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    Advanced Imaging Society’s Lumiere Award winners include tech deployed in such films as “The Lion King,” “Gemini Man”

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    HOLLYWOOD, Calif. --

    The Advanced Imaging Society has unveiled the winners of its 2019 Entertainment Technology Lumiere Awards. The honorees are Dolby Laboratories, DreamWorks Animation, Epic Games, Felix and Paul Studios, Glassbox Technologies, LG, Magnopus, Pixelworks, Radiant Images, Skydance/Paramount Pictures, Sony Innovation Studios, Unity Technologies, and Varjo.

    The winning achievements have in some cases involve deployment on major motion pictures, including Skydance/Paramount for its Multi Format Production work on Ang Lee’s Gemini Man, which also features a CGI “human” character developed from massive amounts of data taken of star Will Smith. Additionally, the Lumiere Award-winning Tycoon Virtual Production System from Magnopus was used in the creation of Jon Favreau's The Lion King, utilizing headsets and software to afford filmmakers the freedom to view their scenes and surroundings in VR.

    The Advanced Imaging Society was formed in 2009 by such stalwarts as Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, Sony, Paramount, IMAX, Dolby, Panasonic, MasterImage, among others. to advance the creative arts and sciences, recognizing cutting edge, innovative technologies.

    This year’s Lumiere Awards will be formally presented on Oct. 28th in a gala ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.

    Here’s a rundown of this year’s honorees:

    Dolby Laboratories–Pulsar Professional Reference Monitor 
    Dolby’s Pulsar monitor played a pioneering role in putting HDR on the map by enabling creative teams to experience never before seen HDR picture quality in the color grading suite. Dolby and the Pulsar monitor played a significant role in jump starting the UHD/HDR industry by expanding the availability of Hollywood movies and episodic TV shows powered by Dolby Vision.

    DreamWorks Animation
    The MoonRay/Arras Lighting Workflow is a Monte Carlo Ray Tracing film production rendering system that can assemble multiple shots simultaneously bringing full production quality scenes to artist desktops in seconds. 

    Epic Games–Unreal Engine
    Unreal Engine 4.22 has provided creatives with a highly flexible and scalable real-time visualization platform. The technology provides real-time ray tracing, collaborative multi-user editing, advanced compositing, and new support for HoloLens 2.  

    Felix and Paul Studios
    In shooting correct stereoscopic VR in otherwise impossible close proximity spaces (such as the International Space Station), the company’s technical team created a special algorithm. The result is a system which enables a parallax-tolerant capture for close proximity cinematic VR.   

    Glassbox Technologies–BeeHive
    BeeHive is a collaborative virtual scene synching, editing and review system allowing users to see live changes from multiple users at the same time, regardless of their location or the tools they use. 

    LG–OLED Flatscreen
    The LG OLED Flatscreen system has shown itself capable of producing the pixel light and color strength necessary to display impressive entertainment content. The “organic light emitting diode” system allows each individual “smart” pixel to emit its own light and to be controlled individually (including be turned off), producing bright colors and deep blacks.  

    Magnopus–Tycoon Virtual Production System 
    The Virtual Production system used to create this year’s The Lion King utilized headsets and software to allow filmmakers the freedom to view their scenes and surroundings in VR. The system combined an estimated 58 square miles of computer-generated CG African scenery elements, which were viewable by wearing a VR headset on the Playa Vista soundstage. The system incorporated traditional live-action production techniques allowing for on-set decisions to be made in minutes. 

    Pixelworks–TrueCut Grading Software
    TrueCut Motion Grading software allows filmmakers the ability to cinematically minimize the challenges of motion blur, judder, and frame-rate appearance. The system allows filmmakers to shoot at any frame rate, then deliver at a cinematically tuned high frame rate with options for a range of desired motion appearances. 

    Radiant Images–AXA Volumetric Light Field Stage
    The Radiant AXA Volumetric Light Field Stage utilizes highly accurate camera positioning for AI, Volumetric and Light Field softwares. Forged from lightweight but rigid carbon fiber, the stage combines extremely low coefficients of thermal expansion while meeting high requirements for vibration absorption. Combined with fully synchronized sensors and expandable density capable of managing 100+ cameras, the stage offers creative teams an adaptive and accurate capture environment. 

    Skydance/Paramount Pictures–Multi Format Production, Gemini Man 
    Director, Ang Lee’s Gemini Man will be the world’s first theatrical release to be widely distributed in 120 and 60 frames per second, 4k and 3D. Additionally, the creative team produced a complete CGI “human” character developed from massive amounts of data taken of star Will Smith.   

    Sony Innovation Studios–Atom View
    Atom View software allows creators to bring the real-world and the computer-generated world into real-time with output to film, TV and virtual reality. Atom View unifies content and creation for film and games with high quality volumetric assets and rendering technology.

    Unity Technologies–Data Oriented Technology Stack 
    Unity’s “game-engine” technology is transforming media creation, becoming the entertainment industry’s “creative engine”. In 2019, the company strengthened its efforts driving real-time filmmaking with the software’s Data-Oriented Technology Stack.  The software has now become an integral part of creative processes for motion pictures, episodic television, video games and commercial/industrial content. 

    Varjo–XR-1 Developer Edition Headset 
    The XR-1 mixed reality professional headset blends real and virtual content to deliver extremely photorealistic imaging or “Hard AR”. The device employs cameras to digitize the world in real time, then multiplexes that content inside the GPU blending it with the virtual content assets. The result is a high-resolution, extremely low latency visual experience. 

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    Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95

    Tuesday, January 21, 2025

    Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.

    Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.

    Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."

    Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.

    As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."

    Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.

    "My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."

    Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More

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