2016 Academy VFX Bake-off: 10 Oscar Hopefuls Vie for Nominations

Jennifer Wolfe
VFX Supervisor Andy Whitehurst presented the visual effects for Ex Machina, a film centered around a young programmer’s evaluation of a female android, with VFX provided by Double Negative, Milk VFX and Utopia.
VFX Supervisor Andy Whitehurst presented the visual effects for Ex Machina, a film centered around a young programmer’s evaluation of a female android, with VFX provided by Double Negative, Milk VFX and Utopia.

VFXWorld — January, 11 2016
2016 Academy VFX Bake-off: 10 Oscar Hopefuls Vie for Nominations

It’s once again that time of year when the motion picture industry’s visual magicians get together, swap notes on the latest nasty VFX project underbid they’ve had to counter, and select the five best VFX-driven films. This past Saturday evening, the visual effects branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences held its 2016 “VFX Bake-off,” the annual event where members view presentations of the top 10 visual effects-driven films of the past year prior to voting for the final five nominees. And once again, these VFX wizards showed there is practically no mind-bending, gut-wrenching and spectacular visual they can’t create. (Read full story…)