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Mr. Squires has a full range of experience working with both traditional and cutting edge digital techniques to create photo real visual effects. His career began with the development of the Cloud Tank Effect for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Squires received Oscar nominations for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for The Mask, Dragonheart and Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace. He also received a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy for his pioneering work in the area of Film Input Scanning. He co-founded Dream Quest Images which was a leading visual effects facility from 1979-2001. He was recruited by ILM where he worked as a VFX supervisor and commercial director for twenty years. An avid inventor, Squires has developed a number of tools and processes to accomplish his work. Squires developed Commotion, a visual effects software package for doing rotoscoping, animation and compositing. Squires founded Puffin Designs, Inc. For Van Helsing he developed a technique to shoot bluescreen actresses to match predefined animation. On Dragonheart he wrote a program to gather data from a digital surveyors tool and also convert it into the necessary data format to load into a 3D application. He also wrote the software for doing the exploding star sequence in Dragonheart.You can email your questions to 123filmeasy@gmail.com Link: www.123FilmEasy.com. Follow us on Twitter @123Film