VES Award Winners Announced: Big Hero 6 Takes Home 5

The Visual Effects Society 13th Annual Awards were held tonight with Big Hero 6 coming out a big winner. The Disney animated feature garnered 5 wins in character, modeling, and environment categories while finishing the evening with the outstanding animated feature prize. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes also scored two VES awards for character animation and outstanding compositing. In the supporting VFX category, Birdman came up a winner while Game of Thrones brought home the gold for outstanding compositing for a broadcast program. In the video game category, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare beat out Alien: Isolation; InFAMOUS: Second Son; and Sunset Overdrive for best real-time visuals. Congratulations to all of the talented artists that created these incredible effects. Below is a list of tonight's other VES winners. Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Big Hero 6 Don Hall, Chris Williams, Roy Conli, Zach Parrish Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture Birdman Ara Khanikian, Ivy Agregan, Sebastien Moreau, Isabelle Langlois Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program Game of Thrones; The Children Joe Bauer, Steve Kullback, Stuart Brisdon, Thomas Schelesny, Sven Martin Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program American Horror Story; Freak Show; Edward Mordrake, Part 2 Jason Piccioni, Jason Spratt, Mike Kirylo, Justin Ball, Eric Roberts Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Christoph Salzmann, Florian Schroeder, Quentin Hema, Simone Riginelli Outstanding Compositing in a in a Photoreal/Live Action Commercial SSE Neil Davies, Leonardo Costa, Gianluca DiMarco Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal/Live Action Broadcast Program Game of Thrones; The Watchers on the Wall Dan Breckwoldt, Martin Furman, Sophie Marfleet, Eric Andrusyszyn Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial SSE; Maya Neil Davies, Alex Hammond, Jorge Montiel, Beth Vander Outstanding Real-Time Visuals in a Video Game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Yi-chao Sandy Lin-Chiang, Joseph Salud, Demetrius Leal, Dave Blizard Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project Wrapped Roman Kaelin, Falko Paeper, Florian Wittmann, Paolo Tamburrino Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project Ratatouille: L’Aventure Totalement Torquee de Remy Tony Apodaca, Marianne McLean, Gilles Martin, Edwin Chang, Mark Mine Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal/Live Action Motion Media Project X-Men: Days of Future Past; Kitchen Scene Austin Bonang, Casey Schatz, Dennis Jones, Newton Thomas Sigel Outstanding Models in any Motion Media Project Big Hero 6; City of San Fransokyo Brett Achorn, Minh Duong, Scott Watanabe, Larry Wu Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Big Hero 6; Into the Portal Ralf Habel, David Hutchins, Michael Kaschalk, Olun Riley Outstanding Created Environment in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game Game of Thrones; Braavos Establisher Rene Borst, Christian Zilliken, Jan Burda, Steffen Metzner Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture Interstellar; Tesseract Tom Bracht, Graham Page, Thomas Døhlen, Kirsty Clark Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture X-Men: Days of Future Past; Quicksilver Pentagon Kitchen Adam Paschke, Premamurti Paetsch, Sam Hancock, Timmy Lundin Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Big Hero 6 Henrik Falt, David Hutchins, Michael Kaschalk, John Kosnik Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey Dominique Vidal, Isabelle Perin-Leduc, Sandrine Lurde, Alexandre Lerouge Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture Big Hero 6; Baymax Colin Eckart, John Kahwaty, Zach Parrish, Zack Petroc Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; Caesar Paul Story, Eteuati Tema, Andrea Merlo, Emiliano Padovani Outstanding Performance of an Animated Character in a Commercial, Broadcast Program, or Video Game SSE; Maya Jorge Montiel, Alex Hammond, Daniel Kmet, Philippe Moine