The Golden Compass….Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood
Congratulations to the winners of the Best Achievement in Visual Effects Oscar this year. The crew also won the Special Visual Effects category at the BAFTA awards earlier this month.
“(The) four people standing up here represent over a thousand artists so, it’s kind of a strange award,” acknowledged Westenhofer backstage at the Oscars. “It’s not like best actor. We have hundreds and hundreds of people working with us…I would like to say it was a fantastic team effort on all their parts. I represented the mechanical effects side and a lot of the work that we do you don’t even see on the screen. There’s a lot of rigs and everything built to support some of the animation that’s done….by these guys here (the other winners). And I’m really, really pleased.”
Congratulations to the other nominees as well: Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier for Tranformers and John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Congratulations to the team of artists for “The Golden Compass” Oscar. But it was only me or everybody feels that the winner should have been “Transformers”?
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Maurício
Well, I think tranformers should have been the winner too. The golden compass is great talking about VFX, but i think it isn´t nothing we have ever seen before.
Yeh,I also thought Transformers was a clear winner, ah well, perhaps the voters have a Vendetta against Bay (Director)?
tranformers should have been the winner.The golden compass was not the real winner.it was a real deal.
thanks to transformers vfx team for their great job.
come on transformers animating a few cubes big deal polar bears making them look real is much harder!!!!!!! congrats golden compass
Few cubes???? ok rosie, let me know your concept of few cubes please. I invite you to see a scene of the transformation of any robot in this picture frame by frame. Few cubes, i don´t think so.