As this year’s awards season heats up, the Academy Award that we’re most excited about has just been handed out to the great Curt O. Schaller. Congrats, Curt! Schaller is set to receive a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in recognition of his pioneering work in camera stabilization with the TRINITY 2.As the Product Manager of Camera Stabilizer Systems at ARRI, Schaller was the man behind the concept, design, and development of the TRINITY 2 camera stabilizer system, which is being honored by the Academy for its innovation and importance to the greater filmmaking and video production communities across the world.The ARRI TRINITY 2As we’ve covered in the past, the ARRI TRINITY 2 is a phenomenal piece of filmmaking equipment that deserves all the recognition coming to it. The Academy itself recognizes the TRINITY 2 as “a body-worn system that combines a traditional inertial camera stabilization system with electronic gimbal technology, allowing unprecedented freedom of camera movement for acquiring shots with multiple transitions that are otherwise unobtainable.” “This award goes to all TRINITY operators around the world! Their trust and commitment in the TRINITY concept and their extraordinary, innovative, and boundary-pushing work is what made this recognition possible in the first place. I would also like to thank the ARRI team in Munich, Vienna and the FoMa team for our many years of collaboration and I accept the award on their behalf. ARRI is a special place to work, and the ARRI...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Yesterday