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Showing posts with label rising sun pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rising sun pictures. Show all posts

Friday, January 16, 2015

Oscar Nomination-Proud Dad

Tim Crosbie of Rising Sun Pictures and his team based in Adelaide has been nominated for a special effects Academy Award.
Here is the link to an interview with Tim on the ABC.
My son Daniel is the first person you see when they cut to the workers. It's his left hand writing.
Just a proud dad in awe of what one of his son's has achieved as I am with the other 2.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-16/adelaide-visual-effects-supervisor-shocked-by-oscar-nomination/6021988

Well done Tim and everyone else.

Monday, March 3, 2014

Best Visual Effects-Gravity!

It has just been announced that the film Gravity won best visual effects at the 2014 Academy Awards.

The Australian connection for this award is RSP (Rising Sun Pictures of Adelaide.)
They played a significant role in the film.See link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nBo87Ne4Ss

Here is the renentry sequence in it's entirety.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmyi7GRl4Hk
"Framestore" the  UK Special effects team for this film were presented with the award and also thanked RSP.
My youngest son Daniel worked for RSP on this film with others in the Adelaide Studio.
Well done guys!
And well done all the visual effects' artist families who have to sacrifice family time when their partners work on these films.
See my earlier post on this.
http://geoffthompsonsblog.blogspot.com.au/search/label/gravity%20the%20movie
I am very proud of my son and his workmates.
Probably few have any idea other than families of these artists how hard they work to first of all get the skills they need and then to execute them.
Dan's blog link.
http://danthompsonsblog.blogspot.com.au/

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Gravity

Last night my wife and I and other family members had the privilege of attending an advance screening of Gravity which is being released today.
Our youngest son worked on the film.
He is employed by Rising Sun Pictures in Adelaide.
The film is in 3d and is a spectacular space drama.
There are many reviews on the internet already.
It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
An early tip for an Oscar for Best Actress in Sandra Bullock and also best special effects.
As long as you can handle 3d get along to see it.
As a Christian I could draw some joy from some of the thought processes of the heroine under intense pressure.
Here is one review link below.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2013/10/02/movie-review-gravity-ride-like-space-mountain/xuvSetr6HlYN7Qz48DhBZO/story.html