Hugo Oscar VFX Nomination

Hugo has been nominated for a Visual Effects Oscar.

Working alongside Visual Effects Supervisors Rob Legato and Ben Grossmann, Nvizage spent nine months creating all the previsualization content for Hugo. Nvizage designed a virtual production system for both Previs and Onset Previs.

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VES Winner for Outstanding Virtual Cinematography

The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced it's winners for the 10th Annual VES Awards. Nvizage's Martin Chamney has won for Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture.

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Man in the Moon

Check out this quarters Cinefex magazine 128 for Joe Fordham's article Man in the Moon talking to visual effects supervisor Rob Legato who oversaw visual effects on Scorcese's Hugo. The story features Nvizage's work in creating virtual previs animatics.

"Previsualization supervisors Nic Hatch and Martin Chamney, co-founders of Nvizage, joined the production to develop 3D animatics of virtual set extensions, initially focusing on a chase scene that follows Hugo as he flees through the crowded train station pursued by the station inspector and a dog. “The main station set at Shepperton was only the middle concourse,” observed Martin Chamney. “We had to figure out what was beyond the greenscreen. Supervising art director Dave Warren gave us photographs of various Paris stations, and we built a hybrid design from those. "

Nvizage - Hugo Previs Talk at Paris FX

Nvizage was present at the annual Paris FX conference as a speaker.

Hired by GK films, Nvizage started work on Hugo in April 2010,
working with renown VFX supervisor Rob Legato, to produce 3D
animatics of virtual set extensions initially focusing on a chase
scene that follows Hugo as he is flees through a crowded station
pursued by an inspector and his dog. The talk focused on the
process from working with Art Department through to the
challenges of Virtual Previs Production and the steps required to
develop tailored solutions for Scorsese’s cinematic vision.

Flying Monsters Wins ‘Jackson Hole’ Award

Last Thursday Flying Monsters won The Best 3D Film award at the prestigious Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, one of the world’s top competitions for wildlife and environmental film and television production. The giant screen version of Flying Monsters beat both ‘Born To Be Wild 3D’ IMAX (Warner Brothers) and ‘Meerkats 3D’ (Oxford Scientific Films, National Geographic & Sky 3D).

The film opened on Friday in giant screen cinemas in America and has already received some good early reviews, including the Hollywood Reporter, ‘The film deftly combines fact and fantasy to engrossing effect, with its impressive blend of 3D and CGI technologies'.

Keep up to date with more reviews and progress of the film click here.