Kiran Bhat Wins Oscar For Technical Achievement

• Hollywood News
• Updated:January 10, 2017 06:26 IST

• Authors: Neharika Sharma
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Kiran Bhat is an Indian-American hailing from Coimbatore. The man has recently been announced to have won the Oscar award for technical achievements. Earlier, Cottalango Leon, who too hails from Coimbatore, had won the award in the same category. Bhat digitally-created characters like the Hulk in ‘The Avengers’ or Grand Moff Tarkin from ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’, who show emotions just like a living, breathing human being.

Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The award will be presented to Kiran on February 11, 2017, at Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. Kiran, via video-conferencing, explained about the development of the facial performance-capture system. He said, “This was first used in Avengers for the character Hulk where we captured the expressions of Mark Ruffalo. A helmet fit with two cameras was placed on Ruffalo's head when he acted on the set. With this, we transferred Raffalo's expressions into the digital character.”

Bhat was asked if this technology can be used in Indian cinema as well, to which the 41-year-old man replied, “The technology is very expensive, and is pretty much restricted within big studios in the US. Also, there are some constraints with the intellectual property. But there is a lot spoken about the technology during conferences. So if one is motivated, he or she can easily pick it up.” After receiving the award, Bhat will become the 8th Indian to receive the Oscar Award.