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Having worked at a number of the top post houses around the world during his fifteen-year career, Simon Scott, a veteran digital artist, is no stranger to Sapphire Plug-ins and their integral role in the creative workflow. Now, as he is planning his new company Process, a California-based visual effects company, he's bringing the lessons of the past and his Sapphire Plug-ins with him. His emerging company, already responsible for the latest music video from the Chemical Brothers, has longer term plans which include no less than a redefinition of post-production workflow. He's tight-lipped about his exact plans, but describes an open environment of cooperation and collaboration between all the players -- a place where the "backroom" becomes non-existent, and creativity can flow and flourish from early in the conceptual stages through delivery.
Scott's own creative streak is closely entwined with a strong technical background in programming, both of which he developed at an early age. As a child, he channeled his fascination for the relationship between coding and imaging into the task of writing computer games for various companies. Later, he earned a Masters of Arts from Headington University in computer-based design. He got his first job in London working on Quantel's Mirage, then later moved through Harry, Henry, before settling on Discreet's Flame.
It was on a Flame during a visit to Smoke and Mirrors that Scott first saw an early version of Sapphire Plug-ins and from that day forward he was fascinated with their possibilities. "My first thought was: 'This is it, a Flame with sparks, pure nirvana,'" he recalls. "I had always been open to embracing new tools, so I quickly adopted Sapphire into my workflow and was really pleased with the results."
The richness of the Sapphire toolset is what initially impressed Scott, and it's the depth of the package that continues to meet his creative challenges. "One can combine the effects in so many subtle ways that the results are often very photographic," he notes.
Scott used a combination of Sapphire effects on music videos for The Chemical Brothers and David Gahan's track "I Need You," both of which were recently completed through Process.
The Chemical Brothers project made extensive use of Sapphire Plug-ins. Since some of the footage was 16mm, Scott employed Sapphire FlickerMatch and Grain to integrate the elements. To achieve the psychedelic look required for the transition between the office world and the imaginary hippy world, WarpChroma was called to task. GlowMask, WarpMask, LensMask and MathOps were also used in the transition.
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