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Scottie "Scott" Thornton Rader II (born 1 April 1972; age 51) is a visual effects artist who worked as effects compositor on Star Trek: The Next Generation (while employed at Digital Magic), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager. In 1996 he worked for POP Film as digital visual effects supervisor on Star Trek: First Contact.

During his time on Star Trek his work for the franchise earned him one Emmy Award nomination and two Emmy Awards wins for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects.

Career outside Star Trek[]

Born as Scottie Thornton Rader II to Finnish parents he spent his childhood in Stockholm, Sweden. Several years later he moved to Los Angeles and started his career in the special and visual effects department. In 2004 he won a Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Music Video for his work on Missy Elliott's video "Pass That Dutch", shared with Star Trek Nemesis 3D animation artist Aladino V. Debert.

Beside his work on Star Trek, Rader was an effects compositor on the television science fiction film Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993, along with Don Greenberg, Adam Howard, Simon Holden, Laurie Resnick, Brannon Wright, and Joe White), worked for POP Films as digital compositor on Independence Day (1996), as key compositor for Digital Domain on Titanic (1997), and as digital artist on The Fifth Element (1997) and The Pentagon Papers (2003, along with Thomas Mahoney and Edward L. Williams).

Between 2003 and 2006 he worked as digital effects artist and visual effects supervisor for the company Radium on Something's Gotta Give (2003, along with David Sosalla, Brian Fisher, Don Greenberg, and Brad Kalinoski), Are We There Yet? (2005), Æon Flux (2005), the comedy The Holiday (2006, with David Sosalla, Antonio Torres, Jeremy Lang, Brian Hanable, Scott Dougherty, and Jamie Baxter), and Apocalypto (2006).

More recently he worked as digital effects supervisor on the drama Black Snake Moan (2006), as compositing supervisor on the television movie Princess (2008, with Aladino V. Debert), and the fantasy comedy Bedtime Stories (2008).

Awards for Star Trek[]

Rader received the following award nominations and wins for his work on Star Trek,

Emmy Awards[]

For his work on Star Trek Scott Rader has received the following Emmy Awards and nomination as Visual Effects Compositor in the category Outstanding Achievement in Special Visual Effects:

International Monitor Awards[]

  • 1996 International Monitor Award win in the category Film Originated Television Series – Electronic Visual Effects for VOY Season 2, shared with Dan Curry, David Stipes, Adam Howard, Joe Bauer, Edward L. Williams, Michael Backauskas, and Don Greenberg

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