Remington Scott
- Visual Effects
- Writer
- Director
Remington Scott has been working in computer graphic imagery and emerging
media for more than 25 years.
His achievements in motion pictures are extensive, including supervisory digital production under filmmakers Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, Robert Zemeckis, Bryan Singer, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Zack Snyder and others.
For Jackson he supervised the Performance Capture team for The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers, which won an Academy Award for Achievement in Visual Effects for "using a computer motion capture system to create the split personality character of Gollum and Smeagol."
For Sakaguchi he became the first professional to direct performance capture for a completely computer-generated theatrically released film. That motion picture was Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, which was widely noted for its outstanding digitally created human characters from the earliest scenes to the conclusion and voted by Computer Graphic Society in the top 10 of the 100 Greatest 3D Movies.
He also worked on Visual Effects Academy Award winner Spider-Man 2 for Raimi and Superman Returns for Singer, and was instrumental in the advanced digital humans of both successful films, as well as Beowulf, Watchmen and Ani-Matrix: Final Flight of The Osiris. The Visual Effects Society nominated his work in the category of Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Picture for Spider-Man 3.
Remington, a graduate of New York's School of Visual Arts, co-created the first digitized home video game in the mid 1980s, a full decade before the technology became mainstream in the consumer marketplace. The design of the most realistic human forms in computer games today can be traced to his efforts. Similarly, in the early 1990s he pioneered three-dimensional performance capture technology for the digitization of human characters in games and movies.
Some of the companies at which Remington has been a team member and a motivating force behind their technological successes include Square USA, Weta Digital and Sony Pictures Imageworks, for which he authored patents that describe new methodologies for realistic digital human animation and replication which can be seen on films such as Avatar, Rise of The Apes, Tin Tin, The Hobbit.
His achievements in motion pictures are extensive, including supervisory digital production under filmmakers Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, Robert Zemeckis, Bryan Singer, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Zack Snyder and others.
For Jackson he supervised the Performance Capture team for The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers, which won an Academy Award for Achievement in Visual Effects for "using a computer motion capture system to create the split personality character of Gollum and Smeagol."
For Sakaguchi he became the first professional to direct performance capture for a completely computer-generated theatrically released film. That motion picture was Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, which was widely noted for its outstanding digitally created human characters from the earliest scenes to the conclusion and voted by Computer Graphic Society in the top 10 of the 100 Greatest 3D Movies.
He also worked on Visual Effects Academy Award winner Spider-Man 2 for Raimi and Superman Returns for Singer, and was instrumental in the advanced digital humans of both successful films, as well as Beowulf, Watchmen and Ani-Matrix: Final Flight of The Osiris. The Visual Effects Society nominated his work in the category of Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Picture for Spider-Man 3.
Remington, a graduate of New York's School of Visual Arts, co-created the first digitized home video game in the mid 1980s, a full decade before the technology became mainstream in the consumer marketplace. The design of the most realistic human forms in computer games today can be traced to his efforts. Similarly, in the early 1990s he pioneered three-dimensional performance capture technology for the digitization of human characters in games and movies.
Some of the companies at which Remington has been a team member and a motivating force behind their technological successes include Square USA, Weta Digital and Sony Pictures Imageworks, for which he authored patents that describe new methodologies for realistic digital human animation and replication which can be seen on films such as Avatar, Rise of The Apes, Tin Tin, The Hobbit.
