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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

I just read a great post by Mark Alexander on the current state of Multithreading and GpGPU work. Mark gave me permission to re-posted it here. Opinions stated within are Mark’s own, not his employer.

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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.

Thanks to our awesome cast and crew

Thanks to the hardworking and passionate Surf

As seen in today’s daily Variety.

Surf’s Up at the Oscars

01_80thoscarstatsmthumbnail.jpgThe 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

snap01_0713_10_49.jpgThe 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

chickenjoe1-535.jpgThe 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.

Number 17

17Surf’s Up makes an appearance as #17 on CG Society’s 2007 Retrospective–”the public-voted list of the most requested cool items for 2007″. They make note of the hand-held camera work and the innovative waves.