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Feb 27, 2023 11:28am PT


SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACADEMY HONORS ADOBE SUBSTANCE DESIGNERS



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KAREN IDELSON

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out its Technical
Achievement awards on Friday night, with Sébastien Deguy, Christophe Soum,
Sylvain Paris and Nicolas Wirrmann for Adobe Substance 3D Designer software
among those honored. It was the first time since 2019 that the awards were
given.

Iain Neil received the Gorden E. Sawyer Award at the event, honoring his
technological contributions to the film industry. Howard Jensen, Danny Cangemi
and John Frazier were among the achievement recipients.

Deguy’s team joins an elite group at Adobe. Only Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After
Effects have also received SciTech Awards. Deguy spoke with Variety about the
unique 3D software that was used on “Blade Runner 2049” and “First Man.” It’s
also currently in use at VFX houses ILM, MPS, Method Studios, Cinesite and
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WHAT NEEDS IN THE FILM INDUSTRY INSPIRED YOU AND YOUR TEAM TO CREATE SUBSTANCE
3D DESIGNER?

I did my PhD in applied math and random processes and I tried to simulate
complex phenomena, like clouds. I was trying to use modern technologies at the
time to come up with something that was complex but was accurately representing
these complex things like clouds or textures on objects. The textures, I
thought, actually became more interesting. On the textured side of things, I
thought there could be a lot of benefits from what I was doing during my PhD.
There is maybe a connection between my research and the world of visual effects
and animation that I didn’t see at first. I realized I want to actually apply
what I’ve been working on during my PhD to the world of effects and animation,
which I’m very passionate about. So I decided to create a company and build
tools around that very idea of this like, the complex amount of simulation
programs I wrote during my PhD. Honestly, there was no need. I saw something
that was not being done. It was like it was a hammer looking for a nail.

HOW HAS THE ABILITY TO CREATE COMPLEX CLOUDS AND TEXTURES BEEN USED AND WHERE
HAS IT HAD THE BIGGEST IMPACT?

It’s having the most impact on textures, and textures are really the digital
materials that you want to represent when you do computer graphics imagery. You
want to make sure that skin looks like skin or wood looks like wood or metal
looks like metal. You’re also able to use shaders so that [the object] can
reflect the light in such a way that it has the right color and color
variations. All this is how Substance Designer has been very widely used to
create textures more efficiently that look as real as possible or look as unreal
as possible.

With “Frozen 2,” for example, they’re looking for something that is more
stylized and you can do that with Substance Designer. In the case of “Blade
Runner 2049,” it’s the opposite idea. The goal is to get to the point where it’s
hyperrealistic and this is also where Substance Designer shines because you can
create very quickly large amounts of pictures that look exactly the way you
envisioned them in the first place.







HOW DO YOU SEE THE USE OF SUBSTANCE 3D DESIGNER GROWING AND DEVELOPING IN THE
FUTURE? ARE FILMMAKERS AND PRODUCERS REQUESTING ANY PARTICULAR UPDATES?

We want to make the most complete tool for defining textures and shapes and
materials and shaders. That’s something that some people have been asking us to
do. It’s a very specialized and narrow area and very technical. There are always
new things to add so I don’t see the end of it evolving.

ONLY TWO OTHER ADOBE TOOLS HAVE RECEIVED THIS DISTINCTION, SO YOU’RE IN THE
COMPANY OF TOOLS THAT HAVE REALLY CHANGED FILMMAKING AND VFX. HOW DO YOU FEEL
ABOUT THAT?

I tried to become a director because I was so passionate about movies but I got
rejected. So I ended up doing science instead. But now, the team and I help
artists materialize their visions, and come up with something new that couldn’t
be done before. That’s really something special to us and does feel very full
circle to me.

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