Our episodic content team earned Emmy nominations for their work on Foundation and Stranger Things!
We are thrilled to announce that our talented visual effects team dedicated to episodic content received two Emmy Award nominations in the Outstanding Special Visual Effects In A Season Or A Movie category for his spectacular work on the Apple TV+ series Foundation and on season 4 of the Netflix series Stranger Things!
Based on Isaac Asimov’s acclaimed science fiction novels, the series Foundation follows a band of exiles in the distant intergalactic future. Our dedicated episodic content team, led by Chris KellerDNEG Visual Effects Supervisor, and Jess BrownDNEG’s visual effects producer, served as the show’s primary visual effects partner, providing 1050 shots throughout the series’ 10 episodes and covering all elements of the visual effects process, including pre-visualization, post-visualization, development of virtual production assets and motion graphics, and our complex visual effects sequences.
Significant footage completed by the team includes the creation of the city of Trantor, the Imperial Palace and the space station, motion graphics work to create the show’s “sandograms”, and much more. Our talented team has already won two awards at the VES Awards for their work on this show. You can also get a behind-the-scenes look at our Emmy-nominated work in our latest ‘DNEG Deep Dive’ webinar here.
The fourth season of Stranger Things broke Netflix viewing records (and even briefly caused the streaming platform to crash!) when Part 2 was released earlier this month. Under the direction of Neil Eskurivisual effects supervisor of DNEG, and Lauren Weidelvisual effects producer, our team produced 290 shots for the entire series.
Significant sequences created by DNEG include the design and animation of Vecna’s Demon Bats, which engage the series’ protagonists in a pivotal battle. The team’s work included tail and membrane simulations, dust and blood effects, integration of 3D blueprints and plate-based blueprints, and delivering five blueprints stitched together to create a single blueprint. of continuous combat lasting one minute, that’s 1617 frames of pure chaos!
Congratulations to our exceptional teams as well as to all our colleagues in the running!
Learn more about our work at Foundation and on season 4 of Stranger Things.
The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards will take place on Monday, September 12. Discover all the nominations here!
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Emmy Awards 2022: two nominations for DNEG! – DNEG