Academy Sci-Tech Awards Go to DreamWorks, Industrial Light & Magic, Pixar

The Academy’s 90th Sci-Tech Awards Saturday at the Beverly Wilshire (hosted by Sir Patrick Stewart) was dominated by the integral animation and visual effects software that powers the industry’s CG characters, simulations, and compositing.

Digital Domain, DreamWorks, Industrial Light & Magic, Pixar, and Rhythm & Hues were among the 10 standout honorees.In addition, visual effects technologist Jonathan Erland received the Gordon E.

Sawyer Award (an Oscar statuette) for his technological contributions.

Erland worked at Ilm as a model builder for “Star Wars” in 1977 and later moved over to Apogee to work on “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.” He eventually became director of R&D for Apogee, where he received patents for a reverse blue-screen traveling matte process, the Blue-Max flux projector, and a method for making front projection screens.Erland also played a key role in establishing a separate visual effects Academy branch in 1995.

He received the Academy’s John A.

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