{"id":8307,"date":"2019-02-25T08:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2019-02-24T21:38:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T05:38:32","slug":"8307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/25\/8307\/","title":{"rendered":"Googlers win VFX Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Paul Debevec, Xueming Yu Wan-Chun Alex Ma, and their former colleague Timothy Hawkins for the recognition of their groundbreaking Light Stage work!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nDiKZJA1XBw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> [YouTube]<\/p>\n<p>Now they\u2019re working with my extended team:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe try to bring our knowledge and background to try to make better Google products,\u201d Ma says. \u201cWe\u2019re working on improving the realism of VR and AR experiences.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I go full <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/images\/RM5etQ\">SNL Sue<\/a>&nbsp;thinking about what might be possible.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/NewImage-13.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"272\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and they worked on Ready Player One (nominated for Best Visual Effects this year) and won for Blade Runner 2049 last year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just prior to heading to Google, they worked on \u201cBlade Runner 2049,\u201d which took home the Oscar for Best Visual Effects last year and brought back the character Rachael from the original \u201cBlade Runner\u201d movie. The new Rachael was constructed with facial features from the original actress, Sean Young, and another actress, Loren Peta, to make the character appear to be the same age she was in the first film.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out their work in action:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8ZnqCKZABY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/nDiKZJA1XBw\">YouTube 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/x8ZnqCKZABY\">2<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats to Paul Debevec, Xueming Yu Wan-Chun Alex Ma, and their former colleague Timothy Hawkins for the recognition of their groundbreaking Light Stage work!&nbsp; [YouTube] Now they\u2019re working with my extended team: \u201cWe try to bring our knowledge and background to try to make better Google products,\u201d Ma says. \u201cWe\u2019re working on improving the realism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8309,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions\/8309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}