Tue 17th Feb 2015, by Mike Hepburn | Eventcoverage
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Our friends at Autodesk and Shotgun Software are understandably proud of their formidable presence at the upcoming Oscars. Not only did they play a supporting role in the creation of all five Best Visual Effects and seven Best Picture Academy Award nominees. The Academy also recognized Autodesk’s Robert Bridson with a Sci-Tech Award for his pioneering work on voxel data structures technology.
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 sophisticated 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.”
Movies would be pretty bland without this kind of technology in the hands of amazing artists!
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