A couple of Variety mentions
Surf’s Up got a couple of nice mentions in Variety today. In the article “CGI Lighting get transformed“, David Cohen speaks to our documentary lighting look while highlighting the Academy award nominated Transformers. Thomas Mclean talks about our animated water in his article, “Digital water sends vfx sparks flying.”
Multithreading & Gpgpu, A quick tour
More press
Cnet’s Daniel Terdiman writes, “Why Sony Imageworks got an Oscar Nomination for Surf’s Up“. A detailed read about how we made the waves and camera in the film.
If you live in Los Angeles, we also might be on KTLA news at 10:00pm tonight. If it doesn’t air tonight, it will air early next week.
Quote of the day
The only problem with doing nothing is you never know when you’re done.
Surf’s Up at the Oscars
The Academy included Surf’s Up in the nominations for Best Animated Feature today. Congratulations to the entire team who made the movie and especially Ash Brannon and Chris Buck who are up for the award!
Crashed Mac
A friend recently crashed his Mac. We were chatting when he cracked me up with this gem:
Hope I don’t have to meet a mac genius. I’d look so un-cool standing next to him
VES Nominations
The VES Awards were announced today and Surf’s Up got 4 nods in 3 categories.
Best Single Visual Effect of the Year
Riding the Visual Effects Tube
Rob Bredow, Lydia Bottegoni, Daniel Kramer, Matt Hausman
Outstanding Effects in an Animated Motion Picture
Riding Waves - CG Style
Rob Bredow, Daniel Kramer, Matt Hausman, Danny Dimian
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture
Chicken Joe
David Schaub, Moon Jun Kang, Brian Casper, Andreas Procopiou
Cody
David Schaub, Pete Nash, James Crossley, Shia LaBeouf
Surfer Mag likes Chicken Joe
The surfing community has embraced Surf’s Up. Chicken Joe ranked #1 on Surfer Mag’s most interesting surfers of 2007.
From the article:
Chicken Joe didn’t care. He just surfed. A theme that has been the backbone of our sub culture forever.
Surf’s Up makes an appearance as