Dale Duguid

Dale Duguid is an Australian visual effects supervisor and production designer who is credited on multiple films and TV series.[1][2] After a career spanning production design, art direction, directing AND screenwriting, DUGUID established a viable visual effects industry for long form production within Australia through the creation of the Visual Effects design and production company Photon Stockman in 1991. Duguid was recognised with a medal from Queen Elizabeth II for having been a prime mover for the VFX industry in Australia. According to one report: "He was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the 2001 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to the Queensland film industry."[1]

Duguid’s VFX credits include Superman Returns, Australia, House of Wax, Ghost Ship, and several others.[1] His most recent listed movie which he worked on was The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010).[3] Duguid has worked with some noted Hollywood talent, and contributed to visual effects nominated for an Oscar (on Superman Returns[4] produced by Gil Adler), and an Emmy award (for mini-series, Moby Dick, which starred Patrick Stewart as Captain Ahab, and was produced by Francis Ford Coppola).[5][6] Duguid was also an executive producer and CEO of SMI-photon, a visual effects and animation multi-national with interests in Beijing, Hong Kong and Australia.