Computer graphics and virtual production creator Paul E. Debevec – director of research, creative algorithms and technology at Netflix and an adjunct research professor at USC Institute for Creative Technologies – received acclaim. Welcome to the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award during the Television Academy’s positive 74th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards.
During dinner and ceremony at Maybourne in Beverly Hills on Wednesday night, 105-year-old camera maker ARRI received the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award and seven initiatives have been recognized with the Engineering Emmys .
“We are not only the oldest company here, [but] I think we’re the oldest,” quipped Matthias Erb, ARRI’s executive board chairman who acts on behalf of the camera company. He added, “We want to support filmmakers, we want to support the industry. This award is our motivation to keep going [to innovate]. Other honorees, including Debevec and Sohonet CEO Chuck Parker, also emphasized their desire to continue pushing the boundaries of what is possible in technology.
About 200 guests attended the celebration, which hosted Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal thought) opened with lots of laughter, singing a medley of familiar songs like “Running Up That Hill” and “Video Killed the Radio Star” but with new lyrics about each honoree.
Debevec has been recognized for his work in the areas of high dynamic range photography, image-based lighting and photometry, which are techniques used in VFX computer graphics such as actors. lighting and in virtual production.
Accepting the award, Debevec thanked friends, family and collaborators, including director Alfonso Cuarón and VFX experts Chris Watts, Chris Lawrence and Tim Webber “for the opportunity to use image-based lighting for the opportunity to use image-based lighting.” LED for Gravitation. ” He also thanked John Knoll, an Oscar-winning VFX supervisor from Industrial Light & Magic, “who attended my LED Stage talk for lighting actors at SIGGRAPH 2002, right admitted a little doubt, and went on to help create LED lighting stages for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Disney+ streaming shows. “
He also greets his colleagues about his Netflix Production Innovation “For everything we’re doing to take things further.”
The Engineering Emmys are awarded for developments in areas including virtual production, remote collaboration and audio, including Industrial Light & Magic for StageCraft virtual production tools, which have been used on projects series like Mandalorian. On behalf of the acceptance team, Nick Rasmussen thanks maker Star Wars series, Jon Favreau, ILM, other contributors and the development team.
Sohonet was honored for its ClearView Pivot remote collaboration tool, Camouflage System, a camouflage platform that allows CG interaction with realistic elements and environments, including use with walls. LED. Geoffrey Crawshaw and William Brinkley receive recognition for Leostream remote access software; Shure for the Axient Digital wireless audio system; Stype Cajic, Andrija Cajic, Daniel Kruselj and Ivica Antolkovic for Stype camera tracking tools; and Mark Hills and Marc Bakos for the Cleanfeed remote audio evaluation/recording system.
During the lively evening, participants also celebrated the recent establishment of the Television Academy Science and Technology Peer Group.
