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Tracking ILM’s Iron Man vfx supervisor Ben Snow’s journey from movie fan to moviemaker. |
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Saturday, 24 May 2008 |
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It’s a long way from a goat farm near Burra Creek outside Queanbeyan outside Canberra in the Capital Territory of Australia, to San Francisco, California USA. But, it’s an even bigger stretch to imagine that Ben Snow, a young movie fan growing up in this remote location, could wind up as visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) for the blockbuster film Iron Man.
In grade 11, the aspiring moviemaker read an article in “American Cinematographer” by Dennis Muren about his work as the effects director of photography for “Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back.” “I decided, ‘OK, I want to be a miniatures DP,’” Snow said. “But, I couldn’t see how I could get from Canberra, Australia to ILM.”
He took the long road, traveling first to London, then back to Australia. But, he made it. Some twenty years after he had read the article about “Episode V,” Dennis Muren himself mentored Snow into his first credit as a visual effects supervisor.
The film? “Star Wars: Episode II – The Attack of the Clones,” for which Snow received his second Oscar nomination. Source and detail:  |
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