All Academy Award winners
Laboratory
The \"Lowry Process\" uses advanced GPU-accelerated, motion estimation-based image processing tools to enhance image quality.
Film
Specifically designed for laser film recording and widely used in the industry today, the high-resolution FUJIFILM ETERNA-RDS 4791 film stock is an important step in protecting the heritage of the motion picture industry.
Digital Imaging Technology
This work allowed, for the first time, unified and efficient rendering of volumetric effects such as smoke and clouds, together with other computer graphics objects, in a micro-polygon imaging pipeline.
King George VI
Dicky Eklund
Nina Sayers/The Swan Queen
Alice Ward
Denmark
We Belong Together
Digital Imaging Technology
Dr. Sagar's work led to a method for transforming facial motion capture data into an expression-based, editable character animation system that has been used in motion pictures with a high volume of digital characters.
Stage Operations
The NAC System allows full-size cars, aircraft and other heavy props to be flown on wires with unprecedented freedom of motion and a high degree of safety, on-set and in real time. The intuitive control system responds to the motion of the operator's hand, permitting the recording and playback of all axes of motion simultaneously, which may be edited and refined for playback in subsequent takes.
Camera Cranes
The evolution of the Cablecam technology has made it possible to move a camera safely and accurately anywhere through a three-dimensional space.
Camera Cranes
The evolution of the Spydercam technology has made it possible to move a camera safely and accurately anywhere through a three-dimensional space.
Digital Imaging Technology
Mr. Ercolano's work has been influential across the industry, and has enabled scalable render farms at numerous studios.
Digital Imaging Technology
This system was the first robust, scalable, widely adopted commercial solution for queue management in the motion picture industry. Its user interface and support for multi-machine assignment influenced the design of modern day queue management tools.
Digital Imaging Technology
Queue was one of the first systems that allowed for statistical analysis and process introspection, providing a framework for the efficient use of render farms.
Digital Imaging Technology
ObaQ has scaled from managing a few hundred processors in 1997 to many thousands today, with minimal changes to the original design.
Digital Imaging Technology
This important step in the evolution of global illumination techniques, first used on the motion picture \"Shrek 2,\" was shared with the industry in their technical paper \"An Approximate Global Illumination System for Computer Generated Films.\"
Systems
Easy to use, cineSync has become a widely accepted solution for remote production collaboration.
Film
The Fujicolor ETERNA-RDI Type 8511/4511 digital intermediate film has thinner emulsion layers with extremely efficient couplers made possible by Super-Nano Cubic Grain Technology. This invention allows improved color sensitivity with the ability to absorb scattered light, providing extremely sharp images. The ETERNA-RDI emulsion technology also achieves less color cross-talk for exacting reproduction. Its expanded latitude and linearity provides superior highlights and shadows in a film stock with exceptional latent image stability.
Digital Imaging Technology
The combination of these systems, with their ability to capture high fidelity reflectance data of human subjects, allows for the creation of photorealistic digital faces as they would appear in any lighting condition.
Laboratory
Through the use of color management software and hardware, this complete system enables accurate color presentation in the digital intermediate preview process. The Truelight system is widely utilized in digital intermediate production environments around the world.
Laboratory
The LUTher system was one of the first color look-up table processors to be widely adopted by the pioneering digital intermediate facilities in the industry. This innovation enabled accurate color presentation by facilities that had analyzed projected film output and built 3D look-up tables in order to emulate print film.
Digital Imaging Technology
Developed at Industrial Light & Magic and consisting of custom hardware and software, Imocap is an innovative system that successfully addresses the need for on-set, low-impact performance capture.
Digital Imaging Technology
Ambient occlusion has enabled a new level of realism in synthesized imagery and has become a standard tool for computer graphics lighting in motion pictures.
Photography
Solving a series of problems with one integrated mechanism, this device had an immediate and significant impact on the motion picture industry.