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Scott Baltjes was raised on a couple of small cattle farms in the rural townships of West Lincoln and Wainfleet, Southern Ontario, Canada. It was a world of horse-drawn haywagons, barn building bees and outhouses. His early addiction to Saturday morning cartoons and newspaper comics led him to create his own comic strip - published as "Trillium", his first work was about growing up "on the farm". |
| Despite his father's objections, Scott later decided to pursue a career in cartoons. He attended the Visual Art program at Niagara College followed by the Classical and Computer Animation programs at Sheridan College. Scott's first employment contract was worth enough to make ol' Dad eat his words - he now proudly shows off his son's photo at the construction sites where he works. |
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From 1995 to 2006 Scott was working in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on award winning and cutting edge animated projects. Mainframe Entertainment's "Reboot" was the first fully computer animated series - Scott was one of the original animators and makes a guest appearance as a binome character wearing an "Angus" hat in the episode called "Painted Windows". Many of the characters' transformation sequences in the popular "Transformers: Beast Wars" and it's sequel "Transformers: Beast Machines" are his creation. "War Planets:Shadow Raiders", "Action Man", "Heavy Gear", "Max Steel" are among his many prestigious credits. In "Spider-Man", the animated series, Scott pops up again as a background character wearing his signature "Angus" farm hat and orange company jacket. |
| Presently, Scott is employed by Halifax Films Inc. in Halifax, Nova Scotia working on "Bo on the Go" and "Animal Mechanicals". When he is not working he is out photographing old buildings and historic sites and posting the pictures on Flickr. |
 
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Long time member of Scouts Canada, Scott enjoys hiking in the mountains or kayaking/canoeing the local waterways to photograph wildlife and landscapes. The PHOTO gallery includes Scott's photos from Vancouver, around British Columbia, Southern Ontario, and other places he has travelled around the world - but his favourite subjects are still the odd old barns he finds on his travels back to Ontario or Manitoba. On the "Rainy West Coast" days, he enjoys sitting at his easel, drawing and painting or working on comics. The ART gallery shows a sample collection of his fine art. |
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| Look forward to seeing more work from Scott's limitless imagination with his own animated shorts "Post_Historic" - an post-apocalyptic adventure about a little girl in a city full of mechanical creatures, and "Alabaster the Unfriendly Ghost" - a hilarious comedy about an inept poltergeist, and "Trillium" - a collection of comic strips in print. Read some of the ghost stories, folk tales and historical tidbits that influenced his creativity in his upcoming book titled "Haunted Niagara". Browse through the galleries of Scott's ART and PHOTOS and be amazed! |
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Scott's Quotes:
"I think, therefore I animate!" (1990)
"In animation reality does not look real!" (1994)
"If it's not animated it's dead!" (1999)
"Why think inside or outside the box when you can burn the box!" (2001)
"I've built cities and destroyed worlds!!!" (2005)
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SCOTT IN THE NEWS:
July 9th, 1991 - Welland Tribune
December 1994 - In Port News
July 27th, 1996 - Welland Tribune
August 9th, 1997 - St Catharines Standard
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