In December 2018, Adobe noted that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that they will bestow two Scientific and Engineering Awards to Adobe After Effects CC and Adobe Photoshop CC for their influence on the advancement of the motion picture industry. After Effects ease-of-use and continually growing capabilities has made it the popular tool in post production, title design, screen graphics, fictional user interfaces, animation, and motion graphics for CD-ROM, games, web, video, and film.

Adobe’s Dave Simons, Daniel Wilk, James Acquavella, Michael Natkin, and David Cotter will be awarded the Sci-Tech Award for the design and development of After Effects on Saturday, February 9th. Other award winners are from the Photoshop, Cinema 4D, and Silhouette roto teams, with a full list shared by Kathleen Maher at Graphic Speak.

CoSA After Effects 1.0 debuted as a Mac-only at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco in January 1993, and become a killer app at version 2 when it integrated its UI window. You can explore the the history of After Effects in the 2018 AEP article Celebrating 25 years of Adobe After Effects. See also The story of After Effects by Neil Bennett and David Simons ’86 talks computing at Andover, start-ups, and collaborating with The Simpsons, both which had nice discussions with AE co-creator Dave Simon.



We may hear more from award ceremony, which is often hidden away despite the importance of the tech awardees to filmmaking (visual effects is part of the regular ceremony), but for now you might catch an interview from last year, After Effects: Revolutionizing an Industry and Shaping its Future, with a couple of co-founders, Dave Simons and Dave Cotter:




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