2009 CREATE:Awards winner Iloura has announced that The Pacific has received two 2010 Emmy Award nominations for ‘Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special’.

Melbourne based animation and VFX studio Iloura worked on nine of the ten episodes, providing a broad range of VFX requirements across 184 shots for the production. Mark Hoerr, Vice President of Post Production, HBO Film and Mini Series, said “Iloura delivered a number of the big, signature shots for the series. It was a wonderful collaboration. Iloura’s artistic and technical contributions were invaluable in realising the series’ epic scope and quest for authenticity.”

One of these signature shots was completed for episode one of the series, which is up for nomination. The sequences features troops at war, loading into smaller landing boats from battleships. Very little of this scene was achieved in camera.

“Some of the foreground boats were captured on camera, but most of the boats, ships and the airplanes were generated in 3D, as was all of the cannon fire. The ocean is a mixture of live action elements and computer graphics (CG), particularly where water interacts with the ships. The foreground ship from which the troops are disembarking was a combination of a set and CG extensions. The troops themselves were shot against blue screen and integrated carefully into the final shot” said Ineke Majoor, Head of VFX, Iloura.

Iloura won three awards at the 2009 CREATE:Awards, taking out the Design for Post-Production category for its SBS TV ident campaign, and the Animation and overall ‘Creative of the Year’ categories for the Drumstick – Summer Parade TVC.

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