Vancouver-based Atmosphere Visual Effects won the Best Visual Effects Gemini Award in the Drama, Variety and Comedy competition for its work on ‘No Man’s Land,’ the season three premiere episode of SCI FI Channel’s Stargate Atlantis. The honor will be presented at the 22nd annual Gemini Awards gala on Oct. 28 in Regina, Saskatchewan.
The ‘No Man’s Land’ episode centers on the dramatic efforts of the Atlantis team to prevent the deadly and insatiable Wraiths from reaching Earth and turning the planet into a fresh feeding ground for the life-force sucking, alien super predators.
‘We are honored to have received this award and grateful for the challenge given to us to help make Stargate Atlantis a beautifully imagined and produced television series,’ says Atmosphere co-founder Jeremy Hoey. ‘It caps off a very exciting, demanding and rewarding year for us here at Atmosphere.’
Atmosphere also won this year’s Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series and the VES Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Series, both for the season three episode ‘Exodus, Part 2’ of SCI FI Channel’s Battlestar Galactica, an NBC Universal show.
Mark Savela is credited as vfx supervisor and Shannon Gurney was vfx coordinator on the show. Other Atmosphere team members include digital supervisor Andrew Karr, lead compositor Brenda Campbell and lead animator Alec McClymont. For vfx house Rainmaker, the winning crew includes 3D animator Tom Brydon, vfx supervisor/lead compositor Deborah Dunphy and compositor Todd Liddiard.
Principal players at Atmosphere are CG department head Andrew Karr, compositing department head Tom Archer and matte painting lead/in-house vfx producer Jeremy Hoey. In addition to Battlestar Galactica and Stargate Atlantis, the studio has worked on USA Network’s The 4400, SCI FI Channel’s Andromeda, Disney’s Air Buddies, New Lin Cinema’s Wrong Turn II and Hallmark’s Last Days of Planet Earth, among productions. For more information, go to http://atmosphere-vfx.com.
