The five movies nominated for the “Best Visual Effects” Oscar have something fairly obvious in common: They all relied on special software to create the effects. Check out the various 3D tools from Autodesk that were used for each film.
Photos: Software Behind ‘Best Visual Effects’ Academy Award Nominees
WETA Digital
Pre-visualization work for Rise of the Planet of the Apes was done in Canada by Image Engine and the groundbreaking visual effects were created by Weta Digital in New Zealand. Both visual effects studios used Autodesk Maya at the core of their creative pipelines – Weta’s use of performance capture technology as well as its systems to create hair, eye and muscles helped create an extremely detailed, believable and realistic CG main character in Andy Serkis’s chimpanzee. (via Autodesk)
