Spencer is Industrial Light & Magic’s Vice President, Finance, reporting to SVP, General Manager Janet Lewin. He joined ILM’s finance group in 2014, just in time for the Vancouver studio’s grand opening, where he served as Director, Finance and Production Accounting. His area of focus has always been in film and television production. Having previously served as Executive in Charge of ILM’s Vancouver and San Francisco studios, Spencer also has an in-depth knowledge of production and operations at the studio.
Spencer earned his Canadian CPA designation while working in the tax and audit groups of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. After numerous interesting engagements, including a short-term assignment to India, he eventually made his way into visual effects, leading a global production accounting team before joining ILM. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of British Columbia, specializing in business and accounting.
Spencer is the co-chair of the Animation & VFX Alliance of British Columbia (BC) and a board member of the Motion Picture Production Industry Association of BC (MPPIA).
Jeff White is a Visual Effects Supervisor and Creative Director for ILM Vancouver. In 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored White with a Technical Achievement Award for his original design of ILM’s procedural rigging system, Block Party. That same year he received an Oscar nomination for visual effects for his work on Kong: Skull Island.
White joined Industrial Light & Magic in 2002 as a creature technical director. He is a graduate of Ithaca College’s Cinema and Photography program and has a Masters of Fine Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Prior to attending graduate school, White worked as technical director for Laika Studios in Portland, Oregon.
After arriving at ILM, White worked as a Creature Technical Director on a variety of films including Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, War of the Worlds, and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. White is also the co-creator of ILM’s well-known Block Party creature rigging system, which automates the time-consuming process of complex character rigging. On Transformers he served as Digital Production Supervisor. Continuing his work with the franchise, White served as the Associate Visual Effects Supervisor on Revenge of the Fallen and Co-Visual Effects Supervisor on Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
In 2012, White served as the ILM Visual Effects Supervisor on Marvel’s blockbuster film The Avengers directed by Joss Whedon, and received both an Academy Award and BAFTA nomination for the work. After a stint supervising the early work on Michael Bay’s Transformers Age of Extinction, Jeff assumed the role of Visual Effects Supervisor on Warcraft, based on the legendary video game by Blizzard Entertainment. In 2017 he served as the Visual Effects Supervisor for Kong: Skull Island, for which he received a nomination from the Visual Effects Society for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature in addition to the Oscar nomination.
