STEVE GAWLEY Model Supervisor - KERNER OPTICAL

Owner:  STEVE GAWLEY - Industrial Light + Magic / Medium: Colored Pencil and Marker Pen on heavy, acid free paper / Year: 2004 / © Copyright: Mark Raats

Steve Gawley has enjoyed making models since his early youth. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Design from California State University at

 Long Beach and started his professional modelmaking career with Industrial Light & Magic  in 1975 as one of the first 15 original visual effects crew members

to work with George Lucas on the production of Star Wars. Since that time, he has supervised and participated in the budgeting and construction and construction

of the high quality work in many of ILM's projects. He has built models for 10 of ILM's 14 Academy Award winning film projects and received a 1989 Academy Award

nomination for Best Achievement in Visual Effects on the feature film Back To The Future, Part II. He was honored with the British Academy Award that year for

the same film. Gawley is currently a member of the visual effects branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 1987, ILM produced the visual

effects for the innovative amusement park simulator ride Star Tours for the Walt Disney Company. Star Tours is located in four sites around the globe and Gawley

appears as "Red Leader" in the ride, which is seen every minute of the day somewhere in the world.

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