Scott Squires (born 1956) is a visual effects supervisor and director. His first film project was
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where he developed the Cloud Tank Effect. In 1979 Squires,
Hoyt Yeatman, Rocco Gioffre, Fred Iguchi, Tom Hollister and Bob Hollister co-founded
Dream Quest Images, a visual effects house, which was later purchased by Disney. Squires was president of Dream Quest and left in 1985 to work for
Industrial Light and Magic. Squires worked as visual effects supervisor and commercial director at ILM for 20 years and is now a freelance director and visual effects supervisor.