Academy shows the 21 contenders for 2014 Science and Technology Oscars

Last Friday, the Commission has announced that the scientific and technical awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences list of 21 scientific and technological achievements in 16 areas that were selected for the study of other awards.

According to the Academy:

The list consists of devices or claims of prior art to achieve the possibility to similar efforts for verification from the public to private individuals and companies. Deadline for the submission of additional entries is Tuesday, August 26 at 23:59 clock PT. Be carried out thorough investigations into each category of the Technical Committee meeting in early December to agree to the recommendations of the Board of Governors of the Academy, which will make the final decisions prices. And presenting scientific and technical awards 2014 Saturday, February 7, 2015th

The animation studios are represented in the list below. Leica With 3D printing, the Cartoon Brew wrote about last week, this year, among the candidates. Other Studios VFX / Animation, which are the technical achievements of the study ILM, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Weta Digital, DreamWorks Animation and Digital Domain.

Here are the performances this year in the race for the Oscar:

• , Columns overlapping camera phones from afar

  MAT TowerCam TWIN Peek driven (MAT - Mad About Technology)

• Paved areas, high-speed vehicles

  Powered cake JR. (Allan Padelford Camera Car)

• Neutral density filters which remove dirt infrared

  Driven IR Neutral Density Filter Technology (Tiffen Company)

• Light, the main target group of high-resolution cameras

  Powered LEICA C-PRIME Summilux lens series (CW Sonderoptic)

• The process of transmission of audiovisual

  Driven visual of her therapist Shas (Deluxe)

• Technology for digital cinema projectors

  Texas Instruments DLP Cinema technology driven (Texas Instruments)

• Mixing interactive modeling and manufacturing

  LAIKA driven modeling and animation flip TECHNOLOGY (LAIKA, Inc.) and the shape of the ILM system Sculpture (ILM)

• Toolkit for measuring and monitoring the quality of the cinema experience

  Driven by the LSS-100P (Ultra Stereo Labs)

• Displays provide visual cues appropriate to examine the feature film

  Monitors driven by SONY TRIMASTER EL Organic Light Emitting Diode IMAGE (Sony Pictures Imageworks)

• Cooperative, and read the images and check recovery systems

  Powered MEDIA PLAYER RV (Disk Software)

• Motion capture techniques for high-resolution objects deformation

  Powered by Mova (Mova) and engineering TRACKER (ILM)

• Care systems and interactive direct manipulation of digital poetry

  Powered by Barber (Weta Digital)

• The implementation of the regulations, maintenance and collision resolution digital pens

  Dreams spring driven system (DreamWorks Animation)

• Systems modeling, animation and rendering vegetation Digital

  Powered SpeedTree (IDV)

• Digital technology to simulate the physical destruction of high-density

  DROP driven by the destruction of tools (Digital Domain) and Finite Element Modeling destruction (University of California at Berkeley) and ODIN - Uniform Multi HPC simulation platform (Weta Digital)

• Effective volume data formats

  Driven by the field of 3D (Sony Pictures Imageworks) and VDB: large quantities decision sparse with dynamic topology (DreamWorks Animation)