The role of technology for great storytelling continues to evolve, and this year’s Academy Award winners and nominees reflect the impressive artistry of the global computer graphics (CG) industry.
From Best Pictures and Visual Effects to Best Cinematography, Animated Features and Shorts, Autodesk’s media and entertainment software such as Maya, Shotgun, Softimage, 3ds Max, Flame played a supporting role in the creation of many of the year’s most acclaimed movies.
Autodesk tools were used on four out of five Best Animated Feature films. Big Hero 6, the winner in this category showed off a broad range of animation styles from hand-drawn, to stop-motion to CG.
Big Hero 6 was four times more complex than Frozen in the scale of its animation and had the need for more sophisticated tools.
Using Autodesk’s 3D animation tool, Maya, 90 animators worked with 200 controls to create individual poses and completed about three to four seconds of footage a week.
Aside from this, the 2015 Oscar for Best Visual Effects winner, Interstellar, and the other four film nominees namely Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Guardians of the Galaxy, and X-Men: Days of Future Past used Autodesk sophisticated technology and tools 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 pre-visualisation through virtual cinematography, post-production and colour grading.
This year, the Academy also recognised Autodesk's principal research scientist Robert Bridson, with a Scientific and Technical Achievement Award (Sci-Tech Award), for his pioneering work on voxel data structures technology. Autodesk scientists, designers and technologies have been similarly recognised seven times in this category.
This recognition underlines Autodesk role behind the richest and most realistic visuals consumed by billions today in the form of movies, games, advertisements and other visual mass media.
Autodesk’s technology has helped artists from around the world to create imagery for films as varied as Hollywood blockbusters, animated short films and title sequences.
From Best Pictures and Visual Effects to Best Cinematography, Animated Features and Shorts, Autodesk’s media and entertainment software such as Maya, Shotgun, Softimage, 3ds Max, Flame played a supporting role in the creation of many of the year’s most acclaimed movies.
Autodesk tools were used on four out of five Best Animated Feature films. Big Hero 6, the winner in this category showed off a broad range of animation styles from hand-drawn, to stop-motion to CG.
Big Hero 6 was four times more complex than Frozen in the scale of its animation and had the need for more sophisticated tools.
Using Autodesk’s 3D animation tool, Maya, 90 animators worked with 200 controls to create individual poses and completed about three to four seconds of footage a week.
Big Hero 6 is notably the first feature to utilise Hyperion, new state-of-the-art rendering software created by Walt Disney Animation Studios' technology team, in collaboration with production artists.
OTHERWORLDLY EFFECTS: Autodesk tools were also used on the Guardians of The Galaxy movie. — AFP
Aside from this, the 2015 Oscar for Best Visual Effects winner, Interstellar, and the other four film nominees namely Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Guardians of the Galaxy, and X-Men: Days of Future Past used Autodesk sophisticated technology and tools 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 pre-visualisation through virtual cinematography, post-production and colour grading.
This year, the Academy also recognised Autodesk's principal research scientist Robert Bridson, with a Scientific and Technical Achievement Award (Sci-Tech Award), for his pioneering work on voxel data structures technology. Autodesk scientists, designers and technologies have been similarly recognised seven times in this category.
This recognition underlines Autodesk role behind the richest and most realistic visuals consumed by billions today in the form of movies, games, advertisements and other visual mass media.
Autodesk’s technology has helped artists from around the world to create imagery for films as varied as Hollywood blockbusters, animated short films and title sequences.
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