Scott Kirvan Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

• VFX Supervisor & Shadow Master (Client-side), Glampire (puppets, contributing writer, & artist);
• On-Set VFX Supervisor (Client-side), 2022 GMC Sierra Brand Rollout (plate supervisor & wrangler);
• Virtual Production & Unreal Engine: Focus on ICVFX, image fidelity, workflows, & vfx pipeline.

Sherman Oaks, California, US

Section Membership & Outreach Chair

Culver City, CA, US

On-Set Visual Effects Supervisor for season 4 of Apple TV+'s hit series, "For All Mankind."

Seattle, Washington, US

Associate VFX Supervisor and Scale (as in "Size") Ambassador of Boots Riley's new Amazon series I'M A VIRGO (in post-production). Pre-production, forced-perspective shot planning, on-set VFX supervision, and Unreal Engine tech-viz.

• Successfully built and grew a community oriented, microbrewery, restaurant & events space;
• Ran all financial/business planning/strategy/management, brand management, marketing, and PR;
• Led production & restaurant operations, QC, marketing, customer relations, licensing & compliance;
• Facilitated successful sale of SCBC in 2022; led negotiations, diligence, and contract finalization.

Beaverton, OR, US

Unreal Engine Editor Tools, Cloud (Pixel) Streaming, and Unreal Build Automation. Python & Blueprint dev in UE4, AWS, Github, Jira, Jenkins.

• SWORDFISH (pre-production, on-set, post) - Warner Brothers - Bullet time explosion and helicopter sequences; - Worked closely with VFX Supervisor, generating data for and coordinating between multiple VFX & SFX teams.
• JEEPERS CREEPERS (on-set) - American Zoetrope - Creature wing reveal; - Coordinated with the Director and DP, Supervised and data-wrangled the shot; - Helped the VFX team with look-dev and in overcoming some rendering.
• FREAKYLINKS (on-set) - Fox Television / E=mc2 - CG Creature FX; - Simple supervision gig with a couple locked-off shots, data collection, and reference materials delivered to the VFX team - episodic television, so very.
• SOULKEEPER (on-set) - One-Tu-Three Productions - multiple sequences; - Mostly standard oversight, data collection, and reference; - Following a prop failure, worked with the 1st AD, and the 1st and 2nd unit cameras to.

• Bidding & Script Breakdowns- Treatments, Scriptwriting, & Editing- Cross Functional Team Leadership- Coordination and Tracking
• Actor, ”Blaine” - TILT - short film - Dirty Shirley Productions
• Add’l Writer, Actor ”Soldier 3”, Digital Artist - ONLY HOPE - short film - Max Ink Productions
• Lighting TD, Digital Artist - GENERA - short film - Inertia Pictures
• FX Programmer, stereoscopic 2D look-dev - SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS 4-D - Paramount Parks / Nickelodeon
• Digital Artist - SPORTS CENTER - ident-bumper - Sports Center/RazorFish

- Served as liaison to A-list film and entertainment studios, architectural firms, and fortune 500 hardware and software vendors;- Provided technical guidance and validation of integration; Brazil API & Caustic raytracing hardware;- SME in meetings with top-level studios and directors

- Co-authored the globally recognized Brazil Rendering System; - Developed business relationships and provided consultation to A-list studios, architecture & design firms, hardware and software producers, and cloud rendering providers; - Provided personal on-site tech support and production assistance ("smokejumping") for key customers including.

Culver City, CA, US

• Took on various technical and artistic responsibilities in support of production requirements.
• Occasionally provided on-set supervision for the facility and contributed substantially to the studio’s stereoscopic and non-photoreal pipelines.
• Contributed technically and creatively during staff meetings and assisted with artist education, especially in communicating old-school techniques and math-centric methods and concepts;
• Represented the studio in meetings, contract negotiations, and software licensing agreements with Autodesk, Inc., licensing several plug-in products; ILM’s OpenEXR, RayFX (an integrated ray tracer that worked inside.
• FX Programmer, Digital Artist - SOUTH PARK: BIGGER LONGER, AND UNCUT - feature film - Comedy Partners
• Lighting TD, FX Programmer - FOR THE CAUSE - feature film - Grand Designs

Producer of computer graphics software and peripherals for the Amiga Computer.- Designed and developed 2 customer facing software applications; Edimator™, an interactive, non-linear digital editing suite, and the DigiMax™, 3D digitizer;- On a dare, revolutionized the importance of shaders in our flagship product, Imagine™, by developing more than 100.

Medical hardware and software developer; biophysical data collection and analysis.- Developed, debugged and maintained customer facing features for analysis and visualization of medical biosignal data;- Developed the first real-time digital filter to accurately monitor the heart rate of premature babies