Autodesk and Shotgun Software Are CG Tools of Choice for All 5
Best VFX and 7 Best Picture Academy Award Nominees
The role of technology in the service of great storytelling
continues to evolve, and this year’s Academy Award nominees reflect
the impressive artistry of the global computer graphics (CG)
industry. From Best Pictures and VFX, to Best Cinematography,
Animated Features and Shorts, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) media
and entertainment software played a supporting role in the creation
of many of this year’s most acclaimed movies. The Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences also recognized Autodesk technology with
a Scientific and Technical Achievement Award (Sci-Tech Award).
“It’s an honor to contribute to such a creative community in
which the Best VFX Oscar-winning movie for 20 consecutive years has
used Autodesk software,” explains Chris Bradshaw, Autodesk senior
vice president. “We’re also so pleased the Academy recognized
Robert Bridson on our R&D team for his voxel data structures
technology.”
Best Visual Effects
In the Best Visual Effects category, all five film
nominees—“Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Dawn of the Planet
of the Apes,” “Guardians of the Galaxy," “Interstellar” and “X-Men:
Days of Future Past”—used Autodesk technology to help bring these
films to audiences worldwide. The phenomenal work contained in
these five movies was created by thousands of talented artists
working at 25 visual effects studios on four continents with work
spanning the production process from previsualization through
virtual cinematography, post-production and color grading.
This year’s nominees for Best Animated Feature show off a broad
range of animation styles from hand-drawn, to stop-motion to CG.
Autodesk software played a role in four of the five Best Animated
Feature nominees: “Big Hero 6,” “The Boxtrolls,” “How to Train Your
Dragon 2,” and “The Tale of The Princess Kaguya;” two Best Animated
Short contenders: “Feast” and “The Dam Keeper;” and seven of the
eight movies nominated for Best Picture: “American Sniper,”
“Birdman,” “Boyhood,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “The Imitation
Game,” “Selma” and “The Theory of Everything.”
Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards
The Academy hosts a special awards ceremony annually to
recognize individuals whose achievements “demonstrate a proven
record of contributing significant value to the process of making
motion pictures.” In a press release, Richard Edlund, Academy
Award-winning visual effects artist and Scientific and Technical
Awards Committee Chair said, “They [our honorees] exemplify the
phenomenal creativity of professionals in the scientific and
technical community, and the invaluable contributions they make to
what is arguably the most creative industry in the world.”
This year the Academy awarded a Technical Achievement Award to
Robert Bridson, a senior principal research scientist at Autodesk,
for his “pioneering work on voxel data structures and its
subsequent validation in fluid simulation tools [that] have had a
significant impact on the design of volumetric tools throughout the
visual effects industry. This voxel technology (aka 3D pixel) has
been used throughout the industry with Weta Digital in New Zealand
as one of the earliest adopters for “Avatar.” Autodesk scientists,
designers and technologies have been similarly recognized seven
times in past SciTech Award ceremonies.
Autodesk congratulates the following studios that used Autodesk
and/or Shotgun software to contribute movie magic to this year’s
Academy Award-nominated films: Alchemy 24, Animal Logic, The
Artery, BlueBolt, Cantina Creative, Cinesite, CoSA Visual Effects,
Digital Domain, Double Negative, DreamWorks Animation, EFILM,
Encore, Finland Finish, Framestore, Fuel VFX, Hydraulx, Industrial
Light & Magic, LAIKA, Lola Visual Effects, LOOK! Effects, Luma
Pictures, Luxx Studios, Method Studios, Modern VideoFilm, Mokko
Studio, Moving Picture Company, Prime Focus, Proof, Rhythm &
Hues, RISE VFX Studio, Rising Sun Pictures, Rodeo FX, Sony Pictures
Imageworks, Studio Ghibli, Technicolor, The Third Floor, Tonko
House, Union Visual Effects, Vision Globale, Walt Disney Animation
Studios, Weta Digital and Whiskytree.
To watch trailers and breakdown reels from many of these
nominees, please visit the Autodesk YouTube channel Academy Award
playlist.
About Autodesk
Autodesk helps people imagine, design and create a better world.
Everyone—from design professionals, engineers and architects to
digital artists, students and hobbyists—uses Autodesk software
to unlock their creativity and solve important challenges. For more
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