Awards & Winners

Ken McGaugh

Awards by Ken McGaugh

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ken McGaugh.

2009


Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(For advancing the technique of ambient occlusion rendering. Ambient occlusion has enabled a new level of realism in synthesized imagery and has become a standard tool for computer graphics lighting in motion pictures.)

2003


Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement
(For their groundbreaking implementations of practical methods for rendering skin and other translucent materials using subsurface scattering techniques. These groundbreaking techniques were used to create realistic-looking skin on digitally created characters.)