December 12

Prometheus and Marvel’s The Avengers among the Academy VFX Oscar Contenders

Congratulations to Ausfilm Members Fuel VFX and Rising Sun Pictures, who worked on Prometheus and The Avengers which have both been selected for VFX Oscar consideration for the 85th Academy Awards.

Fuel VFX

Prometheus

Fuel VFX was a proud contributor to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus delivering more than 200 complex visual effects shots as one of the three lead visual effects vendors on the film.
Fuel was entrusted with the design and delivery of key story components such as the 'Orrery', an interactive 3-dimensional map of the known universe; bringing life to the mysterious holographic 'Engineer' characters, the architects of the Orrey; and creating the 'Holotable' on the Prometheus bridge.

Marvel’s The Avengers

Fuel also delivered 150 visual effects shots for The Avengers. Led by VFX Supervisor Simon Maddison, Fuel looked after three sequences that occur in and around Tony Stark's New York penthouse, perched atop Stark Tower.

In a scene near the film's opening, Tony and Pepper are celebrating the tower coming online when they are interrupted by Agent Coulson from S.H.I.E.L.D. Fuel designed and created the various holograms featured in this scene which give an insight into some of the other members of the Avengers team, as well as the mysterious tesseract artefact.

Rising Sun Pictures

Prometheus

RSP's main contribution to Prometheus was the Storm Rescue sequence, along
with compositing work around the final sequences of the film. RSP contributed a total of 123 shots to Prometheus which they worked on from November 2011 to April 2012.

Total works completed by RSP were:
* Stereoscopic Compositing
* Wire/Rig Removal
* Monitor Comps/Inserts
* Retimes
* Helmet Reflection Removal
* Storm/particles addition for 'Storm Rescue' sequence
* Set Extension
* Camera Tracking