Autodesk's Software Has Starring Role In 2013 Oscar Nominees

Autodesk's software was used to create effects in 21 nominees for the 2013 Academy Awards, including the Sci Fi flick "Prometheus." (© 2012 Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved.)

Autodesk might have made a name for itself with the CAD software used by architects and engineers to design and model everything from buildings to machines, but the San Francisco-based company has also had a hand in helping bring many Hollywood blockbusters to the big screen.
The last 17 Academy Award winners for Best Visual Effects have used Autodesk’s 3D, animation and/or visual effects software, and this year the company says all five nominees in the Best Visual Effects category — “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “Life of Pi,” “Marvel’s The Avengers,” “Prometheus,” and “Snow White and the Huntsman” — used its technology. The movies (selected from 282 eligible films) contain 7,754 visual effects shots worked on by 30 visual effects studios in more than 10 countries, Autodesk says.
All five nominees for best animation used Autodesk’s Maya, including 3-D features “Brave” and “Wreck-It Ralph” and three stop-motion movies: “Frankenweenie,” “ParaNorman,” and “The Pirates! Band of Misfits.” And Autodesk says its technology had a hand in a number of other movies this year, including “Argo,” “Flight,” “Les Miserables,” “Lincoln,” “Silver Linings Playbook,” and “Zero Dark Thirty.”
The 2013 Academy Awards will be broadcast Feb. 24. In the meantime, you can see how some of the visual effects came together for some of last year’s most notable flicks by clicking through the slideshow below.

Autodesk Goes To the Movies

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