Lots of men making lots of advances for the film industry, among those 14 considered notable enough to progress to the next stage of voting for AMPAS' Scientific and Technical Awards. The ceremony will be held on the 15th of February 2014. A committee will meet in December to vote. Achievements selected for further consideration are:
- Neutral density filters that remove infrared contamination (Infrared Neutral Density (IR ND) Filter Technology (Tiffen Co.))
- Untethered HD video assist devices (Meridian (Boxx TV Ltd.))
- Software tools for accelerated simulation and rendering of smoke, fire and explosions (Plume (ILM) and Flux (DreamWorks Animation))
- Physically based shading and lighting techniques for digital rendering (Efficient Physically Inspired Shading (Pixar Animation Studios))
- Software tools for integrated sculpting and painting of digital models (Mudbox (Autodesk) and ZBrush (Pixologic))
- Pre-compution techniques for visibility and lighting in rendering applications (Weta's Spherical Harmonics Lighting (Weta Digital))
- Compositing systems using per-pixel 'deep' depth information (Deep Compositing (Weta Digital))
- Software frameworks for integrated and extensible VFX and animation applications (Zeno (ILM))
- Integrated software tools for performance capture, visualisation and manipulation (MotionBuilder (Autodesk))
- Non-explosive car flipping devices (Pneumatic Car Flipper (Fxperts, Inc.))
- Helicopter-based camera motion-control platforms (Flying-Cam 3.0 SARAH (Flying-Cam))
- Digital workflow specifications for managing colour (ASC CDL (D-Cinema Consulting))
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