Ben Procter (production designer)
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Ben Procter | |
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| Education | University of California, Los Angeles |
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| Years active | 2000–present |
| Known for | Avatar film series |
Ben Procter is an American art director and production designer. He is best known for his work on the Avatar film series, serving as a concept art director on the first film (2009) and as the co-production designer for Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025).[1] For The Way of Water, he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Production Design at the 95th Academy Awards.[2]
Procter attended the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he graduated with a degree in fine arts.[3] He struggled to find work as a concept artist immediately following graduation, but his portfolio of traditional paintings eventually landed him an internship in the matte painting department at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM).[3][4]
Career
Procter worked in the video game industry for several years before transitioning into film.[5] He moved to Hollywood in 2001 and established himself as a lead robot illustrator for Transformers (2007) and an art director on its sequels, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011).[1]
In 2010, Procter served as an art director for Tron: Legacy.[1] He secured his first credit as a lead production designer on the film Ender's Game (2013), where he was responsible for visualizing the film's interface technology and environments.[6]
Procter's long-standing collaboration with director James Cameron began with the first Avatar film, where he worked as a concept art director focusing on the mechanical elements of the human technology.[1] He returned to the franchise as a co-production designer alongside Dylan Cole for Avatar: The Way of Water, and Avatar: Fire and Ash, tasked with designing the human "hard surface" assets (such as human bases, space craft and vehicles) in contrast to Cole's focus on the organic world of Pandora.[7]
