Sande Scoredos, who had an impact on thousands of animators and visual effects artists as the longtime director of technical training and artist development for Sony Pictures Imageworks, died Aug. 14. She was 63.
Scoredos came to Sony in 1996 to set up its training department, having previously held a similar job at visual effects house Rhythm and Hues.
At Imageworks, she lead the founding of the IPAX academic outreach program in 2004. Under her leadership, Imageworks’ training program offered more than 50 courses, from life drawing, sculpting and acting to specialized classes in animation, effects, compositing and production management.
She also worked as manager of training for Wavefront Technologies, she designed the worldwide training program and curriculum, instructing professionals in the use of 3D computer graphics and animation.
Scoredos also taught computer graphics for production at the studio and university level and as a UCLA graduate, she works with local educational programs program and also teaches a yearly production course at MIT. She served on various industry and academic advisory boards and was an active ACM SIGGRAPH committee member and chaired the SIGGRAPH 2001 Computer Animation Festival and is the Curator Chairwoman for the SIGGRAPH 2008 Computer Animation Festival.
Born in Colorado Springs, Colo., she is survived by her husband, John, and her sister Perri MacHugh Silver, who lives in Secretary, Md.
A memorial service is planned for Aug. 21 at 4 p.m. at the Conejo Mountain Memorial Park, 2052 Howard Road, Camarillo, CA 93012. The family requests donations in lieu of flowers be made to The Angeles Clinic Foundation, 2001 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 560W, Santa Monica, CA 90404.
A tribute to Scoredos at Sony Pictures Imageworks will be announced.
