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News Credits: 665 · by **Skowl** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:56 pm

The Visual Effects Society has announced the winners of the 6th annual VES awards, which recognizes achievement and excellence in the field of visual effects.

The Transformers Movie has brought home four awards, including the top prize of "Best Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture" as well as the award for "Best Single Visual Effect of the Year" for the Optimus Prime vs Bonecrusher desert highway battle. The film also picks up the award for "Best Models or Miniatures in a Motion Picture" as well as "Best Compositing in a Motion Picture"

The Transformers Movie was also nominated for "Best Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture" for Optimus Prime, but lost to Davy Jones of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Here are the winners!

Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture
"Transformers"
Scott Farrar
Shari Hanson
Russell Earl
Scott Benza

Best Single Visual Effect of the Year
"Transformers" (Desert highway sequence)
Scott Farrar
Shari Hanson
Shawn Kelly
Michael Jamieson

Models or Miniatures in a Motion Picture
"Transformers"
Dave Fogler
Ron Woodall
Alex Jaeger
Brian Gernand

Compositing in a Motion Picture
"Transformers"
Pat Tubach
Beth D'Amato
Todd Vaziri
Mike Conte

See the list of winners on the VES awards site by clicking here

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:30 pm

All we gots left to go is Oscar!

Then Alex Kingdome will have to eat his collection!

News Credits: 1 · by **Mechabreaker** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:15 pm

Yup, let's see TF take home the best visual effects Award, I will be tuning in for sure!

News Credits: 21 · by **dragons** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:09 pm

way to go transformers your proving everyone wrong for now you may not have won the boxoffice wars but you are kicking but at the award shows and dvd sales

News Credits: 1 · by **Heavy B** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:37 pm

bitchen. straight up bitchen

News Credits: 1 · by ***Galvatron*** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:02 am

dragons wrote:way to go transformers your proving everyone wrong for now you may not have won the boxoffice wars but you are kicking but at the award shows and dvd sales

# 3 in the usa and # 5 in the world with a grand total of 703 million for 2007 on half the movie screens that most other movies had their movies released on is not a box office winner ? It's not the number one spot of course but that's a winner to me!
Anyway, great news of course and it will only increase the budget for TF2 and we'll get more bots and more improvements in general.