NVIDIA GPUs Used To Create Academy Award Nominated Movies Including Avatar 2 & The Batman

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What do the movies All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Batman, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Top Gun Maverick have in common? Outside of being nominated in the Visual Effects category for the 95th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 12, the five movies also share a common graphics technology for their visual effects, powered by NVIDIA RTX GPUs.

Over the last fifteen years, NVIDIA's technologies and advancements have helped all films to be nominated for Best Visual Effects by the Academy Awards. NVIDIA technologies, such as ray tracing in real-time, AI modeling and simulation, and virtual productions, are all possible in today's television and film.

Weta FX, one of the most prominent award-winning studios, worked on the visual effects of the newest Avatar movie, Avatar: The Way of Water. The company delivered a fantastic 3,240 shots comprising 98% of what audiences see in the film, most featuring lifelike water. Weta FX was required to push the boundaries of realism in the sequel's water environments, especially in shots where clothing and skin were needed to appear as natural as possible with realistic water drips and water flow on the body. This required the visual effects team to develop a new toolset specifically focused on realistic water imagery that would assist with rendering images and more.

The process is quite revolutionary. The visual effects studio began with performance captures during pre-production using "a real-time, GPU-based ocean spectrum deformer." This was the starting point for Weta FX to create realistic water on the set. Next, the company introduced "a new suite of water solvers." Weta FX utilized the company's Loki framework, designed in-house for multiphysics