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Jason Docherty is doing makeup for a college student who is attending a dinner hosted by the Study in Wellington delegation in Beijing.

Two hours later, the director of the prosthetics and special makeup team at Weta Workshop has turned the student into a hobbit.

Weta Workshop is a design studio and manufacturing facility serving the world's entertainment and creative industries based in New Zealand. And it is best known for producing the sets, costumes, armor, weapons, creatures and miniatures for director Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, a job which earned it four Academy Awards.