Greg Broadmore

Greg Broadmore is a concept designer, artist, writer and sculptor based in Wellington, New Zealand. He is the creator of Dr Grordbort’s, and has worked as a designer, artist and writer at The Lord of the Rings film franchise director Peter Jackson’s award-winning special effects and prop company, Weta Workshop since 2002. He was the lead concept designer on District 9 and a concept designer and sculptor on King Kong, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and The Adventures of Tintin. Broadmore was also one of the illustrators and concept writers for Weta Workshop’s first publication, “The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island.

Broadmore was born in Whakatane in 1972 and grew up obsessed with comic books, video games and Star Wars. He was rejected by two New Zealand art schools and spent the next seven years living on social welfare while he played in punk rock bands.

Broadmore moved to Wellington in 2000, where he worked as a children’s book illustrator, illustrating over 30 books. After the first Lord of the Rings film was released in 2001, Broadmore sent his portfolio to Weta Workshop creator and head Sir Richard Taylor, who hired him based on the strength of his work. He began working for Weta Workshop as a designer and sculptor in 2002.

Broadmore is best known for his work on the universe of Dr Grordbort’s, which he created in-between working on King Kong and District 9. Broadmore designed a series of retro-futuristic ray guns, which he showed to Weta Workshop special effects supervisor Sir Richard Taylor, who saw their potential as a line of collectibles based within their own universe.

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