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Blackhawk High grad wins Oscar, brings new realism to animation
Animated movie characters, that is.
For that achievement, Iben, a 1997 Blackhawk High graduate, earned an Academy Award last weekend.
The South Beaver Township native, director of engineering for the famed Pixar film studio, officially received her prestigious Oscar award when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held a virtual ceremony on Feb. 13, bestowing Scientific And Technical Achievement Awards for 17 filmmaking innovations.
Iben and three Pixar colleagues, Mark Meyer, John Anderson and Andrew Witkin, created the Taz Hair Simulation System that brought a new level of realism to digital characters in popular animated films like 2012 s Brave and 2015 s Inside Out.
And the Academy Award goes to … UK audio tech company Synchro Arts USA – UK film and music audio technology company Synchro Arts received a coveted Academy Award in Los Angeles on 13 February 2021.
Synchro Arts is the only UK company to receive a Scientific and Engineering Award at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science Oscars.
This honour was made to the creators of its unique audio alignment technology that seamlessly and perfectly lip-syncs replaced dialogue tracks.
Synchro Arts technology, VocAlign and Revoice Pro software has been the mainstay of film and TV audio studios for more than 25 years, first used on Hollywood blockbusters in the mid-1990s. VocAlign Ultra is the latest version of the platform technology, released in January 2021.