Life of Pi also picked up Oscars for cinematography, original score and visual effects.
Today, the majority of visual effects are achieved through the use of computer-generated imagery (CGI).
The last 17 Academy Award winners for the best visual effects all used Autodesk software.
By comparison, blockbusters like "Independence Day" use from 300 to 400 digital visual effects.
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Our aim is to make these types of high quality visual effects easy and accessible to everyone.
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And the British technical team who devised Inception's startling imagery are shortlisted for the visual effects award.
The visual effects were all shot on film and will be painstakingly recompositioned, not upconverted from videotape.
Professionals use them to create visual effects in movies and design everything from golf clubs to jumbo jets.
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This can then be used to superimpose a separately filmed scene or visual effects to create a composite.
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His films have blazed new trails in visual effects and set numerous performance records both domestically and abroad.
Universal Everything worked with a London-based visual effects company in order to get the high resolution detail necessary.
"With a superhero movie, we check our brains at the door to some degree, " says visual effects supervisor Eric Barba.
Ubisoft will also use its in-house production studios to create visual effects for the movie, in a bid to save costs.
It's important that the art of stop-motion animation survives because it is an era of visual effects that isn't the same today.
Professionals use them to create 3D graphics and visual effects in movies and to design everything from golf clubs to jumbo jets.
Bay sees a day when videogames will be stored on servers, instead of played on home consoles, to offer theater-quality visual effects.
Additionally, Lucasfilm Singapore, produces digital animated content for film and television, as well as visual effects for feature films and multi-platform games.
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"Hugo" ended the night a big winner, with five awards, in the categories of cinematography, art direction, sound editing, visual effects and sound mixing.
The film was supposed to hit in summer of 2012 but got pushed out to March because work was continuing on the visual effects.
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The city itself was created in a studio and placed here by the magic of visual effects, but even without it the battlefield is unmistakable.
The belated film version, directed by John Bailey, adds some distracting visual effects, but it mostly does justice to the extraordinary talents of these women.
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The movies (selected from 282 eligible films) contain 7, 754 visual effects shots worked on by 30 visual effects studios in more than 10 countries, Autodesk says.
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Both installations were created by Klip Collective, a Philadelphia-based company that uses a patented video mapping process to design these types of visual effects.
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But we've got a really good crew here, a really good capability to do some good visual effects, so we will be available to other directors.
Ang Lee's 3D epic Life of Pi - which went into the awards with nine nominations - picked up two awards for cinematography and special visual effects.
The movie's described as featuring enough dinosaurs to overrun JURASSIC PARK. It's been nominated for four Oscars, Best Art Direction, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Visual Effects.
The scripts gathered dust, the scope of the production and the extent of the show's necessary visual effects deemed too expensive for a broadcast or cable network.
"Vivoom is a great partner for Vimeo because they bring innovative technology and deep expertise in creating visual effects of the highest quality, " said Vimeo President Dae Mellencamp.
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Major new features on the iOS platform include a complete redesign of visual effects, 720p HD video, video High Dynamic Range (HDR), and a new icon for Socialcam.
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Though it has accelerated in recent years, outsourcing to countries with lower labor costs has been a factor in the visual effects business for more than a decade.
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