fxguide congratulates all the Oscar winners from the 84th Academy Awards.
In a highly anticipated and well-deserved result, Hugo (Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann and Alex Henning) received the honor for Best Visual Effects. The film won five Oscars in total, including Best Cinematography for Robert Richardson.
Gore Verbinski’s Rango – ILM’s first full-length animated feature – won Best Animated Feature, while The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg) took out the Short Film (Animated) category.
NB: it was also a win for Todd Vaziri and his Oscar Predictinator. Todd is a regular host on the vfxshow.
fxguide has also been proud to cover each of the VFX and animation Oscar winners. For Hugo, you can listen to our interview with Rob Legato, watch our fxguidetv ep with New Deal Studios, and read more about the film’s VFX here.
For Rango, we got to speak to ILM animation supervisor Hal Hickel in this fxpodcast. Also, check out our interview from FMX with ILM visual effects supervisor Tim Alexander and ILM Singapore CG supervisor Patrick Cohen. Also, thanks to our media partners at The Daily, Mike Seymour visited ILM to see how the studio created the virtual sets for the town of Dirt, and talked to lead character animator Maia Kayser.
And we went behind the scenes with the artists at Moonbot Studios on their winning animated short The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.
Click here for the full list of Oscar winners.