Remington Scott
Founder of HYPERREAL
Remington Scott
Founder of HYPERREAL
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder / CEO / Chief Architect
2020 - Current
Hyperreal is powering ownership, control, performance and monetization of Digital Identity across virtual and synthetic ecosystems.
Founder / CEO
2009 - 2020
Remington has directed performance capture productions for top grossing franchises including Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Just Cause and Resistance for Sony Computer Entertainment of America, Activision, Square and Avalanche. Remington Scott Productions (RSP) is the market leader in producing digital celebrities of Asia’s most recognized stars which have powered China’s first all CGI feature films. Recently RSP has created avatars of Leo Messi for the AI experience "Talk to Messi" and Jackie Chan for feature film. JUST CAUSE 4 Directed performance capture sessions for cinematic with emphasis on character development and story. CALL OF DUTY: ADVANCED WARFARE Directed Performance Capture sessions featuring Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey. Worked within framework of new narrative structure that is more akin to a season of episodic television rather than a game or three act film. Guided the team to utilize new performance capture methodologies (a first for Activision). Supervised FACS photogrammetry sessions used to create digital doubles. THE ORDER: 1886 Ready at Dawn's first performance captured game. Remington worked closely with RAD, guiding them to realize a new vision of photo real digital humans and emotionally compelling character moments as performance capture director. KILLZONE: SHADOW FALL Direct performance capture for an in-game sequence and cinematic. RESISTANCE: BURNING SKIES One of the most popular and unique game franchises, RESISTANCE: BURNING SKIES is a tale of survival during the August 1951 Chimeran invasion of the East Coast. THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Beenox's AMAZING SPIDER-MAN delivers the feeling of being the web slinger to the player. NEED FOR SPEED: THE RUN Directed live action sessions to determine viability of script and action before committing to CG production. KILLZONE 3 Direct concept to post, cinematics and performance capture for bid that won account for all studio service and cinematic work.
Co-Founder / Studio Chief Virtual Production
2015 - 2019
As a founding partner of MacInnes Scott, Remington Scott has contributed leadership experience in the development of digital human animation and his world class artistic and technical teams to win the Advanced Imaging Society's Lumiere Award for Best Augmented Reality Experience for Netflix's Altered Carbon global activation. He has produced and directed the VR experiences GRACE and E.K.I.A. (The US Navy Seal Raid on Osama Bin Laden). He oversaw the development of the first digital human to be registered on the blockchain and was instrumental in receiving an Epic Mega Grant for the David Bowie real-time experience at the Infinity Festival 2019.
Computer Graphic Supervisor, Special Projects
2003 - 2009
As a Special Project Computer Graphic Supervisor, Remington has led the digital human team which has resulted in authoring several patents for Sony Pictures Imageworks including Capturing and Processing Facial Data Using Head Mounted Cameras (Patent US 7,606,392 & 2009/0324017) that describe methodologies for realistic digital human animation which can be seen in industry standard performance capture productions. For WATCHMEN, Remington designed the frame work for the facial capture pipeline, directed actor Billy Crudup on-set FACS session and animated Doc Manhattan facial performances. Remington has directed performance capture sessions for SPIDER-MAN 3. The facial pipeline, including rigging and animation was overseen by Remington, who was nominated by the Visual Effects Society for "Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Film". For the Academy Award Visual Effects nominated SUPERMAN RETURNS Remington directed Brandon Routh's (Clark Kent/Superman) facial capture and oversaw high level control. 2004 Best Visual Effects Academy Award winner, SPIDER-MAN 2, is Sony Pictures Imageworks’ first film to feature realistic principle digital human characters whose facial performances were motion captured. Remington directed capture sessions as well as created all facial animation for the film.
Motion Capture Supervisor
2001 - 2003
At Weta Digital, Remington supervised and defined the motion capture production for performance animation. THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS received the Academy Award for Achievement in Visual Effects for "Using computer motion capture system to create the split personality character of Gollum and Sméagol." -Keanu Reeves, Presenter, 75th Academy Awards Remington worked closely with Peter Jackson to bring Gollum and other digital characters of Middle Earth to life. Remingtons responsibilities included on-set supervision and direction at the capture soundstage as well as on-location. In order to ensure the highest quality of character performance animation, Remington supervised teams of performance animators for shots consisting of motion captured characters.
Motion Capture Director
1998 - 2001
The Producer/Director of the multi-billion dollar FINAL FANTASY video game franchise, Hironobu Sakaguchi, tapped Remington as the department head of motion capture for his groundbreaking computer generated feature film, FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN, the first theatrically released animated film to use motion capture to create all the principle digital human performances. Remington produced, directed and supervised all performance capture at Square Pictures, Honolulu. In 2001, The Wachowski's. commissioned Square Pictures to create a short film companion piece to THE MATRIX: RELOADED that would expand the Matrix universe. THE ANI-MATRIX: FINAL FLIGHT OF THE OSIRIS, the all computer generated theatrically released short, again featured all motion captured characters that Remington produced and supervised.
Art Director
1997 - 1998
Partner in computer graphic studio. Oversaw all art and design. Motion captured Olympic Gold Medallist Kristi Yamaguchi for interactive ice skating product.
Interactive Director
1994 - 1996
Responsible for digital content development at corporate headquarters for distribution to national and international developers. Member of Advanced Technologies Group. Director at worlds first motion capture facility dedicated to entertainment and animation. Projects include TUROK: DINOSAUR HUNTER, the multi-platinum selling Nintendo classic.
Animation Director
1992 - 1994
"Team A" Animation Director for North America's largest 3rd party Nintendo/Sega developer.
Animation Lead
1986 - 1991
Co-creator of first digitized home video game WWF: SUPERSTARS OF WRESTLING, Atari ST, 1986. Created computer animations and graphics for video games utilizing licenses from Disney, Warner Bros., World Wrestling Federation, Childrens Television Workshop.
Education
Fine Arts
1987 - 1991