Spencer is currently Animation Director at DNEG.

With a career spanning more than 30 years, covering stop-motion animation to today's cutting edge digital animation on some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, Spencer has animated and supervised a wide range of characters from the Pillsbury Doughboy and Pee Wee's Playhouse to Spider-Man and Godzilla.

As a monster movie fan, Spencer's most recent credit as Senior Animation Supervisor on GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019) at MPC is a career high point.

As Animation Supervisor at Framestore, Spencer supervised character animation for the Facehugger and Chestburster sequences for Ridley Scott's ALIEN: COVENANT (2017) and co-supervised the castle staff sequences for Disney's live action remake of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017).

At Tippett Studios, Spencer worked with legendary stop-motion animator and vfx supervisor Phil Tippett on Phil's stop motion project MAD GOD while also animating shots for GODS OF EGYPT (2016).

Spencer was a key member of the Sony Pictures Imageworks character animation department for 14 years in Los Angeles. As an Animation Director/Supervisor and Lead Animator, he was involved in many high profile features including the Sam Raimi SPIDER-MAN trilogy, THE MATRIX RELOADED and REVOLUTIONS, MEN IN BLACK 3 and SMURFS 2. His work on Spider-Man 3 was nominated for a BAFTA Award, a SATURN Award and two VES Awards.

Spencer studied film, video and fine arts at The School Of Visual Arts in New York City where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.