Steve Schklair

Steve Schklair, founder and CEO of 3ality Digital Systems, has been working at the front edge of new technologies for most of his career.  He has left a mark in movies, special effects, and in interactive media.  Mr. Schklair is currently focused on the development and production of new digital 3D motion picture technologies and the real-time broadcast of 3D programming.  He is highly esteemed by an international client list as one of the world’s leading experts in digital and live action 3D and is one of the primary catalysts behind the recent resurgence of 3D in Hollywood films.

Mr. Schklair served as 3D and Digital Image Producer on 3ality Digital’s U2 3D movie.  In addition to supervising the production, Mr. Schklair also oversaw the post-production and completion at the 3ality Digital studio in Burbank.  Other recent projects include the first live 3D broadcasts of a full NFL game delivered via satellite to theaters on both the east and west coasts, and the BCS Championship game which aired in real time in 63 theaters across 30 states.  Prior to 3ality, Mr. Schklair was a senior executive at Digital Domain, the special effects studio responsible for films such as Apollo 13, The Fifth Element, Titanic, and Terminator 2:3D, creative director for R/Greenberg Associates, and he was executive producer of The Columbus Project for computer graphics and interactive media pioneer Robert Abel.

Mr. Schklair has a number of new patents pending and is a frequent speaker on 3D and new entertainment technologies at leading international digital and entertainment technology events.  He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and is an alumnus of the USC Cinema Master’s program.