Scott Squires
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Scott Squires is a Visual Effects Supervisor and Director. His first film project was Close Encounters where he developed the Cloud Tank Effect. In 1979 Squires, Hoy Yeatman, Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister co-founded Dream Quest Images, a groundbreaking 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. Scott Squires worked a Visual Effects Supervisor and Commercial Director at ILM for 20 years and is now a freelance director and visual effects supervisor.
While at ILM Scott Squires received an Academy Technical Award for Input Scanning and received Academy Award nominations for