"Alice in Wonderland," "Inception," "Iron Man 2," "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1," and "Hereafter" Nominated for VFX Oscar
Source: NVIDIA
SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/15/2011 -- This year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expanded the Best Visual Effects category to five nominated films, and it was another clean sweep for films that relied on NVIDIA® technology -- all Oscar nominees in this category were created by studios using NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics solutions.
Double Negative (DNeg) created visual effects for several of this year's nominated films including "Inception," "Iron Man 2," and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1." Central to DNeg's effects workflow is their proprietary fluid simulation system, known as "Squirt," a component of which was recently rewritten to leverage the NVIDIA CUDA™ parallel computing architecture and Quadro graphics processing units (GPUs).
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Source: NVIDIA