R&H' Bill Westenhofer wins the Best Visual Effects Oscar for The Golden Compass
 
By ASMITA BHARRATI
(25 February 2008 06:50 pm)

It's celebration time at Rhythm & Hues across its three facilities in LA, Mumbai and Hyderabad its work on The Golden Compass is the 2007 winner for the Best Visual Effects Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards. Rhythm & Hues’ Visual Effects Supervisor Bill Westenhofer was one of four recipients to receive the Oscar, along with fellow Compass supervisors Michael Fink, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood.

It’s raining awards for the studio, its most recent award being the BAFTA which it won a couple of weeks ago for the same movie. The recognition marks the second Oscar for best visual effects for the company, the first being in 1995 for the classic movie, Babe. From the Indian CG artist perspective however, it was a particularly proud moment as this is a historic first for our country with the Indian artists and the Indian facility contributing in good measure.

 
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Westenhofer led a crew of 500 in both USA and India over a period of 18 months to produce over 400 shots featured in the movie. Rhythm & Hues’ work includes creation of the hero daemons, including Dakota Blue Richard‘s daemon Pan in all his incarnations; the Golden Monkey (Nicole Kidman’s daemon); Stelmaria, (Daniel Craig’s daemon), along with the spyflies and numerous other characters. Rhythm & Hues India contributed to all stages of the production process and delivered roughly 1/3rd of the total work done by R&H.

Speaking to AnimationXpress.com, Prashant Buyyala, MD, Rhythm & Hues India shared, “Congratulations to Bill Westenhofer and everyone at Rhythm & Hues both in USA and in India for this truly amazing recognition! It has been a remarkable year for our studio after winning a BAFTA for best VFX, and a Sci-Tech Academy Award for our proprietary fluid simulation software, winning an Oscar is a crowning achievement! We are all extremely happy and proud to be part of the Rhythm & Hues family!”

Congratulations to the entire team of R&H at Mumbai, Hyderabad and LA. Looking forward to more such achievements.

 
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