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Tim Ferriss · 2025-03-13

Wētā Workshop — Stories from The Lord of the Rings, Four Tenets to Live By, and Untapping Creativity

Wētā Workshop — Stories from The Lord of the Rings, Four Tenets to Live By, and Untapping Creativity

Recommended on this episode

MediaRecommended

2000 AD

“oh fantastic unreal the best right”
“I grew up reading 2000 AD judge Dredd British series of oh fantastic unreal the best right”— Greg Broadmore
BookRecommended

Slaine the Horned God

Simon Bisley (inferred)

“his work just freaking blew the lid off my mind oh my God it's so nuts it's still unparalleled”
“might have been how I was introduced to Simon Bisley for the first time slaying the horn God right oh my God look at that this is the book right there”— Greg Broadmore
BookRecommended

ABC Warriors

Simon Bisley (inferred)

“his work just freaking blew the lid off my mind oh my God it's so nuts it's still unparalleled”
“the book before this came out was ABC Warriors which he did in black and white it's all penmanship but his work just freaking blew the lid off my mind”— Greg Broadmore
MediaRecommended

Heavy Metal (magazine)

“what a great magazine that was too”
“the art of Simon Bisley heavy metal man what a great magazine that was too yeah I think they just re-released it by the way”— Tim Ferriss
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Simon Bisley Bible (Old and New Testament illustrations)

Simon Bisley (inferred)

“dude go and buy it now ... they're absolutely incredible really beautiful”
“he did works from the Bible from both Bibles Old and New Testament dude go and buy it now there's two volumes of it and they're absolutely incredible”— Greg Broadmore
BookRecommendedISBN verified

Calvin and Hobbes

Bill Watterson (inferred)

“absolutely mind-boggling illustrations ... you would really see that was a true Master”
“I just want to throw another name out there Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes oh 100% when you say Rockwell my mind jumps to Bill Watterson”— Tim Ferriss

The guest's own work

MediaBy the guest

Lord of the Rings

Wētā Workshop (inferred)

“once again jump forward 10 15 years we've now made Lord of the Rings we're very fortunate to win our first Oscars”— Richard Taylor
MediaBy the guest

King Kong

Wētā Workshop (inferred)

“Richard bought it as a prop for Kong the idea was it's a pit scene in Kong and then we were supposed to put a bunch of bones in there”— Greg Broadmore
MediaBy the guest

Heavenly Creatures

Wētā Workshop (inferred)

“I ultimately as I said did over 300 sculptures all of Heavenly Creatures were sculpted in margarine”— Richard Taylor
MediaBy the guest

Meet the Feebles

Wētā Workshop (inferred)

“my wife and I bought way back on Meet the Feebles right the decision to”— Richard Taylor
MediaBy the guest

Hercules and Xena

Wētā Workshop (inferred)

“we'd done Hercules and Xena at the time and we'd had a career of about 8 to 10 years doing Peter's films”— Richard Taylor
BookBy the guest

One Path

Greg Broadmore (inferred)

“One path comes out April the 8th that's like a month from now that very soon I don't know when you're releasing this but yeah hopefully very soon”— Greg Broadmore
MediaBy the guest

District 9

Greg Broadmore (inferred)

“The one that resonates for me is District 9 I got to work on District 9 which was Neill Blomkamp's debut film”— Greg Broadmore
BookBy the guestISBN verified

Dr. Grordbort's (ray gun bestiary books)

Greg Broadmore (inferred)

“it's the bestiary that you created with the scaling for human size do you know what I'm talking about oh yeah yeah for the Dr Grordbort's World”— Tim Ferriss

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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The Garden of Earthly Delights (triptych)

Hieronymus Bosch (inferred)

“I was able to buy two things one of them being the triptych of the Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch this is in my early teens”— Richard Taylor
MediaReferenced

Gremlins 2

“next to me is the gremlin from Gremlins 2 I painted it up but Steve Wang was the original painter of that”— Richard Taylor
MediaReferenced

Harry and the Hendersons

“let's actually double click on the inspiration we could talk about I guess it's Harry and the Hendersons I believe you have something like that also in your office”— Tim Ferriss
ProductReferenced

Procreate

Savage Interactive (inferred)

“I was inspired after my trip actually to attempt to learn digital painting oh really again using procreate and I was curious about some of your practice habits”— Tim Ferriss
ProductReferenced

Nintendo DS

Nintendo (inferred)

“it was a Nintendo DS it was a little flip open but the cool thing that Nintendo added was a touchscreen oh actually it had a stylus”— Greg Broadmore
MediaReferenced

American Beauty

“there was that great American movie that came out with the dancing plastic bag that was caught in the wind oh is that American Beauty”— Greg Broadmore
MediaReferenced

Star Wars

“I'm a child of Star Wars but before Star Wars I remember really fondly the black and white serials of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers”— Greg Broadmore
MediaReferenced

Flash Gordon

“I remember really fondly the black and white serials of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers and those things and so those things seed into my mind”— Greg Broadmore
MediaReferenced

Buck Rogers

“the black and white serials of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers and those things and so those things seed into my like four five six year old mind”— Greg Broadmore
ProductReferenced

Magic Leap (AR goggles)

Magic Leap (inferred)

“this guy Rooney Eitz came along into our lives who started Magic Leap a company that make 3D goggles AR goggles they call them spatial Computing”— Greg Broadmore
MediaReferenced

Halo

“it started as Halo and actually we started working on Halo sort of a feature film adaptation of the video game amazing video game”— Greg Broadmore
BookReferencedISBN verified

Worlds & Realms

Adam Lee (inferred)

“so one of them was Adam Lee and you can see here this is Worlds and Realms classic Dungeons and Dragons it runs through basically 50 years of gameplay”— Tim Ferriss
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Art of Simon Bisley

Simon Bisley (inferred)

“I have that book this is Simon Bisley yeah the art of Simon Bisley heavy metal man”— Tim Ferriss
MediaReferenced

Metal Hurlant (magazine)

“I think they just re-released it by the way the French version Metal Hurlant or however you say that oh amazing”— Tim Ferriss
MediaReferenced

Lobo

Simon Bisley (inferred)

“and then his work on Lobo I remember that very distinctly as well just an incredible incredible artist”— Tim Ferriss
MediaReferenced

Sin City

Robert Rodriguez (inferred)

“owned by Robert Rodriguez who's a famous film director he did you know Sin City worked with James Cameron on Alita Battle Angel”— Tim Ferriss
MediaReferenced

Alita: Battle Angel

Robert Rodriguez (inferred)

“he did you know Sin City worked with James Cameron on Alita Battle Angel he's done tons and tons of movies”— Tim Ferriss
BookReferenced

Fiend Folio

TSR (inferred)

“I had this book as a kid Dungeons and Dragons and the Fiend Folio those kind of things I loved all that with all the stats”— Greg Broadmore