James George is multidisciplinary creator. He is CEO and Co-Founder of Scatter, a creative company dedicated to defining the emerging language of volumetric filmmaking. Scatter’s first product is Depthkit, the most accessible tool for volumetric video capture. Prior to founding Scatter, George was a filmmaker, new media artist and technical director.

George coined the term ‘Volumetric Filmmaking’ in his 2016 essay A New Dimension in Filmmaking. Volumetric filmmaking is a new way of making visual effects and immersive media that fuses filmmaking with video games. Using 3D scans of real places and real people, VF allows creators to construct interactive augmented and virtual reality experiences from photorealistic captured reality.

The first volumetric film, CLOUDS, was co-directed by James George and Jonathan Minard and premiered at Sundance in 2014. The initial Depthkit software prototype was also created during the production of CLOUDS. Since then, hundreds of volumetric films have been made all over the world by a growing community of artists and directors.

Volumetric filmmaking has been recognized as an important emerging medium by the world’s largest technology and media companies including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Intel, WarnerMedia and Verizon.

Immersive Media Credits

CLOUDS, Co-Director
Sundance New Frontier 2014, Tribeca Storyscapes Award for Transmedia 2014

Zero Days VR, Executive Producer and Technical Advisor
Sundance New Frontier 2017, Emmy News & Documentary: Original Approaches 2017

Blackout, Executive Producer and Technical Director
Tribeca Storyscapes 2017

The Changing Same, Executive Producer and Technical Advisor
Sundance New Frontier 2021, Tribeca Festival: Best immersive Narrative 2021

Selected Press & Interviews

• James George on Creative New York - Museum of Modern Art

• Virtual Reality: The Wearable Movie - New Yorker Radio Hour, WNYC

• Tech As Art: Case Study - National Endowment for the Arts

• When Virtual Reality Competes with Reality - BBC Click

• Inventing Volumetric Filmmaking - Shaping Business Minds Through Art Podcast, The Artian

• Democratizing Volumetric Capture with Scatter’s Depthkit: The History, Evolution, & Future of Accessible Volumetric Filmmaking - Voices of VR

• Stuxnet Documentary ‘Zero Days VR’ Wins an Emmy - Road to VR

• Cracking the Narrative Code of VR with the Interactive Documentary Genre - Voices of VR

• The Groundbreaking Volumetric Filmmaking of Scatter - Filmmaker Magazine

• Computational Photography Is Ready For Its Close-Up - PC Magazine

• A Rikers Island Doctor Debuts At Tribeca Film Festival, With Help From This Artist-Led VR Company - Forbes

• What Only Artists Can Teach Us About Technology, Data, and Surveillance - The Stranger

• Is It Art? Artists Are Turning Their Work into Startups - Vice

• Inside Microsoft Research’s First Artist-in-Residence Program - Fast Company

• 5 Questions for Jonathan Minard and James George, Creators of The Tribeca Storyscapes Award Winning CLOUDS - PBS POV

• The Art of Creative Coding - PBS Off Book

• At Eyebeam, making art from the technology that tracks our every move - The Verge

Selected Writing & Lectures

• Expressing Our True Likeness in the Metaverse with Volumetric Video - Medium, Essay

• Brief History of Volumetric Filmmaking - Medium, Essay

• A New Dimension in Filmmaking - Medium, Essay

• Volumetric Filmmaking: Democratizing A New Medium - FirstMark's Hardwired, Lecture

• Imaging the Future - Eyeo Festival, Lecture

• CLOUDS Director’s Tour - Eyeo Festival, Lecture