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How Indie Creature Feature ‘Sting’ Got ‘Lord of the Rings’ Visual Effects Legends to Make Scary, Disgusting Spiders

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William Earl Special effects legend Richard Taylor has five Oscars under his belt, but he just wants to make big, gross puppets.

Taylor is the founder of Wētā Workshop, which, among countless other titles, created the indelible effects for “The Lord of the Rings” film trilogy, MCU movies and “Mad Max: Fury Road.” He lights up when discussing “Sting,” a new low-budget giant spider movie.

He says that despite the company’s comfort in handling large-scale effects work, there is room for the team to flex their creative muscles on smaller projects. “There’s a misconception that we only work on large-budget mega-movies,” Taylor says. “We want to do lower-budget horror movies.

We’ve maintained a business infrastructure that allows us to do that. In the same year that we did ‘Sting,’ we did ‘The Tank,’ which was a low-budget New Zealand horror movie.

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