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“Like most kids … between 9 to 12, I was really into movies. I loved comic books and horror movies. Special effects are really what piqued my interest in the beginning. There was a special on the making of ‘Star Wars’ and ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’ and it was the first time I got to see the process,” said Ryan in an interview with Union County LocalSource on Friday, Jan. 13.

“They did stop-motion with the Tauntauns and they motion capture on blue screen. My interest at first was in becoming a special effects artist. I was drawing comic books at the time. At that age, we didn’t have any access to real cameras and we had to use VHS and we started making backyard movies. I started leaning into directing because I was always telling my friends what happens next, and I started writing a script.”