Scott Peterson – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

Scott Peterson

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • DreamWorks Pictures

Other / Past Affiliation(s):


  • Pacific Data Images (PDI)
  • Baobab Studios

Bio:

  • SIGGRAPH 2018

    Scott Peterson is the Director of Interactivity at Baobab studios. He adds dimension to storytelling by building interactive worlds, as seen in ?Crow the Legend,? and ?Asteroids?. As an indie game developer, he developed and released the mobile game, ?Shazap: Match Draw? in 2017. During his tenure at Zynga before that, he received a People?s Choice award for his work on Farmville, Tropic Escape. Scott served as Head of Effects at DreamWorks Animation for 18 years. He received an Academy Award for technical achievement in 2015 for developing the DreamWorks Animation Foliage System. In addition to supervising effects on four films, including Madagascar 2 and 3, Scott wrote and directed an award-winning animated short Sprout. He graduated from Cal Poly in 1997 with a BS in computer science and an art minor. He resides in Mountain View, California, with his wife and their two children.

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