It perhaps won’t come as a surprise to many of your reading this, but 2020 is thee twelfth consecutive years that NVIDIA Quadro GPUs we’re used on all of the films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects:
- Avengers: Endgame
- The Irishman
- The Lion King
- 1917
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The latest Quadro RTX models accelerate the work of artists by taking advantage of the AI built into their tools of choice, including the amazing hybrid CGI / live action techniques employed on the live action ‘Lion King’ remake.
Nor should it surprise you that seven NVIDIA employees have also been recipients of Academy Awards for Achievements in Filmmaking.
- Matt Pharr (2013): Pharr received an award for his work on physically based rendering. It transformed computer graphics lighting and enabled artists to focus more on cinematography rather than rendering.
- Jonathan Cohen (2007): Cohen was recognized for working on a system of fluid-dynamics tools at Rhythm & Hues. This allowed artists to create realistic animation of liquids and gases.
- Michael Kass (2005): Kass received an award for pioneering work on computer-generated techniques used to create realistic cloth simulations.
- Runa Lober and the NVIDIA Advanced Rendering Team (2002): The team was recognized for the invention of global illumination for raytracing of special effects. Global illumination is now the industry standard and is used everywhere today.
- Christian Rouet (1996): Rouet won an award for the development of a system that creates computer-generated fur and hair in motion pictures.