Scott Squires (born 1956) is a 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 written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. It tells the story ...

'', where he developed the Cloud Tank Effect. In 1979 Squires,

Hoyt Yeatman Hoyt Yeatman (born January 23, 1955, in San Francisco, California, United States) is an American visual effects artist and supervisor. He has worked with Jerry Bruckheimer on a number of films, including ''Armageddon (1998 film), Armageddon'', ''C ...

, Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister co-founded

Dream Quest Images Dream Quest Images, later known as The Secret Lab, was an American visual effects company, co-founded in 1979 by Hoyt Yeatman, Scott Squires, Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister. History After early piecemeal work on ''Es ...

, 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 motion picture visual effects company that was founded on May 26, 1975 by George Lucas. It is a division of the film production company Lucasfilm, which Lucas founded, and was created when he began pro ...

. 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 Page

Scott Squires Visual Effects Blog - Effects Corner
{{DEFAULTSORT:Squires, Scott Living people Visual effects supervisors 1956 births