Nafees Bin Zafar, Stephen Marshall and Erwin Coumans have developed large-scale destruction-simulation systems based on bullets physics library. These pioneering systems demonstrated that large numbers of constrained rigid bodies could be used to animate visually complex, believable destruction effects with minimal simulation time.
Two weeks before the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the USA handed out its Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards for the visual effects, sound and technical wizards whose work behind the camera is a vital but often unheralded part of making movies.
Oscars Scientific & Technical Award was given on February 7, 2015, at the famous Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The function was attended by many celebraties, says a press release in Dhaka.
"While the Academy Awards on February 22 will present Oscars to actors, directors and others who worked on films released in 2014, the yearly scientific and technical awards honour those who have contributed to the process of film-making over a longer period of time, sometimes decades," the release said.
Nafees Bin Zafar is a Bangladeshi software engineer who received an Oscar in 2008 for his work on pioneering digital fluid effects. This is his second Academy Award. His parents are Zafar bin Bashar and Nafeesa Zafar.
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