When the Adelaide animator Ben Walker got serious about a career in film, he didn't bother getting on a plane to Los Angeles. He just flew to Sydney.
The 25-year-old completed a one-year graduate diploma in digital media at the Australian Film Television and Radio School then leapt straight into work as a digital artist with the Oscar-winning animation studio Animal Logic.
In his first year on the job Walker worked on Baz Luhrmann's Australia and Alex Proyas's sci-fi movie Knowing , starring Nicolas Cage and Rose Byrne. He is now working as a matte painter on Guardians Of Ga'hoole , an animated feature about the owl world directed by Zack Snyder and featuring the voices of Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Taylor and David Wenham.
"This industry is so much about getting your foot in the door," Walker says.
What started as a cottage industry in Sydney has become a hub for animation around the world. The city has six major animation and visual effects studios, including Animal Logic ( Babe , The Matrix and Happy Feet ), Omnilab (Spike Jonze's upcoming Where The Wild Things Are ) and Rising Sun Pictures ( Wolverine ).
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