Scott Squires (born November 7, 1956) is an American visual effects supervisor and director.
His first film project was ''
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' is a 1977 American science fiction film, science fiction drama film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François ...
'', where he developed the Cloud Tank Effect.
In 1979 Squires,
Hoyt Yeatman, Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister co-founded
Dream Quest Images, a visual effects house, which was later purchased by Disney. Squires was president of Dream Quest and left in 1985 to work for
Industrial Light and Magic
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is an American Film, motion picture visual effects, computer animation and stereo conversion digital studio founded by George Lucas on May 26, 1975. It is a division of the film production company Lucasfilm, which Lu ...
. Squires worked as visual effects supervisor and commercial director at ILM for 20 years and is now a freelance director and visual effects supervisor.
While at ILM, Squires received an Academy Technical Award for Input Scanning and received Academy Award nominations for
''The Mask'', ''
Dragonheart
''Dragonheart'' (stylized as ''DragonHeart'') is a 1996 fantasy adventure film directed by Rob Cohen and written by Charles Edward Pogue, based on a story created by him and Patrick Read Johnson. The film stars Dennis Quaid, David Thewlis, ...
'', and ''
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace''.
External links
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Scott Squires Home PageScott Squires Visual Effects Blog - Effects Corner
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Living people
Visual effects supervisors
1956 births