{"id":3937,"date":"2015-02-17T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/pressrelease\/its-academy-awards-season-great-artists-with-great-technology-are-creating-great-movies"},"modified":"2018-09-11T18:46:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T22:46:51","slug":"its-academy-awards-season-great-artists-with-great-technology-are-creating-great-movies","status":"publish","type":"pressrelease","link":"https:\/\/adsknews.autodesk.com\/en\/pressrelease\/its-academy-awards-season-great-artists-with-great-technology-are-creating-great-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Academy Awards Season – Great Artists With Great Technology Are Creating Great Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Public Company Information: NASDAQ:ADSK SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)–The role of technology in the service of great storytelling continues to evolve, and this year\u2019s 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,\u00a0Autodesk, Inc.<\/a>(NASDAQ:ADSK) media and entertainment software played a supporting role in the creation of many of this year\u2019s 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). \u201cIt\u2019s 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,\u201d explains Chris Bradshaw, Autodesk senior vice president. \u201cWe\u2019re also so pleased the Academy recognized Robert Bridson on our R&D team for his voxel data structures technology.\u201d Best Visual Effects<\/strong> In the Best Visual Effects category, all five film nominees\u2014\u201cCaptain America: The Winter Soldier,\u201d \u201cDawn of the Planet of the Apes,\u201d \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy,” \u201cInterstellar\u201d and \u201cX-Men: Days of Future Past\u201d\u2014used 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\u2019s 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: \u201cBig Hero 6,\u201d \u201cThe Boxtrolls,\u201d \u201cHow to Train Your Dragon 2,\u201d and \u201cThe Tale of The Princess Kaguya;\u201d two Best Animated Short contenders: \u201cFeast\u201d and \u201cThe Dam Keeper;\u201d and seven of the eight movies nominated for Best Picture: \u201cAmerican Sniper,\u201d \u201cBirdman,\u201d \u201cBoyhood,\u201d \u201cThe Grand Budapest Hotel,\u201d \u201cThe Imitation Game,\u201d \u201cSelma\u201d and \u201cThe Theory of Everything.\u201d Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards<\/strong><\/a> The Academy hosts a special awards ceremony annually to recognize individuals whose achievements \u201cdemonstrate a proven record of contributing significant value to the process of making motion pictures.\u201d In\u00a0a press release<\/a>, Richard Edlund, Academy Award-winning visual effects artist and Scientific and Technical Awards Committee Chair said, \u201cThey [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.\u201d This year the Academy awarded a Technical Achievement Award to Robert Bridson, a senior principal research scientist at Autodesk, for his \u201cpioneering 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 \u201cAvatar.\u201d 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\u2019s 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\u00a0Academy Award playlist<\/a>. About Autodesk<\/strong> Autodesk helps people imagine, design and create a better world. Everyone\u2014from design professionals, engineers and architects to digital artists,\u00a0students and hobbyists\u2014uses Autodesk software to unlock their creativity and solve important challenges. For more information visit\u00a0autodesk.com<\/a>\u00a0or follow @autodesk. Autodesk and Shotgun are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and\/or its subsidiaries and\/or affiliates in the USA and\/or other countries. Academy Award is a registered trademark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product and services offerings, and specifications and pricing at any time without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or graphical errors that may appear in this document. \u00a9 2015 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/em>   Contact: Autodesk, Inc. Rama Dunayevich, 415-547-2472 rama@autodesk.com<\/a> or Karen Raz, 310-450-1482 karen@razpr.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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