Life of Pi, Brave Lead 11th Annual VES Awards

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Life of Pi

BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- The team that created the visual effects -- including a CG Bengal tiger -- for Ang Lee’s Life of Pi won four Visual Effects Society awards on Tuesday during the 11th annual VES Awards ceremony, including the top prize for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature.

Pixar’s Brave also took home four awards at the ceremony, held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA. Additional feature winners include The Avengers and The Impossible and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. HBO's Game of Thrones dominated the television categories, winning a total of four awards.

During the ceremony, Lee was presented the VES Visionary Award by visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren (Star Wars). Harrison Ford presented VFX pioneer Richard Edlund (Star Wars) with the society’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

The complete list of winners at the 11th annual VES Awards is below:

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project
Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem
Heather Drummons
Joel Friesch
Brooke Breton
Chris Bailey

Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
Life of Pi: Richard Parker
Erik De Boer
Sean Comer
Betsy Asher Hall
Kai-Hua Lan

Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Brave: Merida
Travis Hathaway
Olivier Soares
Peter Sumanaseni
Brian Tindall

Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial or Broadcast Program 
Game of Thrones: Training the Dragons
Irfan Celik
Florian Friedmann
Ingo Schachner
Chris Stenner

Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
The Avengers: Midtown Manhattan
Richard Bluff
Barry Williams
David Meny
Andy Proctor

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Brave: The Forest
Tim Best
Steve Pilcher
Inigo Quilez
Andrew Whittock

Outstanding Created Environment in a Commercial or Broadcast Program
Game of Thrones: Pyke
Rene Borst
Thilo Ewers
Adam Figielski
Jonas Stuckenbrock

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Matt Aitken
Victor Huang
Christian Rivers
R. Christopher White

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Commercial or Broadcast Program
ZombiU
Dominique Boidin
Léon Bérelle
Rémi Kozyra
Maxime Luère

Outstanding Models in a Feature Motion Picture
The Avengers: Helicarrier
Rene Garcia
Bruce Holcomb
Polly Ing
Aaron Wilson

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
Life of Pi: Storm of God
Harry Mukhopadhyay
David Stopford
Mark Williams
Derek Wolfe

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
Brave
Chris Chapman
Dave Hale
Michael K. O'Brien
Bill Watral

Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Commercial or Broadcast Program
Guinness “Cloud”
Tom Bussell
Neil Davies

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project
Natalis
Daniel Brkovic
David Kirchner
Jan-Marcel Kuehn
Tom Ferstl

Outstanding Real-Time Visuals in a Video Game
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Jason Blundell
Barry Whitney
Colin Whitney

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial
Nike “Biomorph”
Rafael Colon
Aladino Debert
David Liu
Nicola Wiseman







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