{"id":5966,"date":"2020-02-05T15:46:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/?post_type=news&p=5966"},"modified":"2020-02-05T15:46:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:46:15","slug":"2020-academy-award-nominees","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/en\/news\/2020-academy-award-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Studios Power Top Academy Awards Film Contenders with Autodesk Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

Award season has arrived, and once again the year\u2019s best movies are being recognized at the Oscars, BAFTAs, Golden Globes, Annies, and Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards.

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\u201cThe Beauty\u201d winner of this year\u2019s VES Student Award. Image courtesy of Pascal Schelbli and Filmakademie Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg<\/p><\/div> Whether they feature galactic space adventures and heroic battles, or photoreal wildlife and African savannahs, Autodesk products have helped teams across the globe collaborate and create standout visuals for the top visual effects (VFX) and animated films. In fact, this is the 25th<\/sup> consecutive year that our Media & Entertainment tools have played a leading role in the Academy Award-nominated films in the VFX and animation categories. The fabulous facilities behind the work being recognized this year include: Animal Logic, Cinesite, Company 3, Digital Domain, DreamWorks Animation, Framestore, ILM, LAIKA, Method Studios, MPC, Sony Pictures Imageworks, SPA Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Weta Digital and more. <\/p>\n

Learn more<\/a> about the Autodesk tools used by the world\u2019s leading visual effects and animation studios<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They used Autodesk tools like Maya, Arnold, Shotgun and Flame on all five Academy Award nominees in the VFX category \u201c1917,\u201d \u201cAvengers: Endgame,\u201d \u201cThe Irishman,\u201d \u201cThe Lion King\u201d and \u201cStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.\u201d The same can be said for many of the nominees in the Animation category, including \u201cHow to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,\u201d \u201cKlaus,\u201d \u201cMissing Link\u201d and \u201cToy Story 4.\u201d <\/p>\n

Peaking Behind the Curtain<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When you\u2019re lucky enough to support the amazing artists that keep our eyes glued to the silver screen, you also get to appreciate the amazing stories behind how the year\u2019s most acclaimed movies were created. One of my favorites is the story of LAIKA\u2019s work on \u201cMissing Link.\u201d

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Image from \u201cMissing Link,\u201d courtesy of LAIKA<\/p><\/div> The craft and precision involved in making \u201cMissing Link\u201d is remarkable\u2014the team at LAIKA pioneered a unique CGI-to-3D printing workflow to bring its signature handcrafted stop-motion look to the screen. Brian McLean, director of Rapid Prototyping at LAIKA helped us understand just how impressive this undertaking this was: \u201cFor \u2018Missing Link,\u2019 characters\u2019 facial performances were rigged and animated in Maya, and each facial expression was exported as an OBJ, voxelized, sliced for print using Cuttlefish from Fraunhofer IGD to ensure color accuracy and detail, and then sent to a Stratasys color 3D printer. Over 106,000 unique faces were printed for the production of the film. Sometimes 24 unique faces were needed for one second of film\u2014Lionel alone had more than 39,000 and Link had 27,000.\u201d All of these assets had to be meticulously managed and tracked. \u201cAll shot assignments, schedules, plate information, and reference materials were published to and organized using Shotgun Software, which we\u2019ve used at LAIKA on all of our productions since \u2018ParaNorman,\u2019\u201d added Steve Emerson, visual effects supervisor at LAIKA. Their groundbreaking workflow definitely paid off, and I\u2019m not alone in appreciating their work\u2014the movie has already clinched a Best Animated Feature win at the Golden Globes, and Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature, and Outstanding Character in an Animated Feature at the VES Awards. Of course, this is just one example of how our customers are pushing boundaries and doing amazing work with Autodesk tools. Congratulations to everyone who made such remarkable contributions to the best films of the last year. We can\u2019t wait to be captivated and awed by your work again in 2020!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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