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15 Features Vying for VFX Oscar®
Beverly Hills, CA (December 11, 2009) — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films have been selected as semifinalists for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 82nd Academy Awards®.

The films are listed below in alphabetical order:

* “Angels & Demons”
* “Avatar”
* “Coraline”
* “Disney’s A Christmas Carol”
* “District 9”
* “G-Force”
* “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra”
* “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
* “Sherlock Holmes”
* “Star Trek”
* “Terminator Salvation”
* “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
* “2012”
* “Watchmen”
* “Where the Wild Things Are”

In early January, the members of the Academy’s Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee, who selected the semifinalists, will narrow the list to seven.

All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 15-minute excerpts from each of the seven shortlisted films on Thursday, January 21. Following the screenings, the members will vote to nominate three films for final Oscar consideration.

The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

For removing things from a shot like wires and specifically, tracking marks, what’s the best program?

Thanks:rolleyes:

Hi all,
I wanted to know whether there is a way to kill a specific particle using its particleId after it has been emitted in Maya 2008.
In Maya 8.5 this problem could be solved by selecting the particle and going to the component editor and turning its LifespanPP value to ‘0’..But I am curious to know how to go about this in Maya 2008.

Well, I came across this issue when i rendered few instancers,everything looked perfect but one instanced object obstructed my cam view which I wanted to remove..Any clue??

thanks in advance:)

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Just posted this 3D title sequence created by Superfad on Forget the Film, Watch the Titles. This title sequence was created for a web show called ’13’ which premiered on MySpace in October. But this title sequence was never used, because the show had to change its name (to ‘Circle of 8‘), and in the end the producers chose a much simpler title sequence.

Here’s the video and an interview with the creative director about the concept and the making of:
http://www.watchthetitles.com/articles/00160-13

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Please leave a message on the site also and let me know what you think!

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core-matte node
I couldn’t find in the nuke.

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