Dale Duguid is an Australian visual effects supervisor and producer who is credited on multiple features and TV series. After a career spanning production design, art direction, directing & screenwriting, Dale established a viable visual effects industry for long form production within Australia through the creation of the Visual Effects design and production company Photon in 1991. Duguid was recognised with a medal from Queen Elizabeth II for having been a prime mover for the vfx industry in Australia.Duguid’s vfx credits include “Superman Returns,” “Australia,” “House Of Wax,” ”Ghost Ship,” and several others. Duguid has worked with some noted Hollywood talent, and contributed to visual effects nominated for an Oscar (on Superman Returns produced by Gil Adler), and an Emmy award (for mini-series, Moby Dick, which starred Patrick Stewart of Star Trek as Captain Ahab, and was produced by Francis Ford Coppola).Presently Duguid is an executive producer and CEO of SMI-photon: a visual effects and animation multi-national with interests in Beijing, Hong Kong and Australia.
Originally Founded Photon Stockman visual effects company in 1990; re-branded it as Photon VFX in 1995; merged as SMI Photon in HongKong in 2011, reinstated Photon VFX brand in 2015.
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Oxenford, Queensland, Australia [January 2009]
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He was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the 2001 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to the film industry.
Visual Effects
Title
Year
Status
Character
Australia
2008
facility executive producer: Photon VFX
Superman Returns
2006
visual effects supervisor: Photon Vfx
House of Wax
2005
visual effects designer / visual effects production manager
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
2004
visual effects supervisor
Ghost Ship
2002
visual effects supervisor
When Good Ghouls Go Bad
2001
TV Movie visual effects supervisor
Rip Girls
2000
TV Movie visual effects supervisor
Max Knight: Ultra Spy
2000
TV Movie visual effects designer
Moby Dick
1998
TV Mini-Series visual effects supervisor - 2 episodes
Doom Runners
1997
TV Movie visual effects designer
Welcome to Woop Woop
1997
visual effects designer
Paradise Road
1997
visual effects supervisor: Photon Stockman
Ocean Girl
1994
TV Series visual effects supervisor - 13 episodes
Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story
1993
TV Movie visual effects designer
Irresistible Force
1993
TV Movie visual effects
Mission: Impossible
1989
TV Series visual effects designer - 6 episodes
Production Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left
1993-1994
TV Series 28 episodes
Art Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mission: Impossible
1988-1989
TV Series 3 episodes
A Cry in the Dark
1988
Travelling North
1987
The Blue Lightning
1986
TV Movie
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mission: Impossible
1989-1990
TV Series written by - 2 episodes
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bliss
1985
assistant art director
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Adventures of Voopa the Goolash
2007
TV Series producer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Daybreakers
2009
thanks
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1998
Primetime Emmy
Primetime Emmy Awards
Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries or a Movie
$300,000
