Gravity Wins Best Visual Effects Awards at the 2014 Oscars
Alfonso Cuaron\\\'s Gravity has won the Best VFX Award at the 86th Academy Awards
March 04th, 2014
Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity" has won the Best VFX Award at the 86th Academy Awards. The award goes to the film's VFX team of Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould. It is the first Oscar for Webber, Lawrence and Shirk.
Gravity movie has won film editing, cinematography, original score, sound editing and mixing and the best director award for Alfonso Cuaron. The movie stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, tells the story of three members of a shuttle crew who, when working outside the craft to repair the Hubble telescope, have a catastrophic encounter with a field of space debris.
‘Gravity’ wins top American Society of Cinematographers award
The Gravity movie cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki won top honors from the American Society of Cinematographers for his work on Gravity, it was announced at a ceremony tonight. It’s his third win from the group after Children of Men and The Tree of Life.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
