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AURORA SKY STUDIO  ·  ART & TECHNOLOGY IN HARMONY
SCOT BARBOUR
DIRECTOR
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SCOT BARBOUR
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
AURORA SKY STUDIO
The Craft
DGA DIRECTOR — SCOT BARBOUR

An eye that evolves with the medium.

Director's Reel

2026 · 1:35

Selected Work

08 PRODUCTIONS · CLICK TO OPEN
Nightfall
VR Concert
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The Long Wait
VR Concert / Narrative
EMMY NOMINATED
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Salt & Static
Live Stream Concert
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Duran Duran — Five Years
Music Video
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Malfunkshun
Documentary
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Aurora
Concert / Narrative
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Echo State
AI Short Concept
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The New Arrival
Branded Short
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SCOT BARBOUR
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
AURORA SKY STUDIO
Virtual Production Pipeline
Scot behind the camera on set

Best Use of Virtual Production.

10th Annual Lumière Awards
Advanced Imaging Society · 2019

Recipient Scot Barbour, with Shark Tank producer Alex Halatchev, onstage at Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank.

RECOGNITION
Winner — Lumière Award, 2019
Shark Tank · Best Use of Virtual Production
Winner — Webby Award, 2018
Cycling Pathways to Mars · VR: Branded Cinematic or Pre-Rendered
People’s Voice — Webby, 2018
Cycling Pathways to Mars · VR: Branded Cinematic or Pre-Rendered
Emmy Nominated ×2
Cycling Pathways to Mars · The Notorious B.I.G.: Sky’s the Limit
FOUNDER
Oasis Imagery
Hollywood’s first virtual-production stage; live broadcast-quality stereoscopic 3D
Sony Pictures Innovation Studios
Sony Pictures’ virtual-production stage & entity — volumetric set scanning & real-time compositing
VOIA
AI virtual-production pipeline — real-time environments with no green screen, previz through post in one workflow
Aurora Sky Studio
Independent studio for my directorial work — feature documentary, a published book & a graphic novel
FORMAT PIONEER
NLEs
Strategic development on Apple’s Final Cut Studio
HD
Early high-definition production
3D
2D→3D conversion pioneer; first live point-cloud plates
4K
World’s first 4K music video
120fps HFR
World’s first 120fps / 4K / 3D feature
AI
Early AI filming & compositing
PATENTED · 5×
Multi-factor VR authentication
Secure VR login combining a password with how you move the headset
Volumetric rig calibration
Auto-calibrates a multi-camera capture stage using projected light patterns
Multi-sensor camera rig
One lens capturing visible & infrared together for richer depth data
Synchronized projection & capture
Hides calibration patterns between frames — invisible on screen, captured for depth
Optical look via metadata
Stores a camera's look as metadata to re-apply it in post over untouched raw

Physical reality, virtually extended.

PRINCIPAL SYSTEMS ARCHITECT
Vice President, Production Technology
Sony Pictures · 2012–2019
Multi-camera genlock & timecode orchestration · real-time plates built from live 3D point clouds of subjects & objects — years before Gaussian splatting

Innovation Across Formats & Genres

08 SELECT PROJECTS
Taylor Swift — We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
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One Direction: This Is Us — 3D documentary
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk — 120fps/4K/3D
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Men in Black — NBA Finals Spot
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Shark Tank — Seasons 10 & 11
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Buzz Aldrin: Cycling Pathways to Mars — VR
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One Day at a Time — behind the scenes
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AI Virtual Production
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