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BITS & PIECES www.postmagazine.com 6 POST SEPT/OCT 2019 VISUAL EFFECTS SOCIETY ANNOUNCES SPECIAL 2019 HONOREES LOS ANGELES — The Visual Effects Society (www.visualeffectssociety.com) announced the 2019 inductees into the VES Hall of Fame, the newest Lifetime and Honorary members and this year's recipient of the VES Founders Award. The honorees and Hall of Fame inductees are being recognized at a special reception this month. Venerated VES leader Susan Thurmond O'Neal (bottom, right) was named recipient of the 2019 VES Founders Award. The Society designated award-win- ning VFX supervisor Michael Fink, VES (middle, right), with a Lifetime VES Membership and presents FotoKem's chief strategy officer, Mike Brodersen (top right), with an Honorary VES Membership. This year's VES Hall of Fame honor- ees are Walt Disney, Stanley Kubrick and Stan Lee. "Our VES honorees represent a group of exceptional artists, innovators and professionals who have had a profound impact on the field of visual effects," says Mike Chambers, VES board chair. "We are proud to recognize those who helped shape our shared legacy and continue to inspire future generations of VFX practitioners." O'Neal is being recognized for her sustained contributions to the art, science or business of visual effects and meritorious service to the Society. O'Neal joined the VES in the late 1990s and has served as a member of its global Board of Directors and the Executive Committee. For many years, she served as the chair for the Global Education Committee and currently chairs the Membership Committee. She has been instrumental in the work to grow the Society by lead- ing the bi-annual membership review and approval process. O'Neal has worked at The Mill, Escape Studios in Los Angeles and at Side Effects Software, Inc. Her credits include T2: 3D — Battle Across Time, Titanic, The Italian Job, West Wing, Deuce Bigalow 2: European Gigolo, as well as a host of music videos, commercials and other works. Fink, VES, is being honored for meritorious service to the Society and the global industry. Fink began working in film on The China Syndrome. He was hooked, and worked on films such as Star Trek — The Motion Picture and Blade Runner before becoming a visual effects supervisor on War Games (BAFTA nomination). He has since worked on The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai, Batman Returns (Academy Award and BAFTA nominations), Braveheart, Mars Attacks!, X-Men, X-Men 2, The Golden Compass (VES Award nomination, BAFTA and Academy Award winner), Avatar, Tron: Legacy, Tree Of Life and Life Of Pi. Brodersen's contributions to the entertainment industry are being recog- nized as well for furthering the interests and values of visual effects prac- titioners. Brodersen is one of the owners of FotoKem, currently serving as its chief strategy officer. Due to Brodersen's influence, FotoKem has been a longtime partner with the VES, including serving as the Los Angeles site for the VES Awards nominations events for many years. In his 25-year tenure at the company, Brodersen has helped incubate services, including film scan- ning and recording, digital intermediate, digital restoration, software development and file-based dailies. In recent years, the company has provided post, imaging and VFX support services on Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Aquaman, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Dunkirk, Vice, Green Book, Kong: Skull Island, Better Call Saul and Homeland. The VES 2019 Hall of Fame honorees are Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966), an American entrepre- neur, animator, voice actor, TV and film producer and pioneer of the American animation industry. He introduced a score of innovations in the field of animation. As a film producer, Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, having won 26 Oscars. His creative vision gave rise to the groundbreaking theme park Disneyland and Disney Brothers Cartoon Studios, the origin of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in cinematic history. His filmography includes Spartacus, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey (Academy Award winner for Best Special Visual Effects), A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. All of Stanley Kubrick's films, from Paths Of Glory until the end of his career, except for The Shining, were nominated for Academy Awards or Golden Globe Awards. Stan Lee (1922–2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publish- er and producer. He became Marvel Comics' primary creative leader for two decades, leading its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics industry. In collaboration with others at Marvel, he co-created numerous popular fictional characters, including superheroes Spider-Man, The X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch and Ant-Man. Lee was an inductee into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame and a recipient of NEA's National Medal of Arts, as well as the VES Lifetime Achievement Award. NUGEN AUDIO UNVEILS NEW NAVIGABLE ALERT SOLUTION FOR VISLM LEEDS, UK — Nugen Audio (nugenaudio.com) announced new updates to its VisLM loudness metering software. Focused on loudness metering, VisLM now offers a 'flag' feature that builds on the alert functionality found in previous versions of the plug-in. This will allow users to navigate through true peak and short-term/mo- mentary loudness alerts, as well as manual flags for other points of interest. Included with the update is the latest maximum loudness range (LRA 18) for its Netflix preset that will benefit forward-thinking productions supplying content to the SVOD platform. The company is also rolling out navigable/visual alerts that further simplify operation. VisLM offers a comprehensive user interface design that is focused on the world's standard loudness parameters, such as the newly implemented LRA 18 for Netflix productions. Using this solution, editors can have access to detailed historical information that enables them to hit the target every time. Additional loudness logging and timecode functions allow for analysis and proof of compliance. "We take pride in providing our customers with solutions that make their projects and workflows more efficient, especially across growing platforms such as Netflix," says Paul Tapper, CEO, Nugen Audio. "We find that tailoring our products to the specific needs of audio professionals enables them to accom- plish their full creative vision in a time- and results-oriented manner." O'Neal Brodersen Fink