During the past eleven years, Visual Effects Supervisor Roger Guyett has helped to bring to life everything from friendly ghosts to mythical hippogriffs during his success as a creative leader at Industrial Light & Magic. With Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, Guyett and his team will take fans on an epic journey to witness Wookiee battles, Jedi duels over treacherous environments and the construction of one the most infamous characters in cinematic history -- Darth Vader.

However, long before he joined forces with ILM, Guyett -- who was born and raised in Farnborough, England -- worked for a production company in London where he ended up doing a little of everything from filming models to using motion control. As the head of the animation group, his attention began to move away from commercials and television to a bigger screen.

"The movies Terminator 2, Jurassic Park and The Abyss opened up that world of visual effects to me and I realized that I wanted to move onto film production," Guyett recalls. "I left England, and then came to the States around 1992."

Guyett initially joined the Shrek special effects house Pacific Data Images (PDI) and later arrived at ILM in 1994 where he worked on the groundbreaking computer animation featured in Casper. He was a principal member of the team that produced over forty minutes of 3D character animation, marking the first time in cinematic history that a leading role was played by an entirely synthetic actor.

"No one had done that kind of scale before," Guyett remembers. "To do 500 shots at that time was almost unthinkable."

In 1995, Guyett led the technical direction of key sequences in Dragonheart, where ILM's proprietary facial animation software brought the 3D digital character of Draco to life.

"The big thing that got going with that film was the idea to have an animated character talking with such a strong sense of emotion," Guyett explains. "The character of Draco could really convey the complexity of the performance."

As the computer graphics supervisor on Twister, he oversaw a team of digital artists that created stunning images of one of nature's fiercest weather events. In 1998, Guyett was recognized with a British Academy Award (BAFTA) for his innovative work as co-visual effects supervisor on Saving Private Ryan.

Guyett then went on to work on some of the most special effect-laden films of his career with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -- the latter which landed him a Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects.