Derek Spears Email & Phone Number

Visual Effects supervisor with extensive involvement in developing and using Scanline’s Virtual Production toolset

Los Angeles

- Visual Effects Supervision of Motion Picture and Television. - Future looking technology direction involving next generation AR and VR as as it relates to production

Emmy award winning Visual Effects Supervisor.● Client interface between studio/director and the facility. Managed the needs of the production vs the available resources and technologies.● Broke down scripts, planned production process to use agile-like development methods, translating the client's vision into artistic and technical implementation.● Project management of large local and international teams across multi-disciplinary lines, iterating shot and sequence development to get client acceptance of milestones.● Ultimately responsible for the completion of multi million dollar projects on time and and budget.● Directed aerial and miniature unit shoots. ● Software development and plugin authoring. Designed and developed an iOS based witness camera system used for motion captureRecent Projects include:● Game of Thrones, Season 5, 6 and 7. Emmy wins for Special Visual Effects in each season.● X-Men: Days of Future Past (Film nominated for anAcademy Award): Directed by Bryan Singer, featured work included Beast transformations.● RIPD: Directed by Robert Schwentke - Photorealistic humans including Kevin Bacon. Large scale destruction FX● Wolfman: Directed by Joe Johnston - CG werewolf and fire FX● Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor: Directed by Rob Cohen - Production co-supervisor, AMPAS bakeoff finalist● Superman Returns (Film nominated for anAcademy Award): Directed by Bryan Singer - Water and environmental FX

CG supervisor for environments on the award winning Nike Virtual Andre commecial

Founded Cinesite's 3D department in Los Angeles. Developed pipeline and methodologies integrating CGI into Cinesite's workflow. Helped develop Cinesite's 3D camera Tracker, mooVTracker.

Member of the Applications Group which was charged with porting and optimizing software for use on SGI's IRIX workstations. Prior to this, I worked in the ImageVision library group as a developer. Primary projects I developed on included included:● Cineon: Principal on loan to Kodak for the architecture design and port of Cineon to the SGI Onyx Reality Engine. ● Photoshop: Responsible for optimization and tuning of Photoshop for its port to IRIX. ● Intergraph : Setup hooks for moving their software to GL.● Landmark Graphics: IRIX Scenario based viewer for AVS based seismic interpretation application