Scott Kirvan VFX - Freelance and Consulting

Real-time filmmaking R&D, focused on image fidelity, mocap, and integration with a VFX pipeline.

Virtual Production - Unreal Engine

● GMC Sierra (on-set VFX Supervisor - Sept 2021) - INVNT - Data-wrangling and HDRI capture - commercial spot.
● 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;
  - Followed shots from pre-production through post, assisting with R&D tests, look-dev, and developing plugins and scripts to improve production efficiency;
  - Improvised and refactored the camera rig after an SFX car destroyed a portion of it, helping quickly get the production moving and keeping the shot in the film.
● 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 challenges on the wing's translucency.
● 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 fast turn-around;
● 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 improvise a dual, in-camera solution, turning a potential post-production nightmare into a relatively simple comp;
  - Worked with the VFX post team, recommended approaches, developed pipeline tools, and procedural shaders/filters to help with final image quality and on-time delivery.

On-Set VFX Supervisor & Technical Adviser

- 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
● Digital Artist - WARRIORS OF MIGHT AND MAGIC - video game cinematic - 3DO

Creative and Production Roles

Visual Effects Society

VES Awards Committee Member

VES WA Section

Visual Effects Society, Washington Section Board of Managers

Apple TV+ / Mesquite Productions

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

On-Set Visual Effects Supervisor

Amazon / Media Res

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.

Associate Visual Effects Supervisor & Scale Ambassador

Slaughter County Brewing Company, LLC

Managing Director

Founder ● Head Brewer

Nike

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

3D Pipeline Engineer - Immersive Tech

Caustic Graphics, Inc.

- 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

AcquiHire • General Manager Brazil r/s™ • M&E Subject Matter Expert

SplutterFish, LLC

- 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: Industrial Light & Magic (Skywalker Ranch, Kerner Optical, & the Presidio), The Orphanage, Matte World Digital, Blur Studio, Max Ink Cafe, Inertia Pictures, Blizzard Entertainment, Frantic Films, Digital Domain, Microsoft Games, Autodesk.

Founder • CEO • Developer

Blur Studio, Inc.

• 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 ADSK’s scanline renderer), and others. 

● 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
● FX Programmer, Look-dev TD - 1001 NIGHTS - short film - Hyperion / BS24 Japan
● Add’l VFX Supervisor (on-set) - SOULKEEPER - feature film - One-Tu-Three Productions
● FX Programmer - THE REAL ADVENTURES OF JONNY QUEST - animated TV series - Hanna-Barbera
● FX Programmer - DEEP RISING - feature film - Walt Disney Pictures
● FX Programmer - THE VISITOR - TV series - Centropolis
● FX Programmer - METEOR ATTACK - stereoscopic ride film - Tobu Zoo, Tokyo
● FX Programmer, Stereoscopic pipeline TD - GUINNESS: RIDE THE RECORDS - Stereoscopic IMAX ride film - Guinness World Records
● FX Programmer - CARNEVIL - video game cinematic - Midway Games

Computer Graphics Specialist • Software Technical Director •  FX Programmer

Highly qualified amalgam of filmmaker, VFX professional, and engineer with an extensive production background and over 20 years in creative, leadership, client-side, supervisory, and vendor-side in-studio roles. Well-versed in a range of compositing, 3D animation, and simulation tools, and a natural collaborator skilled in the use of film and digital methodologies for Virtual Production, VFX, SFX, and Animation.

Current area of focus: Unreal Engine, Virtual Production, Real-time Tools, Pipelines & Workflows

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