Ryan Wieber

Ryan Wieber (born May 24, 1984) is a visual effects compositor and former amateur filmmaker, best known for creating short Star Wars-related fan films featuring lightsaber duels, Ryan vs. Dorkman and its sequels, which he co-created with Michael Scott.

Ryan Wieber was born May 24, 1984. He started playing with his grandmothers Panasonic VHS video camera at age 7. At age 12, he won a national filmmaking award for a sequel to Jurassic Park that he filmed called Paleolithic Park. He was eventually contacted by HBO to create short films for the HBO Family. At age 15, the Children's Discovery Museum asked him to make a short feature to be shown at the presentation of the Legacy for Children Award to Mr. Rogers. The four-minute film, which encourages parents to spend more time with their children, brought Rogers to tears.

Wieber graduated from Del Mar High School in San Jose, California. By 2003 he was attending a few classes at De Anza College and working part-time at Blockbuster Video.

Wieber became enamored of the Star Wars franchise when he saw the visual effects in the film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, which he characterizes as "spectacular". He began mimicking the Star Wars visual effects using his Canon GL-1 camcorder and a PC that he built using two AMD microprocessors, each of which ran at 1.67 GHz in clock speed. His portfolio grew to include a number of different lightsaber battles, including a short clip of showing Wieber fighting himself. He also managed has his friends star in videos in which they would shoot "force lightning" from their hands.

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