Visual Effects Supervisor

Scott Gordon is currently with CafeFX in Santa Maria, serving as their Visual Effects Supervisor for Flight of the Phoenix, due out in the Fall of 2004. Scott has worked with CafeFX for nearly two years, creating volumetric fluid effects for Hellboy (2004) and serving as CafeFX's Visual Effects Supervisor on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) where they created most of the effects involving the Invisible Man, Skinner. He also supervised the collapse of the Golden Gate Bridge in The Core (2003).

Prior to his work with CafeFX Scott worked as a freelance artist, creating effects for Hero (2002) and Scooby-Doo (2002), and serving as the Digital Effects Supervisor for John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001).

Before that, Scott worked for Disney as a Digital Effects Supervisor on The Kid (2000) and Soarin' over California (2001), a live-action ride film in 15-perf, 70MM that is part of Disney's California Adventure. At Disney's Dream Quest Images, Scott was also CG Supervisor for the feature film Mission to Mars (2000), where he was responsible for the "Vortex Attack" sequence. This portion of the film utilized proprietary software to create a terrifying, photorealistic dust-storm on Mars that included a tornado-like creature, flying rocks and sand integrated with atmospheric effects and live-action astronauts.

Prior to that Scott worked as CG Supervisor for Sony on the feature The Ninth Gate (1999) and as CG Supervisor for Mass Illusions on What Dreams May Come (1998), winner of the 1999 Academy Award for best visual effects. In the "painted world" section of the film completed at Mass Illusions, heaven is portrayed as a "living" oil painting. According to Scott, it was "an exciting opportinity to create imagery that would be viewed mainly for its artistic content."

Prior to that Scott worked at Santa Barbara Studios as the CG Supervisor and Head of Werewolf Development on An American Werewolf in Paris (1997). That project required the development of new technologies to tackle the problem of creating realistic, computer-generated creatures with hair. Scott was responsible for the design and implementation of the production pipeline, and co-authored Santa Barbara Studios' hair renderer, which was purchased by Alias|Wavefront and is now Maya Fur. While at Santa Barbara Studios, Scott also developed CG effects and techniques for the feature Spawn (1997), and animated several shots for the Academy Award nominated IMAX film A Cosmic Voyage (1996) including its centerpiece - a photorealistic, continuous, four-minute reverse zoom from the surface of the Earth to the farthest extents of the universe.

Scott relishes working in visual effects. His appreciation of art and traditional forms of animation have been a constant source of innovation and inspiration in a field that was often dominated by technical achievement in it early years. Scott holds a Master's degree from Stanford University, from which he graduated in 1982. After receiving his degree, he worked at Bell Laboratories developing products for the communications industry. In 1983 he co-founded East Side Film and Video, a New York based audio post-production facility. He served as their Director of Engineering, and brought new technologies to an industry that had not yet discovered computers or the digital age.

In 1985 Scott, along with others from East Side founded Post Perfect, a video post-production facility located in New York. As their Vice President and Director of Computer Animation, Scott created several award-winning animations. His projects included many show and special event openings for ABC, CBS, and NBC networks, as well as animation for Fine Line Films, Cinemax, David Letterman, Sony, Barbara Walters, and many others.

Scott left Post Perfect at the end of 1992 and worked as a freelance animator for several months before joining Editel New York as their Director of Animation. While at Editel, Scott worked on projects for Cinergi, Ogilvy and Mather, Grey Advertising, Foote Cone and Belding, DDB Needham, Jordan Case McGrath, MTV and Sony before moving to California in 1995 to pursue a career in feature film visual effects.