Scott Sinclair


Scott's extensive career as an environmental designer began in Los Angeles in 1980, working freelance as a set designer, scenic artist, conceptual artist, illustrator and model builder. His clients included studios at ABC Television, Universal, Columbia and Disney as well as production departments within Ice Capades and Disneyland. Scott spent a year as a part-time college instructor teaching advanced scenic painting at California State University at Long Beach. He and his students produced exhibition murals for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Scott holds an AA degree in art and bachelor's degree in technical theatre from California State University at Long Beach.

In 1983 Disneyland's Entertainment Art Department brought Scott in as a model shop foreman and art director. There he conceptualized and rendered production designs of many live events for Disney theme parks and the Disney Studios as well as a number of outside charitable events Disney was involved with. He created designs for the opening ceremonies and street decor of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Tokyo Disneyland's opening day parade and touring Disneyland promotional stage shows across Canada, Australia, and the U.S.

In 1991 Scott moved to Japan for the Landmark Entertainment Group. As live entertainment concept/production designer on Puroland, Scott's efforts encompassed the design of a black light parade and major Christmas musical stage show.

On returning from Japan Scott was hired by Walt Disney Imagineering as a theme park show designer. Projects included concept development for Disney's America and concept development for Walt Disney World's New Tomorrowland. Scott later served as lead show designer for Tokyo Disney Sea. Along with Disney Sea's chief concept architect, Scott was responsible for story ideas, conceptual master planning and attraction concept design within the three billion dollar theme park.

For Sony Entertainment's San Francisco Metreon retail/entertainment complex Scott collaborated with celebrity talents Jean "Moebius" Giraud, David Macaulay (The Way Things Work), and Maurice Sendak (Where The Wild Things Are) to facilitate their visions while at the same time ensuring retail environments would be functionally successful.

Scott was the lead designer/creative director for London's Millennium Dome. For Seattle's newly opened Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame Scott provided the initial concept designs for numerous galleries via computer models as well as hand illustrations.