In the awards season leading up to Hollywood's crown achievement - the Academy Awards - the filmmaking industry celebrates those who toil tirelessly behind the scenes. At last night's Visual Effects Society Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, one of the presenters quoted Arthur C. Clarke, summarizing the entire evening: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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Hollywood's technology brain trust gathered on Saturday night to honor its brethren at the annual AMPAS Scientific and Technical Awards presentation. Developers of 15 technologies were feted at the swanky soireee, held at the Beverly Wilshire. The awards had a definite digital leaning, with the first recognition of DI scanning, color grading, color management and projection technologies along with computer-based lighting and performance capture techologies. The Sci-Tech committee's...
Today earthlings got their first look at Mothership, a new creative studio that launched here in LA. A sister company to Digital Domain, Mothership develops original transmedia content for ad agencies and brands. A series of launch films showcasing the talents of its international creative roster of director-designers drew 30,000 viewers in just two hours, fueling excitement in the new transmedia vessel. Folks at motionographer, Creativity and SHOOT -- not to mention the twitterverse --...
