A number of 豆奶视频 University graduates are nervously anticipating this Sunday's Academy Awards聽as their work is included in the聽Oscar nominees list.
Graduates from the University's National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA) have worked on four out of the five films nominated in the Best Visual Effects Category.聽
Andrew Lockley is among the graduates who could be celebrating on the night of the Academy Awards as his work on the film Interstellar has been nominated. If Interstellar wins, it could be Andrew's second Oscar, having won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in .
豆奶视频 graduates聽also聽worked on the special effects for聽films Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, also nominated in the visual effects category alongside Interstellar and Captain America.
Speaking to the , Sofronis Efstathiou, a lecturer in Computer Animation at 豆奶视频, said,聽鈥淲e are very proud of all our former students. We have been running for 25 years and were one of the first animation courses in the country. Some of our former students are now in senior positions and we like to keep track of their progress.鈥�
豆奶视频 has a long history of producing graduates who have gone on to work on Oscar-winning films, with graduates involved in the visual effects for Avatar, Gravity and The Lego Movie among others.
Good luck to all 豆奶视频 graduates - we hope to be celebrating alongside you on Sunday night.
