The Ant Farm » VES 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/2009/06/08/the-truth-about-2k-4k-and-the-future-of-pixels/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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]]> http://www.theantfarm.co.uk/blog/2009/01/19/bond-nomination-ves-awards-2009/feed/ 0 But do I get a Cap and a Badge? http://www.theantfarm.co.uk/blog/2009/01/12/but-do-i-get-a-cap-and-a-badge/ http://www.theantfarm.co.uk/blog/2009/01/12/but-do-i-get-a-cap-and-a-badge/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:07:37 +0000 Anthony http://79.170.40.231/theantfarm.co.uk/blog/?p=36 So, the fruits of my labours for the past 8 years in this industry are to have a convincing enough CV to nudge my way into the VES (well it happened back in November… I’m a bit late with this post).
There are quite a few names on the list of members that deserve a lot of respect, so I’m very pleased to be a part of it.

Visual Effects Society website.

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