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Academy announces technical achievement awards recipients

Looks like dinasaurus at the Academy can`t see the forest for the trees. What's the big deal about f-ing photocopiers? Sorry, I meant film scanners... :rolleyes:
 
Pawel Achtel said:
Looks like dinasaurus at the Academy can`t see the forest for the trees. What's the big deal about f-ing photocopiers? Sorry, I meant film scanners... :rolleyes:
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If they hadn't given technical Oscars before for film scanners, recorders and software-based color-correctors, all part of the D.I. system we are using today, then it's about time.

It's a little like the Nobels for science, they don't have to be for work created just the year before, they can acknowledge work that is years or decades old if it made a significant contribution.

Congrats to the recipients!
 
They usually hand out these things in reflection of their impact on the industry. Case in point:

TrueLight: 1990s?
Ambient Occlusion. First film with significant use: Pearl Harbor.
LMocap: First film with significant use: 2nd Pirates of the Caribbean.
Photon Mapping: first use in film I think in the late 90s or earlier.
Spirit 2k/4k: First use 90s?
LightStage: early 2000s? First extensive use in Matrix Reloaded.

Red needs to wait until about 2018 by the standards of the current rate of recognition. Although even then they might not win anything because while they put together a lot of good ideas and released it a good price point... they didn't really make the huge scientific breakthroughs. There were already RAW cameras. There were already 4k Cameras. There were already cameras shooting to wavelet compressed RAW. The great thing about RED was it was easier to shoot and less expensive. But that's a business award not a scientific one necessarily.
 
Gavin Greenwalt said:
They usually hand out these things in reflection of their impact on the industry. Case in point:

TrueLight: 1990s?
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FilmLight was founded in 2002 - the first release of Truelight came a few months after that at a few places in London. However, it was built upon internal R&D work into 3D LUTs done in the years before that at CFC. So maybe the very end of the 1990s :-).

-Martin
 
David Mullen ASC said:
It's a little like the Nobels for science, they don't have to be for work created just the year before, they can acknowledge work that is years or decades old if it made a significant contribution.
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Thanks David. Fair enough. I thought it was for the past year considering thet the award is given annually and there are strict rules for submissions in respect to the time. My bad.

So, we can expect RED Team to get awards in, what, a decade or two? :sarcasm:

I think Graeme, Jim and others behind the Red RAW, Sensor development and Red One won't be able to weasel out of it. Maybe next year.
 
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