATHORNE
Senior Creative Business Director
WETA Workshop


Rik Athorne – Senior Creative Business Director As Senior Creative Business Director and part of the Weta Workshop senior management team, previously Head of Design for over 10 years, Rik now leads Weta Workshop’s Location Based Entertainment division and helps drive the company’s strategic initiatives; attending to key client, creative and business needs. Weta Workshop Weta Workshop is a five-time Academy Award®-winning concept design studio and physical effects manufacturing facility that services the world’s entertainment and creative industries. For over 20 years the Workshop has applied its creativity and craftsmanship to blockbuster films and hit television series including The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit motion picture trilogies, King Kong, Avatar, The Chronicles of Narnia, District 9, Elysium, Chappie, Thunderbirds Are Go and Ghost in the Shell. This diverse, innovation-driven company is also an international tourist destination, producer of consumer products, interactive studio in collaboration with Florida-based technology company Magic Leap, behind-the-scenes and media production facility, and creator of public sculptures and immersive exhibition experiences like the THEA award winning Gallipoli: The scale of our war, at New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa.

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