Raised in rural Australia, Ben Snow studied computing and film at the University of Canberra.  He did a variety of work and traveled extensively before working as a runner for a computer graphics house in London.  Snow later returned to Australia to set up the computer animation department for a company in Sydney where he worked on commercials, broadcast indents and openers, including a computer graphics title sequence for Beyond 2000.

Snow left Australia to join Industrial Light & Magic in 1994, where his first project was to help create the three-dimensional computer graphics image of the “Enterprise B” for Star Trek: Generations. This version had to intercut seamlessly with the motion control model shot on ILM’s soundstage, one of the first such endeavors for a feature film. In addition to his feature credits, Snow was instrumental in the research and development required for the groundbreaking images seen in Twister,Deep Impact and Pearl Harbor.

After spending several years in New Zealand with Weta Digital as Visual Effects Supervisor on King Kong, Snow returned to ILM in 2008 to begin work on the Marvel franchise, Iron Man. Since then, Snow has been honored with a number of Academy Award, Visual Effects Society and BAFTA nominations for achievements in visual effects including: Terminator SalvationIron Man 2, and his more recent work, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. In early 2013, Snow began working closely with Darren Aronofsky on his latest film, Noah, an adaptation based on the epic story from the Bible. Ben supervised the work on the film, namely looking for inspiration from some of the same films he had worked on in his early career. Slated for release next summer, Snow recently supervised work on Avengers: Age of Ultron, the blockbuster sequel to Marvel’s The Avengers.

ILM CREDITS

Feature Films

2015    AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON – Visual Effects Supervisor

2014    NOAH – Visual Effects Supervisor

2011    PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES – Visual Effects Supervisor

            Visual Effects Society Award Nomination – Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture

2010    IRON MAN 2 – Visual Effects Supervisor

            Academy Award Nomination — Best Visual Effects

            Visual Effects Society Award Nomination – Outstanding Visual Effects

2009    TERMINATOR SALVATION – Visual Effects Supervisor

             Visual Effects Society Award Nomination – Best Single Visual Effects of the Year

2008    IRON MAN – Visual Effects Supervisor

              Academy Award Nomination — Best Visual Effects

             British Academy of Film and Television Award Nomination – Best      Visual             Effects

             Hollywood Film Festival Award — Best Visual Effects

             Visual Effects Society Award Nomination – Outstanding Visual Effects

             Visual Effects Society Award Nomination – Best Single Visual Effects of the Year

2005    KING KONG – Visual Effects Supervisor Weta Digital

2003    VAN HELSING – Visual Effects Supervisor

2002    STAR WARS: EPISODE II “Attack of the Clones” – Visual Effects Supervisor

            Academy Award Nomination – Best Visual Effects

2001    PEARL HARBOR – Associate Visual Effect Supervisor

            Academy Award Nomination – Best Visual Effects

1999    GALAXY QUEST – Associate Visual Effects Supervisor

1999    THE MUMMY – Computer Graphic Supervisor

1998    DEEP IMPACT – Computer Graphics Supervisor / Head of Research & Dev. Team

1997    THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK – Comp. Graphics Sequence Supervisor

1996    DRAGONHEART – Technical Director

1996    TWISTER – Technical Director / Research & Development Team

1996    MARS ATTACKS! – Computer Graphics Sequence Supervisor

1995    CASPER – Technical Director

1994    STAR TREK: GENERATIONS – Technical Director