Blue Sky| VIFX has promoted producer Christopher Scollard to senior producer. He is based in the bicoastal companys Harrison facility.
Since joining Blue Sky|VIFX in 1995, Scollard has produced commercials for Diet Coke via Lowe & Partners/SMS, New York; Honeycomb via Grey Advertising, New York; Gillette via BBDO New York; Black Flag for Young & Rubicam, New York; Scrubbing Bubbles via Foote, Cone & Belding, Chicago; and Capri Sun through Ogilvy & Mather, New York.
At Blue Sky|VIFX, Scollard has also served as the digital effects producer for the features Star Trek: Insurrection, Alien: Resurrection, Mouse Hunt and independent features Lulu on the Bridge and Just The Ticket. He is currently working on Fight Club, a David Fincher-directed feature slated for release later this year.
Prior to joining Blue Sky| VIFX, Scollard spent a year and a half at Young & Rubicam, New York, as an assistant producer, where he worked on campaigns for Sears, Kraft Foods, American Home Products, Benadryl and Molson.
Before his stint at Young & Rubicam, Scollard spent three years as a New York-based cinematographer. During that period, Scollard also was a part-time instructor at the New York Institute of Technology, teaching evening courses in film and video production. Scollard was a full-time student at Columbia Universitys graduate film school studying towards a masters of fine arts degree, during the same period.
Scollard spent six months as a director/writer/producer at the Hawthorne office of the Swiss-based multinational CIBA-Geigy Corp., before he embarked on his career as a student and instructor. While at CIBA-Geigy, Scollard ran the companys in-house promotions department.
Before his stint at CIBA-Geigy, Scollard served as a traffic coordinator for a year at New York-based Telstar Editing. Prior to Telstar, Scollard spent a year at Queens-based Arriflex camera rental company Rossell CPT as assistant to the president/prep technician. Scollard served for a year as a tape librarian/assistant producer in the computer graphics department at now defunct Editel/New York, before landing at Rossell CPT.
