![]() Side Effect’s ‘Dream’ team’s Industry perspectives The Shape of Water extensively used Houdini, and is itself nominated 13 times this year, across acting and craft categories, including: Best Actress, Best Director, Best Production Design and Best Picture. Breslin, Greg Hermanovic and Kim Davidson for their on going development of the procedural modeling and animation components of their Prisms/Houdini in the 2002/2003 Sci-tech Oscars as well Product specific innovations such as Micro-Voxels in other years. Mark Elendt has previously won with Paul H. Kim Davidson, Jonathan Erland and Mark Elendt during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards on February 10, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California.Īs Mark is being honoured for the fourth time, he joked, “you know, my face may not be as recognizable as George Clooney, but this is my fourth Academy Award !” While he is honored and genuinely humble about his award, he confessed to enjoying “talking about directions that the industry is taking more than I do about awards…Awards are nice and all, but when it comes down to it, you’re being given an award for what you’ve done for the industry”. He actually started his career doing database work in an insurance company “before I found my passion at SideFX”. It is hard to judge if it is more surprising that he seems to be so humble or he leads a technology team as advanced as Houdini and yet he doesn’t even have a mobile phone! Rather than surf YouTube on a smartphone on the train to work at SideFX, Mark avidly reads science fiction books. Mark Elendt has been working on Houdini since day one and is a truly approachable and friendly character, known throughout the industry. (LtoR) John Lynch, Jeff Lait, Kim Davidson, Mark Elendt, Cristin Barghiel and Mark Tucker after the Awards.įxguide spoke to the team, who were naturally elated and somewhat surprised by the extent of honour and respect being shown to their years of work. Houdini’s dynamics framework and workflow management tools have helped it become the industry standard for bringing natural phenomena, destruction and other digital effects to the screen. ![]() To Jeff Lait, Mark Tucker, Cristin Barghiel and John Lynch for their contributions to the design and architecture of the Houdini visual effects and animation system. SCIENTIFIC AND ENGINEERING AWARDS (ACADEMY PLAQUES) ![]() With more than twenty years of continual innovation, Houdini has delivered the power of procedural methods to visual effects artists, making it the industry standard for bringing natural phenomena, destruction and other digital effects to the screen. This work allowed, for the first time, efficient rendering of volumetric effects such as smoke and clouds in a micro-polygon imaging pipeline. Mark’s work on Houdini, also earned a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in February 2012. At the 84th Oscars, SideFX’ Andrew Clinton and Mark Elendt were awarded for their invention and integration of micro-voxels in the Mantra renderer. To Mark Elendt and SideFX Software for the creation and development of the Houdini visual effects and animation system. It is a remarkable honor and it clearly demonstrates just how significant Houdini is to all of film making, and not just visual effects. Moreover, it is being done in the same year as the Academy Plaque is also being presented to the Houdini team. In fact, for such a technical achievement, this is only the 50th time one has ever been awarded. To put this honor in perspective, the Oscar Statuette is not even given out yearly. Happy Birthday Mark! When Mark tried to take a 360 from the stage – he had his fingers over the lens! But then Mark and the whole SideFX team were being honored for their work BEHIND the camera. As a highlight of the 2017/18 Sci-tech awards, Mark and the company got their own coveted Oscar golden statuette.Īs the big Arts Oscars are this weekend in LA and today (Monday) is Mark Elendt’s birthday, we want to join in congratulating him and the whole SideFX team for their outstanding work with Houdini. The first award is an Academy Plaque for four members of the Houdini team, and if that was not enough, the entire company got its own actual Oscar along with Mark Elendt, who was honoured for the fourth time at the Sci-techs. SideFX and its Houdini team have been heavily honored by the Academy in this year’s Sci-Tech Academy Awards.
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