Stargate Universe earns VFX Emmy nomination
Nominations for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and Stargate Universe has made the cut.
The show was nominated for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series for the Season Two episode “Awakening.” In addition to Destiny’s encounter with an Ancient seed ship, the episode introduced the fully realized CG (computer-generated) alien race, which the crew would later learn are called the Ursini.
Competition in the category this year includes Boardwalk Empire (“Pilot”), The Borgias (“The Poisoned Chalice” / “The Assassin”), The Walking Dead (“Days Gone Bye”), and Game of Thrones (“Fire And Blood”).
Congratulations to visual effects supervisor Mark Savela and his team, including: Krista McLean (Digital Effects Supervisor), Craig VandenBiggelaar (Digital Effects Supervisor), Adam de Bosch Kemper (Lead Animator), Erica Henderson (Lead Compositor), Michael Lowes (Lead 3D Artists), Wes Sargent (Key 3D Artist), Luke Vallee (Key Visual Effects Compositor), Kodie MacKenzie (Key Visual Effects Compositor), and all the other unsung heroes behind SGU‘s visuals.
Stargate SG-1‘s Beau Bridges (“Hank Landry”) also adds another Emmy nomination to his resume this year, for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, for the role of Nick Brody in Brothers & Sisters.
In other sci-fi and fantasy news, HBO’s acclaimed new show Game of Thrones garnered 13 nominations, including Best Drama and a Best Supporting Actor nom for Peter Dinklage (“Tyrion Lannister”). Vampire drama True Blood earned four nods, including a guest actress nomination for Alfre Woodard. AMC’s breakout zombie hit The Walking Dead picked up three nominations, including visual effects, prosthetic makeup, and sound editing. Camelot picked up one for its main title music, and NBC’s short-lived The Cape earned a nod for prosthetic makeup.
Winners of this year’s Emmys will be announced in a primetime telecast September 18 on FOX.
|
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Darren created GateWorld in 1999, and today is the owner and managing editor. He lives in Scotland with his wife and two children. (More) |
Sign in below or register to post a comment.
RSS FEEDS |
DISCUSS AT GATEWORLD FORUM >
©2006-2013 GateWorld.net. All rights reserved. This material may not be reprinted without written consent from GateWorld. Click here to learn more.
It would be interesting to see the response if they won.
mythos | July 14 @ 4:53 pmOut of every Alien on TV… The Ursini are by far the best looking!!!! I was amazed when I saw the Ursini, Stargate Universe deserves to win!!!
I only wish Universe used the Ursini more, and not made them a dying race…. Like the Ursini would be the next Asgard. Well anyway the Ursini are my favorite TV alien, and Awakening was one of my favorite episodes of all time, followed by Resurgence!!!! Great TV moments. If only Universe lived to show the Ursini one more day!
acey916 | July 14 @ 6:00 pmThat’s… nice. But it doesn’t get me any SGU.
Eternal Density | July 14 @ 6:59 pmBest news i’ve heard concerning the franchise SO FAR
voniak289 | July 14 @ 7:28 pmOne of the better CGI-Aliens I’ve seen in a while, they deserve to win this one. Also finally an alien on a steady camera instead of shaky cam showing a single frame of alien in the distance while flinging left and right..
The destiny | July 14 @ 7:42 pmI wonder if Spyglass will think differently about Stargate now. Especially if SGU gets the award. Maybe they’ll revive the franchise if SGU gets the win!
wraithkelso | July 14 @ 9:58 pmHopefully Spyglass will look through itself and find a very good bit of television.
If SGU wins it, here’s to a hopeful revival!
If SGU loses it…well here’s to a hopeful reboot in ten years time!
Greenfire32 | July 14 @ 10:10 pmyawwnnnnnnnnn
ipfnd | July 14 @ 10:51 pmAlso, Beau Bridges won a nomination for best guest actor for his performance on Brothers & Sisters.
nathanieletc | July 15 @ 12:16 amMy favorite VFX were done for “The Greater Good” IMHO. Amazing shots, very realistic, in that episode.
ELQ | July 15 @ 12:46 amGo SGU!
Ekras | July 15 @ 1:59 amYawn, Indeed.
Saquist | July 15 @ 4:02 amGenerally I don’t like the idea of “Rebooting” shows later on, mainly as it shows a lack of original thought, and secondly because those that grew up with the original probably won’t like the modern take on a classic.
Imperious | July 15 @ 4:27 amBattlestar Galactica is a good example, also Star Trek in it’s newest movie form, in that I didn’t like either much.
I have enjoyed “Hawaii 5-0″ though, not sci-fi, but a good police show nonetheless.
I honestly don’t understand the rude “yawn” comments – these are some of the same fine folks that have brought us brilliant visuals for all of the Stargate shows for years.
I would think we would all be happy for them and wish them luck.
carmencatalina | July 15 @ 3:43 pmDead happy for them. Beau deserves award after award, Hank Landry was awesome!
The CG in SGU was utterly amazing, best I have seen in TV shows (BSG is second) by far.
I wish the best of luck to the CG team (and the others!!), they deserve to be congratulated, not ‘Yawn’ because without these people, you would still be watching The Original Series’s CG (non-existent)!
LoneMerc2 | July 15 @ 5:16 pmlast year CSI won… CSI! if they couldnt beat CSI what hope do they have against these juggernauts???
Duneknight | July 15 @ 8:11 pmStargate in HD brought forth terrific VFX (especially CG), almost as good as BSG which were themselves, as good as and sometimes better than, some movie CG.
DanMan | July 16 @ 3:44 amI thought the Ursini were terrible personally. Just another generic blue-skinned humanoid race – utterly cliche. I liked SGU – but it’s aliens were way too un-Alien and unimaginative lol. They should of checked out some Olaf Stapledon, Iain M Banks or HP Lovecraft books for some “good” inspiration instead IMO.
AbstractAlien | July 16 @ 9:03 pmursini and blueberry’s were too awesome for TV but i agree there shouldve been Lovecraft aliens i thought that was the point of the show when they said we were gonna get real ungodly looking aliens.
Duneknight | July 17 @ 12:02 am@ AbstractAlien&Duneknight
Phn’glui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wagh’nagl fhtagn
:D :D :D
Come on guys, would you really expect to see Shoggoths or Dohl’s or even Mi-Go’s in a TV show??
Gatefan1976 | July 17 @ 2:54 amBesides didthe crew of the Destiny really need thier sanity tested anymore (as much as I would find it personally satisfying to see Cthulhu or Nyarlethotep doing some chow time on the crew :P )
AbstractAlien, the Ursini weren’t “another generic blue-skinned humanoid race”, they were our little brown friends from the seed ship (see picture with this article).
I think you are getting confused with the blue fishy-aliens that captured Rush and Chloe.
But if you want to have a non-humanoid alien, the particle/sand things from “Air” and later “Water” were definitely non-humanoid. And seemingly sentient.
carmencatalina | July 19 @ 10:25 amBeau Bridges never won an award for his best role.
And that is obviously when he smashes a car in The wizard and plays ninja turtles on NES.
http://www.zimbio.com/watch/AWjQtm7KCqo/The+Wizard/Beau+Bridges
Cube | July 24 @ 10:00 pm…and the award went to Boardwalk Empire. Now, I love that show, but apart from the CG boardwalk backdrops (which were not exactly jaw-dropping) in what ways were the VFX oustanding? SGU or GOT or Fringe deserved it.
DanMan | September 19 @ 1:58 am