Academy Award for technical achievement conferred on Adelaide's Rising Sun Research
AN ADELAIDE invention that has revolutionised the movie industry globally has won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement.
AN ADELAIDE invention that has revolutionised the movie industry globally has won an Academy Award.
The five-member team at Rising Sun Research on Pulteney St received confirmation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this week that their cineSync online collaboration software had won the award for technical achievement. The official announcement is expected to be made this weekend.
"To be recognised as one of the key contributors to the movie industry is pretty mind-blowing," product manager Rory McGregor said yesterday.
"It's a weird thing to be sitting in Adelaide, as far from Hollywood as you can get, and know that Hollywood thinks you're that influential."
The cineSync technology allows filmmakers to collaborate with visual effects and post-production companies around the world in real time.
The concept was dreamed up by Rising Sun Pictures' co-founder Tony Clark, frustrated by having to send Adelaide-made special effects shots to filmmakers overseas and then attempt to discuss them over the telephone.
It was trialled on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2004 and released commercially in 2006. The technology has been used on more than 60 blockbusters, including Avatar, The Dark Knight and Twilight.
Sadly for Rising Sun Research, the award does not come with a golden Oscar statue - simply a certificate.