Today's indie-effects movement began in 1993, just as the world was being wowed by Industrial Light + Magic's photorealistic dinosaurs in the monster hit "Jurassic Park." Very quietly, a much smaller film was also making history. That picture was "The Fantastic Four," a low-budget feature based on the classic Marvel Comics title and produced by iconc indie Roger Corman. It is no coincidence that Scott Billups worked on both of these turning-point titles - as previsualization expert on "Jurassic Park" and the entire visual effects department on " The Fantastic Four".David E. Williams, Hollywood Reporter, Annual Independent Film - Special Issue
"An individualist in a town where conformity can be a Zen-like state of grace, Billups is not afraid to lock horns with mainstream studios as he seeks to invent "the new Hollywood.Paula Parisi, WIRED, issue 4.09
Scott Billups is one of the most-accomplished, most-sought-after digital effects artists in Hollywood. The guys with the computers, not directors, will be the auteurs.Andrew Marton, Premiere, vol.8, no.9
The rebellious Billups is a former advertising agency heavyweight who cashed in his corporate chips in 1983 and took the fast and loose route to technologys cutting edge with a home production studio that makes most professional post houses look quaint.Paula Parisi, Hollywood Reporter, vol.CCCXXIII, no. 32
A laid-back, self-taught, maestro of digital production, Billups is out on the cutting edge.BUZZ Magazine, LAs top 100 list: Issue 2.07
Scott Billups is a twenty-first century revival tent evangelist, but the story he is preaching has nothing to do with pearly gates, fire or brimstone. Scott is pushing the gospel of Silicon.Craig McGillivray, RES Magazine, issue 1.00
Billups has been on a 22-year, strange trip through cinematography, documentary and commercial filmmaking, advertising and computer graphics. Now Billups is one of the most respected and requested digital producers and special-effects conjurers in the entertainment business.Paul Karon, Los Angeles Times
The films visual effects supervisor, Scott Billups (who began his career as a cinematographer interning with the great James Wong Howe, ASC and set up the AFI media lab) takes delight in demystifying special effects.Ron MagidAmerican Cinematographer, vol.75 no.12
Billups has been on the cusp of some of the film and television industryıs more revolutionary digital projects and techniques.Ann Fisher, Post, vol.11, no.1
Digital Domain president and CEO Scott Ross says people like Billups, equipped with the rare combination of computer skills and traditional filmmaking talents, will be critical to the success of digital productions ... "Renaissance men like Billups are becoming hot commodities throughout the production community." All of this, understandably, has many Hollywood veterans more than a tad concerned.Daniel Todd, WIRED, issue 1.06
Provocative and confident, Billups is at the far edge of digital thinking in Tinseltown. Too far, in fact, for many Hollywood traditionalists. His digital conceptions have become a hotly contested issue in Hollywood. And Mr. Billups is squarely on the hot seat.Frederick Rose, The Wall Street Journal
One of the earliest evangelists of digital motion picture technology is Scott Billups. He offers the possibility that a new generation of true film auteurs will be able to mold their story with the same control of painters or novelists.Steven D. Katz, Millimeter, issue 3.3
Clearly, Billups and some other directors, producers and studios are edging closer to what all of filmdom is eyeing with amazement, apprehension, and, well, avarice: the dawning of the digital age of film. Scott Billups and others in the film industry are exploring the digital realm with the fervor of paleontologists on the dig of the century.Peter Britton, Popular Science, Vol. 243 No.5
Billups conceived of the idea of modifying a video camera to plug directly into a computers hard disk drive so that images can be digitally recorded.Eric Taub, Emmy Magazine, issue 7.3
Scott Billups is the first person, in Hollywood, at least, to reach deep into the heart of his bit-circuited incubator and pull out something imbued with a spark of electronic life. Billupss courtly manner, springy step, and tidy hair call to mind a gearheaded Cary Grant. But he is a special-effects meister with an attitude, the first postmodern effects cowboy.Paula Parisi, WIRED, issue 3.12
Director/Producer Scott Billups has assembled one of the most advanced computer-based digital project rooms in North America within the confines of his home overlooking the Pacific Ocean.Brian McKearnan, Videography
Like a high-tech Dr. Frankenstein, Billups is creating a wholly digital "synthespian" for GTE Entertainment and foresees a day when you could actually arry on a conversation with a virtual character.Ken Neville, Entertainment Weekly
Billups is at the forefront of the digital revolution, a one man factory producing award winning commercials, special effects, and animated sequences.Tom Negrino, Desktop Video
