The pixel magicians of the visible results neighborhood gathered tonight on the Beverly Hilton Lodge because the Visible Results Society held its twenty first Annual VES Awards, the organizations yearly celebration of excellent visible results artistry and innovation in movie, animation, tv, commercials, video video games and particular venues.
Awards have been handed out in 25 classes. To nobody’s nice shock, Avatar: The Method of Water was named the photoreal characteristic winner, garnering a complete of 9 awards on the night time. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio was named prime animated movie, profitable three awards. The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Energy was named greatest photoreal episode, profitable three awards. Frito-Lay: Push It topped the industrial discipline. An particularly tasty selection.
Patton Oswalt was again, internet hosting the awards for the tenth time. We missed his snark and jovial laughter final yr as a damaged leg saved him from attending. Positive it did… Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron introduced the VES Lifetime Achievement award to acclaimed producer Gale Anne Hurd. The Society’s present and former Board Chairs introduced the VES Board of Administrators Award to former Govt Director Eric Roth; the group included Lisa Cooke, present VES Chair; Jim Morris, VES, President of Pixar Animation and founding VES Chair; and former Chairs Jeffrey A. Okun, VES; Mike Chambers, VES; Carl Rosendahl, VES; and Jeff Barnes. Award presenters included: Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Rian Johnson, Academy-Award-winning filmmaker Domee Shi; actors Tig Notaro, Jay Pharoah, Tyler Posey, Randall Park, Angela Sarafyan, Bashir Salahuddin, Josh McDermitt and Danny Pudi. Dara Treseder, Autodesk’s Chief Advertising Officer, introduced the VES-Autodesk Pupil Award.
“As we have fun the twenty first Annual VES Awards, we’re honored to maintain shining a light-weight on outstanding visible results artistry and innovation,” stated VES Chair Lisa Cooke. “In all of our colleagues honored tonight, we see greatest at school work that elevates the artwork of storytelling and exemplifies the spirit of adaptation and ingenuity — abilities which have saved audiences engaged and uplifted, now, greater than ever. The VES Awards is the one venue that showcases and honors these excellent world artists throughout a variety of disciplines, and we’re extraordinarily happy with all our winners and nominees!”
Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees. The whole record of winners is as follows:
Excellent Visible Results in a Photoreal Characteristic
Avatar: The Method of Water
- Richard Baneham
- Walter Garcia
- Joe Letteri
- Eric Saindon
- JD Schwalm
Excellent Supporting Visible Results in a Photoreal Characteristic
13 Lives
- Jason Billington
- Thomas Horton
- Denis Baudin
- Michael Harrison
- Brian Cox
Excellent Visible Results in an Animated Characteristic
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
- Aaron Weintraub
- Jeffrey Schaper
- Cameron Carson
- Emma Gorbey
Excellent Visible Results in a Photoreal Episode
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy; Udûn
- Jason Smith
- Ron Ames
- Nigel Sumner
- Tom Proctor
- Dean Clarke
Excellent Supporting Visible Results in a Photoreal Episode
5 Days at Memorial; Day Two
- Eric Durst
- Danny McNair
- Matt Whelan
- Goran Pavles
- John MacGillivray
Excellent Visible Results in a Actual-Time Venture
The Final of Us Half I
- Erick Pangilinan
- Evan Wells
- Eben Cook dinner
- Mary Jane Whiting
Excellent Visible Results in a Business
Frito-Lay; Push It
- Tom Raynor
- Sophie Harrison
- Ben Cronin
- Martino Madeddu
Excellent Visible Results in a Particular Venue Venture
ABBA Voyage
- Ben Morris
- Edward Randolph
- Stephen Aplin
- Ian Comley
Excellent Animated Character in a Photoreal Characteristic
Avatar: The Method of Water; Kiri
- Anneka Fris
- Rebecca Louise Leybourne
- Guillaume Francois
- Jung Rock Hwang
Excellent Animated Character in an Animated Characteristic
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio; Pinocchio
- Oliver Beale
- Richard Pickersgill
- Brian Leif Hansen
- Kim Slate
Excellent Animated Character in an Episode, Business or Actual-Time Venture
The Umbrella Academy; Pogo
- Aidan Martin
- Hannah Dockerty
- Olivier Beierlein
- Miae Kang
Excellent Created Surroundings in a Photoreal Characteristic
Avatar: The Method of Water; The Reef
- Jessica Cowley
- Joe W. Churchill
- Justin Stockton
- Alex Nowotny
Excellent Created Surroundings in an Animated Characteristic
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio; Within the Abdomen of a Sea Monster
- Warren Lawtey
- Anjum Sakharkar
- Javier Gonzalez Alonso
- Quinn Carvalho
Excellent Created Surroundings in an Episode, Business, or Actual-Time Venture
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy; Adar; Númenor Metropolis
- Dan Wheaton
- Nico Delbecq
- Dan Letarte
- Julien Gauthier
Excellent Digital Cinematography in a CG Venture
Avatar: The Method of Water
- Richard Baneham
- Dan Cox
- Eric Reynolds
- AJ Briones
Excellent Mannequin in a Photoreal or Animated Venture
Avatar: The Method of Water; The Sea Dragon
- Sam Sharplin
- Stephan Skorepa
- Ian Baker
- Guillaume Francois
Excellent Results Simulations in a Photoreal Characteristic
Avatar: The Method of Water; Water Simulations
- Johnathan Nixon
- David Moraton
- Nicolas James Illingworth
- David Caeiro Cebrian
Excellent Results Simulations in an Animated Characteristic
Puss in Boots: The Final Want
- Derek Cheung
- Michael Losure
- Kiem Ching Ong
- Jinguang Huang
Excellent Results Simulations in an Episode, Business, or Actual-Time Venture
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy; Udûn; Water and Magma
- Rick Hankins
- Aron Bonar
- Branko Grujcic
- Laurent Kermel
Excellent Compositing & Lighting in a Characteristic
Avatar: The Method of Water; Water Integration
- Sam Cole
- Francois Sugny
- Florian Schroeder
- Jean Matthews
Excellent Compositing & Lighting in an Episode
Love, Dying and Robots; Evening of the Mini Useless
- Tim Emeis
- José Maximiano
- Renaud Tissandié
- Nacere Guerouaf
Excellent Compositing & Lighting in a Business
Ladbrokes; Rocky
- Greg Spencer
- Theajo Dharan
- Georgina Ford
- Jonathan Westley
Excellent Particular (Sensible) Results in a Photoreal Venture
Avatar: The Method of Water; Present Machine and Wave Pool
- JD Schwalm
- Richard Schwalm
- Nick Rand
- Robert Spurlock
Excellent Visible Results in a Pupil Venture (Sponsored by AUTODESK)
A Calling. From the Desert. To the Sea
- Mario Bertsch
- Max Pollmann
- Lukas Löffler
- Until Sander-Titgemeyer
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AWARD
Avatar: The Method of Water; Water Toolset
- Alexey Stomakhin
- Steve Lesser
- Sven Joel Wretborn
- Douglas McHale
The Visible Results Society is an expert world honorary society devoted to advancing the humanities, sciences and purposes of visible results and to upholding the very best requirements and procedures for the visible results occupation. It’s the leisure business’s solely official group representing the prolonged world neighborhood of visible results practitioners, together with supervisors, artists, producers, expertise builders, educators and studio executives. VES’ greater than 4,500 members in 45 nations worldwide contribute to all areas of leisure – movie, tv, commercials, animation, music movies, video games and new media.
Supply: Visible Results Society
Dan Sarto is Writer and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Community.
