FilmLight Wins Four AMPAS Scientific
and Technical Awards
January 27, 2010
Source: Filmlight
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences'
Sci-Tech awards has recognized the achievements of ten of
FilmLight's founding engineers in every one of the company's
three main product lines.
“These four awards represent the culmination of many
years of commitment and hard work on the part of FilmLight
staff to develop tools to support filmmaking in the 21st century,”
said FilmLight Founder Wolfgang Lempp. “We feel honoured
and humbled and wish to express our sincere gratitude to the
Academy and its members. These awards will serve as inspiration
and commitment in our ongoing effort to provide filmmakers
with new tools to create incredible imagery.”
Two of the awards are related to the development of Truelight,
which is used to manage colour representation between film
and the wide range of electronic displays. Truelight has become
an essential part in the process of providing accurate colour
in digital intermediate environments, visual effects pipelines
and other digital production workflows worldwide.
A Technical Achievement award is going to Mark Wolforth and
Tony Sedivy for the development of Truelight’s real-time,
3D look-up table hardware system.
Dr. Richard Kirk receives a Scientific and Engineering award
for the overall design and development of Truelight.
Wolfgang Lempp, Theo Brown (posthumous), Tony Sedivy and Dr.
John Quartel also receive a Scientific and Engineering award
for the development of the Northlight scanner, whose ability
to perform high-resolution, pin-registered scanning of film
at the highest quality has made it the industry reference
for capturing the full detail of all the information recorded
on film.
The third Scientific and Engineering award will be presented
to Steve Chapman, Martin Tlaskal, Darrin Smart and James Logie
for the development of Baselight, one of the industry’s
first digital colour correction systems.
Baselight has contributed to the rapid development of the
digital intermediate process by greatly expanding the toolset
available to digital colourists. It has also helped to democratize
digital post production by making high quality colour grading
tools accessible to users worldwide.
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