UDIT hosts the 23rd edition of the Special Effects Society nominations

  • 13 January 2025
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UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology hosted the 23rd edition of the Visual Effects Society's (VES) worldwide nomination event.

With over 8,000 members located around the world, the VES is the only organisation in the entertainment industry that represents all visual effects professionals. Likewise, the Visual Effects Society works to promote visual effects, as well as to generate awareness, prestige and recognition for the industry in society.

The first VES nominations held in Spain

The facilities of the UDIT University Campus became the venue for the event, and these were the first nominations to be held in Spain in the history of the VES.

Thus, the city of Madrid joined 53 other simultaneous voting panels, distributed in 20 cities around the world (from Wellington, New Zealand to Los Angeles, California), in addition to eight virtual sessions located in different time zones.

As a result, over the course of the day, a total of 750 judges judged more than 600 projects entered into the competition.

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