“It is truly an honor to receive the Georges Méliès Award from the Visual Effects Society,” said Trumbull (pictured). “My philosophy is that everything in a movie is an illusion of some kind, and I am very excited that the industry today is now embracing 3D, higher frame rates, and other opportunities that can expand the movie-going experience, and deliver to audiences the kind of immersive and other-worldly images that we in the VES can provide.
Among his other honors, Trumbull received the 1993 Scientific and Engineering Academy Award three additional Academy Award nominations He has an American Society of Cinematographer’s Lifetime Achievement Award and recently became the third person to be selected by his peers as a VES Fellow of the Visual Effects Society.
He founded Trumbull Ventures LLC, a privately-owned film studio founded as a leading-edge film production company specializing in the development of advanced integrated systems for high-resolution digital production utilizing virtual sets and locations, high frame rates, 3D, and advanced previsualization. …
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