9 wins at the Visual Effects Society Awards
The Wētā FX team has just got up from the tables at the Visual Effects Society awards after what was a successful affair for the nominees and we are grateful to announce the following category winners:
OUTSTANDING VISUAL EFFECTS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER - WINNER!
Richard Baneham, Walter Garcia, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, JD Schwalm
OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER; Kiri - WINNER
Anneka Fris, Rebecca Louise Leybourne, Guillaume Francois, Jung-Rock Hwang
OUTSTANDING ANIMATED CHARACTER IN AN EPISODE, COMMERCIAL OR REAL-TIME PROJECT
THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY; Pogo - WINNER
Aidan Martin, Hannah Dockerty, Olivier Beierlein, Miae Kang
OUTSTANDING CREATED ENVIRONMENT IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER; The Reef - WINNER
Jessica Cowley, Joe W. Churchill, Justin Stockton, Alex Nowotny
OUTSTANDING VIRTUAL CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A CG PROJECT
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER - WINNER
Richard Baneham, Dan Cox, Eric Reynolds, A.J Briones
OUTSTANDING MODEL IN A PHOTOREAL OR ANIMATED PROJECT
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER; The Sea Dragon - WINNER
Sam Sharplin, Stephan Skorepa, Ian Baker, Guillaume Francois
OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN A PHOTOREAL FEATURE
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER; Water Simulations - WINNER
Johnathan M. Nixon, David Moraton, Nicolas Illingworth, David Caeiro Cebrian
OUTSTANDING COMPOSITING & LIGHTING IN A FEATURE
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER; Water Integration - WINNER
Sam Cole, Francois Sugny, Florian Schroeder, Jean Matthews
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AWARD
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER; Water Toolset - WINNER
Alexey Dmitrievich Stomakhin, Steve Lesser, Sven Joel Wretborn, Douglas McHale
Check out all the winners on the Visual Effects Society website
