Background

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Scott F. Johnston founded Fleeting Image Animation, Inc. in 1997 to develop and produce animation combining traditional and computer generated techniques. As Animation Special Effects Supervisor for Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003, Warner Bros.), Johnston oversaw the integration of the traditionally drawn characters into the live-action plates. In addition to lighting the characters, this role involved the recreation of various artists' styles in the Louvre sequence. Johnston was honored with the 2003 Ub Iwerks technical achievement "Annie Award" by ASIFA. In 2001, Johnston invented a method for applying CG lighting to drawn artwork. The result, "Lumo: Illumination for Cel Animation," was presented at the Annecy 2002 Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR). Johnston served as Artistic Coordinator on The Iron Giant (1999, Warner Bros.) where he worked with the artistic staff, technical crew, and production management to realize the director's vision, weighing creative solutions and technical requirements against resource limitations. Johnston joined Walt Disney Feature Animation during the production of The Little Mermaid (1989), he was the Technical Director on The Prince and the Pauper (1990) and served on the team that brought the first digital ink-and-paint system, CAPS, on-line for The Rescuers Down Under (1990). He was a principal designer of the ballroom sequence in Beauty and the Beast (1991) and contributed several effects to Aladdin (1992). As CGI Supervisor for The Lion King (1994), he oversaw the development and production of all the computer-generated effects in the record-breaking film, including the climactic wildebeest stampede. Johnston has lectured about CG and animation around the world, and contributed a chapter on non-photorealistic rendering to "Advanced RenderMan: Creating CGI for Motion Pictures" (2002, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers). You can read an interview with Scott at Animation Artist Online.

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