Deanne and I at the VES Awards 2010

Yesterday I went to the VES Awards (Visual Effects Society) with Deanne. I was nominated for an award for the work we did on the movie 2012. We were up agains 3(!) separate Avatar nominations so, yeah, we didn’t win. I kind of knew we wouldn’t. Avatar was very impressive and over 1000 people worked on it for 4 years so they deserve all the awards they get :)
But, the evening wasn’t ruined by not winning. It was really awesome to get to dress up in a tuxedo, see Deanne in a really awesome looking dress and to hang out with a bunch of friends from DD and other companies. They had some awesome speakers and guests there too. I got to hear a talk by Ed Catmull that was very inspiring along with a long talk by James Cameron when he accepted the lifetime achievement award. Other speakers were John Knowles (invented photoshop), Steve Wozniak (one of the founders of apple) and Bill Paxton (Aliens, Titanic and so on..).
It is really inspiring to hear so many awesome speakers who do what we do (and some who don’t). It kind of reminds me how awesome I think my job is. I tend to forget every now and then, but events like these give me a reminder of how lucky I am to work with something I love.
I can’t wait for the next big movie project :)