My main task initially was to help get the process of building miniatures started by doing drawings of some of the environments, cities, towns and castles that would feature in the films.
Working as a conceptual designer on The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films was intensively collaborative: meetings with the director Peter Jackson every day working alongside fellow designers, sculptors, props-makers, painters, and the visual effects teams. Peter Jackson asked me to start at Helm's Deep on my first day at work in New Zealand
