Silhouette Wins Academy Award for Technical Achievement
Silhouette - Industry favorite Rotoscoping / Paint / Compositing
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on December 12th that Silhouette won an Academy Award for technical achievement to be presented at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards on Saturday, February 9, 2019.
"Each year, the Academy forms a diverse committee made up of nearly 60 experts on the technology of filmmaking tasked with examining the tools that artists use to create films," said Doug Roble, chair of the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee. "This year, the committee is recognizing nine technologies from around the world. These extraordinary contributions to the science of filmmaking have elevated our art form to incredible new heights."
Silhouette received an Academy Award for providing a comprehensive solution for painting, rotoscoping, and image manipulation of high-resolution image sequences. Its fast, scalable and extensible architecture has resulted in wide adoption in motion picture post-production.
About SilhouetteFX, LLC: Located on the web at http://www.silhouettefx.com, SilhouetteFX has provided leading visual effects industry tools since 2004. SilhouetteFX has long been a leading innovator offering early support of a full stereoscopic workflow, the first Inverse-Kinematic driven rotoscoping system, a breakthrough hybrid raster paint system and a new vision for shape-driven warping and morphing from the people who invented it.
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