The Ant Farm » Awards http://www.theantfarm.co.uk/blog (Ant's little container of stuff in the vast warehouse that is the web) Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:14:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Sherlock Holmes VES Success! http://www.theantfarm.co.uk/blog/2010/03/01/sherlock-holmes-ves-success/ http://www.theantfarm.co.uk/blog/2010/03/01/sherlock-holmes-ves-success/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:55:21 +0000 Anthony http://www.theantfarm.co.uk/blog/?p=892 8th VES Awards logoI’ve just heard the great news that Sherlock Holmes has won the VES Award for

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture

Congratulations to all of the crew at Framestore and Double Negative who worked on it, and a special mention to Kate Windibank, Sam Osborne and Jan Adamczyk who attended the ceremony and accepted the award on the nominees behalf. You guys look like you do this stuff every day!

The City Palace at sunset
Photo from neonmarg‘s Flickr photostream

For the full list of winners head over to FX Guide.

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]]> http://www.theantfarm.co.uk/blog/2010/03/01/sherlock-holmes-ves-success/feed/ 0 …and BAFTA too! http://www.theantfarm.co.uk/blog/2009/01/22/and-bafta-too/ http://www.theantfarm.co.uk/blog/2009/01/22/and-bafta-too/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:33:33 +0000 Anthony http://79.170.40.231/theantfarm.co.uk/blog/?p=54 BAFTA have announced their nominations for this year’s film awards and QUANTUM OF SOLACE has been included in the shortlist for Special Visual Effects.

Here’s the full list:

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Eric Barba, Craig Barron, Nathan McGuinness, Edson Williams

THE DARK KNIGHT
Chris Corbould, Nick Davis, Paul Franklin, Tim Webber

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
Pablo Helman, Marshall Krasser, Steve Rawlins

IRON MAN
Hal Hickel, Shane Patrick Mahan, John Nelson, Ben Snow

QUANTUM OF SOLACE
Chris Corbould, Kevin Tod Haug

Bafta nominations

The awards ceremony takes place on 8th February.

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]]> http://www.theantfarm.co.uk/blog/2009/01/22/and-bafta-too/feed/ 0 Bond Nomination – VES Awards 2009 http://www.theantfarm.co.uk/blog/2009/01/19/bond-nomination-ves-awards-2009/ http://www.theantfarm.co.uk/blog/2009/01/19/bond-nomination-ves-awards-2009/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:12:40 +0000 Anthony http://79.170.40.231/theantfarm.co.uk/blog/?p=45 The Siena Chase and Fight Sequence of QUANTUM OF SOLACE has been nominated in the Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture category of the 2009 Visual Effects Society Awards.

Here is the full list:

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, PRINCE CASPIAN
Stuart Lashley, Arundi Asregadoo, Mark Curtis, Richard Baker

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Benjamin Comes Together
Janelle Croshaw, Paul Lambert, Sonja Burchard, Sarahjane Javelo

IRON MAN – Head Under Display – HUD Compositing
Jonathan Rothbart, Dav Rauch, Kyle McCulloch, Kent Seki

QUANTUM OF SOLACE – Siena Chase and Fight Sequence
Anthony Smith, Christian Kaestner, Adrian Metzelaar, Jon Thum

CG Society Article
FX Guide Article

The awards ceremony takes place on 21st February.

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