Scientific and Technical Academy Honors Adobe Substance Designers

variety.com:

Karen Idelson The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out its Technical Achievement awards on Friday night, with Sébastien Deguy, Christophe Soum, Sylvain Paris and Nicolas Wirrmann for Adobe Substance 3D Designer software among those honored.

It was the first time since 2019 that the awards were given. Iain Neil received the Gorden E. Sawyer Award at the event, honoring his technological contributions to the film industry.

Howard Jensen, Danny Cangemi and John Frazier were among the achievement recipients. Deguy’s team joins an elite group at Adobe.

Only Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects have also received SciTech Awards. Deguy spoke with Variety about the unique 3D software that was used on “Blade Runner 2049” and “First Man.” It’s also currently in use at VFX houses ILM, MPS, Method Studios, Cinesite and Digital Domain, among others.