The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected 11 candidates for its scientific and technical achievements honors.
The selected achievements are:
‘ Enabling Technologies for Digital Intermediate (credit to be determined)
‘ The Development of Fujicolor ETERNA-RDI Digital Intermediate Film (Fujifilm USA)
‘ Relighting for Virtual Characters (USC ICT)
‘ Imocap (Lucasfilm Entertainment)
‘ Ambient Occlusion (Double Negative VFX)
‘ Point-Based Color Bleeding (Pixar Animation Studios)
‘ OBAQ/DOALL (Industrial Light & Magic)
‘ Film Master (Digital Vision Ltd.)
‘ System 5 (Euphonix, Inc.)
‘ Rigtight (1stCall Studio Equipment)
‘ Heden Lens Motors with Two-Stage Friction Drive Planetary Torque Amplifier (Heden Engineering AB)
The list of contenders was revealed to allow companies or people with similar technologies to submit their material for review. Such submissions are due Sept. 15.
The candidates will be reviewed by the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee, which will meet in early December to vote on which technologies to recommend to the Academy’s Board of Governors. The board will decide the recipients of the awards, which will be presented Feb. 20 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.
