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21.06.10

MATIvision©™ capture of MUSEXPO Europe artist showcases was completed.

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. used its MATIvision©™ technology to capture the live performances of eight emerging Bands showcased at MUSEXPO Europe in London June 14 – 15 June, 2010. The electrifying live performances from all eight bands in the legendary Borderline club will soon be available for the artists and their management to check-out. Pending approval from artists and management, the result of this groundbreaking action will be the very first ever fully interactive on-line artist showcase catalogue. It will be a great marketing and promotion tool for the artists and their managers, enabling them to immediate communicate their live performances with the most simple and interactive way.

All attendees were impressed by the totally unobtrusive way in which the MATIvision©™ System captured the artists' performances and were intrigued by their introduction to the totally new entertainment format.

MATIvision©™ has the potential to radically change the way we all experience live music performances.

MUSEXPO has always been on the cutting-edge of future music and now, with the help of MATIvision©™, demonstrates to the music industry what the future of live music will look like.

08.06.10

MUSEXPO Europe will be the world’s first event ever to produce a fully interactive, on-line artist showcase catalogue with MATIvision©™!

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. will be used its MATIvision©™ technology to capture the incredible emerging artists for the world to see their special performance at MUSEXPO Europe in London June 14 – 15, 2010. MATIvision©™, the only Multi-camera Spherical Video Technology will offer MUSEXPO Europe and its showcasing artists a rare opportunity, which includes fully interactive videos of each artist’s full performance.

These fully interactive videos will be hosted at www.mativision.com and will be open to interested industry, potential venue bookers or fans to view the performances interactively, with an experience as close to actually being in the venue as possible. Viewers, using just their mouse, will be able to move between several camera positions, rotate their view in a full 360-degree view-field and zoom-in on the action. The best way for the emerging artists to showcase their live performance to all the key people any time they want.

Sat Bisla, Founder/President A&R Worldwide & MUSEXPO added, “We’re honored to give the artists, fans and industry the full musical experience unlike any other event before. MATIvision©™ is an incredible technology that is the future of live interactive fan engagement with some of their favorite artists. MUSEXPO has always been on the cutting-edge of the future of music – we’re delighted to work with MATIvision©™ on a world’s first at this year’s MUSEXPO Europe.”

Antonis Karydis, Founder, MATIvision©™ and president of ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A., tells A&R Worldwide, “MATIvision©™ radically changes the way we all experience live and recorded music events by turning passive viewers into active video directors."

14.05.10

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. with MATIvision©™ in MUSEXPO 2010 Europe: Catch a glimpse of the future of Music Video

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. with MATIvision©™ will be an official conference sponsor of MUSEXPO 2010 Europe, one of most important annual international music and media conferences taking place in the heart of London, at The Cumberland Hotel June 14-15, 2010. (http://www.musexpo.net/musexpoEU10/index.html).

MATIvision©™, the only Multi-camera Spherical Video Technology offering both On-Demand and Live Streaming through the internet, has been successfully used to capture Festivals, Concerts, and other live Performances across Europe.

With MATIvision©™, fans can experience their favorite music video with the most interactive way ever offered, just by putting their mouse over the spherical video and having the total control of it. They can look wherever they like, whenever they like, they can zoom in/out, even switch between cameras and live a completely interactive music video experience.

Attendees of MUSEXPO 2010 Europe will have the chance to experience in the most interactive way several MATIvision©™ contents and detect a new era in entertainment.

Demos are scheduled in the MATIvision©™ stand during the full duration of the MUSEXPO 2010 Europe Conference. For demo arrangements please contact: admin@mativision.com.

29.04.10

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. with MATIvision©™ participated at MUSEXPO LA 2010

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. with its MATIvision©™ technology was an official conference sponsor of MUSEXPO 2010 LA, one of most important annual international music and media conferences, which took place at the London West Hollywood between the 25th and the 28th April. (http://www.musexpo.net/musexpoLA10/index.html).

MATIvision©™, the innovative Spherical Video Technology used recently to make the first interactive 360º full spherical music video for the well-known Australian band Pendulum (Warner Music) (http://www.pendulum.com/360), was showcased during MUSEXPO LA and caught everybody’s attention by beguiling all the high profile attendees from both music and television industries.

MATIvision©™, the only Multi-camera Spherical Video Technology (www.mativision.com) offering both On-Demand and Live Streaming through the internet, has been successfully used to capture Festivals, Concerts, and other live Performances across Europe. The MATIvision©™ stand proved a popular spot in MUSEXPO LA and several attendees experienced for themselves the interactive MATIvision©™ projects showcased during the full duration of the Conference.

If you missed MUSEXPO 2010 LA, don’t despair: MUSEXPO 2010 Europe is on its way and MATIvision©™ will again be an official conference sponsor. MUSEXPO 2010 Europe, will take place in the heart of London, at The Cumberland Hotel June 14-15, 2010. (http://www.musexpo.net/musexpoEU10/index.html).

01.04.10

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A.: The first 360º fully interactive music video clip with a story line

In March, Metropolis Studios teamed up with ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. and its innovative Spherical Video Technology of MATIvision©™, to produce the first 360º fully interactive music video clip with a story line in history for the well-known Australian band Pendulum (Warner Music). This is the future of the music video clip!

The eye-catching interactive video produced especially for the song ‘SALT IN THE WOUNDS' was first launched in the official Pendulum site (http://www.pendulum.com/360) in April and in a few days attracted thousands of fans!

The innovative feature of this interactive music video is that viewers can move their mouse over the image to watch the storyline unfolding everywhere around them while at the same time they are given the chance to search the full 360º view-field for hidden letters and crack the code to download the track for free! Fans response was remarkable, resulting in the highest recent view-rate in the site and over flooded the 8 available pages with favorable comments. ‘SALT IN THE WOUNDS' was filmed on the outskirts of Moscow, edited in London and post-produced in Athens.

The first interactive 360º full spherical music video of ‘SALT IN THE WOUNDS' was also showcased during MUSEXPO 2010 LA last April where the ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. was an official conference sponsor and caught everybody’s attention giving a glimpse of what music videos will soon look like.

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. will be an official conference sponsor of MUSEXPO 2010 Europe, taking place in the heart of London, at The Cumberland Hotel June 14-15, 2010. MATIvision©™ demonstrations will be available during the full duration of the Conference. For prior demo arrangements please contact admin@mativision.com.

Watch the breathtaking TEASER of the Pendulum interactive music video here.

22.06.09

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. will participate at MUSEXPO EUROPE 2009

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. will participate at MUSEXPO EUROPE 2009, in London, from the 29th of June until the 1st of July 2009. MUSEXPO EUROPE 2009 is the most important and inspiring music, media and technology conference in the world, in which participate some of the most senior executives from the worlds of record labels, music publishing, media, technology and live.

There, at the 30rd of June will take place a special presentation of the innovate technology ΜΑTIVISION - Multi-viewpoint Interactive Spherical Video Technology (MATI-SVT™).

The revolutionary MATIvision technology captures events in spherical video format (360°x360° angle of view), from different positions in the event venue and allows their interactive play-back on a computer or through the internet from two different types of players.

REAL LIFE GUITAR HERO CHECKS-OUT INTERACTIVE SPHERICAL VIDEO TECHNOLOGY

On the 20th of January, as the third day at MIDEM was coming to its end, our team was pleasantly surprised to see none less than monumental Guitarist Steve Vai himself accompanied by Dean Schachtel, GM of Favored Nations Entertainment stopping at our Stand and spending a considerable time for an in-depth assessment of our MATIvision Interactive Spherical Video Technology.

Our revolutionary MATIvision technology captures events in spherical video format (360οx360ο angle of view), from different positions in the event venue and allows their interactive play-back on a computer or through the internet. For the first time, the viewer, during play-back, may interactively alter the position from which the event is viewed and at the same time has the freedom to alter the direction and field of view (from the full 360οx360ο view field), rotate (look around), approach (zoom-in) and retreat (zoom-out).

Being ourselves long-time fans of Steve Vai, we felt truly honoured by his presence at our Stand. We felt proud when both himself and Mr Schachtel expressed their excitement with what they saw and declared that they both found our technology very interesting and worth considering in their future plans.

We now look forward to the day that we will have the opportunity to use our revolutionary technology to enable the many-thousands of fans of Steve Vai to experience the great performances of this distinguished artist in a completely new and interactive way.


ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. WILL PARTICIPATE AT THE MIDEM EXCIBITION

ANALYSIS Systems Research High Tech S.A. invites you to our stand at Midem at Cannes 18th – 21st January 2009, where our revolutionary MATIvision Interactive Spherical Video Technology (Patents Pending) will be presented for the first time world-wide. MIDEM is the world’s music market, where nearly 9,000 international music (labels, publishers, artist managers and many more), digital and mobile professionals gather to do business.

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. INVITES YOU AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE

ANALYSIS Systems Research High Tech S.A. would like to invite you to the Press Conference on Sunday the 30th of November at 14:00 in Cinema “DANAOS” (Kifissias and Panormou Str.)

The Press Conference is regarding the circulation of the double DVD Schoolwave 2008 on Saturday, the 6th of December with Schooligans Magazine and the Newspaper “TA NEA – Sabbatokyriako”. After the Press Conference will be showed a 45’min. "Schoolwave 2008" documentary and will also be presented the DVD “Schoolwave 2008 Interactive”. This DVD has interactive spherical videos technology with which we can watch the whole event as we were really there and interactively control our viewing experience by choosing our own viewpoint, looking around, zoom in and zoom out as we like, all in a complete 360x360 degree sphere.

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THE VIDEO RECORDING IN SCHOOLWAVE FESTIVAL 2008

ANALYSIS Systems Research High Tech S.A., sponsor of the event, successfully completed the video capturing of the SCHOOLWAVE FESTIVAL 2008 event in the Vrachon Theatre in Vyrona with the revolutionary technology MATIvision™.

In the SCHOOLWAVE FESTIVAL 2008 participated 30 music bands, with many guests, among them was Alkinoos Ioannidis. The music bands' show is captured by the special spherical (360x360 degrees) cameras, by offering a unique possibility of interactive spherical videos.

In the event ANALYSIS Systems Research High Tech S.A. share to the public the limited edition T-shirt MATIvision™.

THE LATEST AUTODESK SYSTEMS INSTALLATIONS IN GREECE FROM ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A.

ANALYSIS Systems Research High Tech S.A. has completed dozens of installations of Autodesk Systems in the past months. Autodesk Systems of Autodesk company are the ideal solutions for Advanced Post Production for Video and Film. These installations were of Autodesk Flint 2009, as well as Autodesk Flame 2009 and Autodesk Inferno 2009 systems.

The new configurations and toolset of the new Autodesk Flint 2009, Autodesk Flame 2009 and Autodesk Inferno 2009, offer according to the general customer consensus, the best performance and toolset ever.

ANALYSIS Systems Research High Tech S.A. resells Autodesk Systems the last 13 years and has installed and maintained numerous Systems in the best Post Productions companies in Greek market whose majority has more than one system.

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH TECH S.A. COMPLETED A DIGITIZATION PROJECT FOR CULTURAL FOUNDATION OF TINOS

ANALYSIS Systems Research High Tech S.A. completed recently a project which included the “Supply and installation of software and hardware for digital asset management content” and the “Digitization of cultural content and collections” for the Cultural Foundation of Tinos and was a part of a general project “Enhancement of Cultural Foundation of Tinos for the collection, digitization and documentation of cultural content and tourist product of Cultural Foundation of Tinos”

ANALYSIS Systems Research High Tech S.A. has undertaken the digitization and the file organisation of Cultural Foundation of Tinos content. This content concerns hundreds of sculpture works made by marble and wood, paintings, gravures, photos etc.

ANALYSIS Systems Research High Tech S.A. digitized, post processed and file organized the total number of the selected art works in a way where the Cultural Foundation of Tinos could acquire their digital now content fully organised and ready for easy search and retrieval and capable for promotion and further exploitation.

The Cultural Foundation of Tinos with the use of the software and hardware which were supplied by ANALYSIS Systems Research High Tech S.A., can easily handle the digitised and organised content in order to use it as tourist and cultural product.

For the same project ANALYSIS Systems Research High Tech S.A. digitized 3 preselected places (Cultural Foundation of Tinos, The Church of Virgin, The monastery of Kechrovouniou) with an advanced spherical (360°x360°) capture technology. The panoramic capture of every of the above place included numerous panoramic photos from different internal and external spots of the place.

After of a certain process, these panoramic captures were further used as interactive panoramic captures with which ANALYSIS Systems Research High Tech S.A. produced a fully interactive digital application (Virtual Tour) offering multiple-features navigation in the 3 above places.

This interactive virtual tour offers an interactive navigation where the spectator can navigate and see wherever he likes like being in the actual place and at the same time he can get information for every place or spot he selects to see. While he navigates in the different places he can choose one of the art works he sees (e.g. a religious illustration in the Church of Virgin) and views it in a larger resolution followed by its own information.

Finally the digitized and fully organised art works, the spherical captures and the Interactive virtual Tour have been processed properly by ANALYSIS Systems Research High Tech S.A. for further display and exploitation through internet.

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF FINANCE PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTS THREE IMPORTANT PROJECTS

ANALYSIS Systems Research High-Tech S.A. (ASR) within the framework of action "Funding of private-sector companies for the development of broadband access in the Regional Areas of Greece", a framework entered in the Measure 4.3 of the Operational Programme “Information Society”, implements the project “Broadband Service 360° Video – “Be There”. 50% of the total amount comes from the Government finance and the rest 50% from the company’s participation.

ANALYSIS Systems Research High-Tech S.A. (ASR) within the framework of action “Funding of Companies for the Development of Digital culture products (DIGITAL CIVILIZATION)”, a framework entered in the Measure 4.3 of the Operational Programme “Information Society”, implements the project “Representation of spherical video of Kostas Tournas live shows”. 40% of the total amount comes from the Government finance and the rest 60% from the company’s participation.

ANALYSIS Systems Research High-Tech S.A. (ASR) within the framework of action “Funding of Companies for the Development of Digital culture products (DIGITAL CIVILIZATION)”, a framework entered in the Measure 4.3 of the Operational Programme “Information Society”, implements the project “35 years with Kostas Tournas, “January 1976 – January 2006. A travel in the Time with songs”. 40% of the total amount comes from the Government finance and the rest 60% from the company’s participation.

ANALYSIS SYSTEMS RESEARCH HIGH-TECH S.A. CERTIFIED ACCORDING TO THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS FOR THE QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ISO 9001:2000.

ANALYSIS Systems Research High-Tech S.A. (ASR) certified by the international institution of certification DQS HELLAS LTD., according to the International Standards for the Quality Management System ISO 9001:2000.

This Certification comes to confirm the quality of provided services as well as the high level of cliental service which maintains the company in leading place in its sector.

The Certification for the application of this particular quality system constitutes one more proof of the settled commitment of the ANALYSIS Systems Research of High-Tech S.A. Administration, to the continuous enhancement of its products and services. The implementation of quality assurance procedure of Standards ISO 9001:2000, for the total of the company activities ensures that the services provided are fully compatible to its customer requirements. Some of the main principals of the company quality system are: the constant training and personnel efficiency rating, the company infrastructure, the up to date equipment, the continues follow-up of customers needs, the company internal reviews, the detailed business planning, the control rate of customer satisfaction, the company immediate corrective actions and the continuous company improvement.

ASR IS A PARTNER IN THE PROJECT "ALWAYS-TOURISM"

ANALYSIS Systems Research High-Tech S.A. (ASR) participates in the developmental consortium which has already commenced the execution of Project Allways-Tourism. The Project is co-funded by European Social Fund and the Hellenik Ministry of Employment, within the Programme EQUAL, Axis 3.

The Main Objective of the Project, executed by a consortium of 14 Partners (Authorities and Organizations, Companies, Local Authorities and Universities) under the supervision of the Hellenic Agency of Tourist and Travel Agents (HATTA), is the support of the adaptability of personnel and their companies in the infrastructural changes brought by new technologies and the modern tourism market.

ASR participates in the development and exploitation of innovative Information Systems which will facilitate the adaptation of tourist agents' personnel in new technologies and the modern travel agency. ASR will create a series of Spherical Representations of selected Cultural sites and Athletic installations. ASR will use in this activity the unique in Greece infrastructure for Single-Scan, Direct to digital high-quality Spherical Capture that the company has integrated in recent years. This technology allows the company to create complete spherical representations (360? ? 360?) of interiors and exteriors. Then, after the required processing, the high-resolution spherical images are used in a specialized interactive application development environment. This enables the generation of fully interactive virtual visits and tours in interiors and exteriors. The visitor then is given the freedom, with full control from his computer, to wander within any represented space, free in the same way that they would view the real scene, looking around, moving from space to space and zooming in or out to points of special interest. More information of the Interactive Virtual Tours offered by ASR in "spherical tour/ interactive virtual tour".

ASR S.A & DIGITAL COLLECTIONS A NEW PARTNERSHIP IN THE DOMAIN OF DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT IN GREECE

ANALYSIS Systems Research High-Tech S.A. (ASR) and Digital Collections Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (DC) sign a distribution agreement to market DC products in Greece. ASR is responsible for the realization of projects and support DC systems. For further information about DC systems you can call us on 2109949093.

ASR S.A SUGGESTION FOR A SPECIAL CORPORATE GIFT

If you are looking for a really special corporate gift, we would like to inform you about Antonis Karydis new Photographic Album titled "DOLLS & IDOLS". It's about a modern and of high quality collective edition, which includes 200 infrared photographs (168 pages, 28x25cm). The Album is the only one of its kind worldly and Antonis Karydis for this album has been awarded the Associateship (ARPS) of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) of Great Britain. The awarding of the distinction is fundamental to the society's promotion of standards of excellence, universally respected by photographers.

You can find the Photographic Album "DOLLS AND IDOLS" in a very special price if you choose it as a gift for your partners. Our company undertakes to mail it/them to you wrapped in a very impressive, modern and ecological paper package.

We are sure that your partners will really appreciate it!

NEW RELEASE ON MARKET: ANTONIS KARYDIS PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM TITLED "DOLLS & IDOLS", IconIkon Image Publishing, Athens 2004

IconIkon Image Publishing has recently released Antonis Karydis Photographic Album titled "Dolls & Idols". The Album contains 200 infrared photographs.

"Dolls & Idols" is a collection of images of shop window mannequins (what we also call dummies) in New York and Athens. It's a fascinating view of a kind of 'other' life, since at first glance many of the figures seem alive. This Album is the unique Album in the Whole World of its kind using colour infrared Ektachrome, without being either a manual or a scientific book.

"...these plastic dolls with their fixed stare seem to ignore us, they invite their peeking, and thus they come alive" (Some thoughts on Antonis Karydis mannequin photographs by Elias Konstantopoulos, Assistant Professor, Dpt. Of Architecture University of Patras, Greece).

You can buy the Album from:

Ask for its ISBN code: ISBN 960-88155-0-9

ANTONIS KARYDIS, ASR S.A. PRESIDENT & CEO, FOR HIS PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM "DOLLS & IDOLS", HAS BEEN AWARDED THE ASSOCIATESHIP (ARPS) OF THE ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ( RPS) OF GREAT BRITAIN

Its our pleasure to inform you that Mr Antonis Karydis, ASR S.A. President & Ceo, has recently been awarded the Associateship (ARPS) of RPS. The Royal Photographic Society rewarded Antonis Karydis based on a panel with 15 photographs of his Infrared Photographic Album "DOLLS AND IDOLS".

The Royal Photographic Society is the most prestigious international photographic society. It has long being recognized for the promotion and maintenance of high photographic standards around the world. For further information you can visit the web addresses: http://www.creativegroup.org.uk/CrGroup_Distinctions.htm

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Autodesk Applauds 80th Annual Academy Award Winners and Nominees

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., February 26, 2008—The 80th Annual Academy Awards mark the thirteenth consecutive year that all films in the Best Visual Effects category were shaped with Autodesk, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: ADSK) technology. Autodesk congratulates Framestore CFC and Rhythm & Hues for its Academy Award-winning work on the Best Visual Effects winner, The Golden Compass.

Autodesk also congratulates Industrial Light & Magic, Asylum, Sony Pictures Animation/Sony Pictures Imageworks, Rhythm & Hues, EFILM and Deluxe Digital London for their work on the following Academy Award-nominated films: Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Surf’s Up, No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Atonement.

“An Academy Award marks the pinnacle of excellence in the motion picture industry, and we offer our sincere congratulations to all the talented nominees and winners for their spectacular contribution to the elite roster of 2007 Oscar nominated films,” said Marc Petit, Autodesk’s Media & Entertainment senior vice president. “It gives us great pride that filmmakers rely on Autodesk technology as part of their creative toolset.”

The Golden Compass
Best Visual Effects award-winner Framestore CFC used Autodesk Maya 3D modeling, animation and rendering software and the Inferno visual effects system to shape The Golden Compass. “Autodesk Maya was used as part of our visual effects pipeline, to create and light all the challenging polar environments, ice and snow shots in the film,” said Laurent Hugueniot, Framestore CFC’s computer graphics supervisor. The facility also used Maya to build and animate all shots of a massive armored polar bear, one of the film’s heroes. “Maya, with its wide-reaching flexibility, has always been a terrific package for us, easily and efficiently enabling integration of our in-house tools and other packages in our pipeline,” added Hugueniot.

Rhythm & Hues used Maya for modeling the hero daemon characters for The Golden Compass, including Pan, the Golden Monkey and Stelmaria.

Surf’s Up
In the Best Animated Film category from Sony Pictures Animation, artists at Sony Pictures Imageworks used the Autodesk Lustre color grading system for the final grade of nominated film Surf’s Up. As well, Maya was used extensively to create the complex final water animation sequence. The film was directed by Ash Brannon and Chris Buck, produced by Christopher Jenkins and co-produced by Lydia Bottegoni.

“It was necessary to develop animation rigs and tools that could produce physically accurate water motion, which could at the same time be intricately directed and art directed,” explained John Clark, lead wave animator on Surf’s Up. “The Maya software’s extensibility made the process flow smoothly, providing the riggers with a platform to develop a unique character rig for the waves, and providing the animators with a high performance animation and layout environment.”

By leveraging the power of Maya Embedded Language (MEL), Python and the API scripting functionality in Maya, the team at Imageworks customized the Maya software to overcome many of the film’s challenges. David Schaub, senior animation supervisor on the film, commented, “We never have the question, ‘Well, can the software do that?’ Because if it doesn’t, the way Maya is built allows us to create a tool that will do the job.”

Autodesk technology was also used to shape Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated films in the following categories:

  • Best Visual Effects: Post-production facility Rainmaker UK (now CIS London) used Maya for the winning film, The Golden Compass, for modeling, rigging, animation and lighting computer-generated (CG) doubles.
  • Best Visual Effects: For the nominated film Transformers, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) used Maya and Inferno as part of its proprietary SABRE visual effects system to complete 460 shots for the film. Maya was used for all character animation, including the challenging opening sequence in which a robot attacks an American military base in the Middle East. Inferno was used on two key compositing sequences.
  • Best Visual Effects: For Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, main visual effects house ILM used Maya software and the Autodesk Flame visual effects system as part of its proprietary SABRE visual effects pipeline to create CG characters and the Maelstrom sequence.
  • Best Visual Effects: Asylum completed 315 shots for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End with a visual effects pipeline that included Maya, Flame, Lustre, and the Autodesk Toxik compositing software.
  • Best Cinematography: EFILM used its EWORKS proprietary color grading system, which includes Autodesk Lustre and Autodesk Incinerator, for the digital color grades of No Country for Old Men and fellow nominee, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Digital intermediates for both films were realized at 4K resolution.
  • Best Cinematography: Deluxe Digital London used Lustre to digitally color grade the nominated film Atonement.
  • Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design Nomination Packages: To build the sketch drawings and design packages for the Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design categories, Paul Nesmith from Pixel Blues created the sketches and animation with the Autodesk Smoke editing and finishing software.