Celebrating Alienology’s Academy Award Nomination!

January 25, 2017

Sometimes, you stumble across a story that instantly needs to be shared. Yesterday evening, long-term community member Alienology announced out that he, as part of the Art Department team of the movie “Passengers” led by Production Designer Guy Hendricks Dyas, has been nominated for nothing less than an Academy Award for Best Production Design. The movie, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, tells a story of 5000 people making a 120-year long intergalactic journey — with the two main characters waking up from their hypersleep while only 1/4 of their way through the trip. An enormous starship called Avalon is their carefully (3D) designed carriage for the trip across the vast nothingness of space.

Congratulations to everyone who worked at Art Department of Passengers at Sony Studios. I was honored to be part of that team for several months, specifically working on original concept and many architectural iterations of the entire exterior of the spaceship, main ship concourse & engines.

Design team lead, Production Designer Guy Dyas, was nominated previously for the Academy Award for "Inception"... and for me this is the first time to be part of such nominated team. Stay tuned 🙂 Ship architectural schematic below.

Link to Oscars Ceremony

Back in 2009, Igor Knezevic joined the Shapeways community as Alienology. Over the years, he’s featured an impressive variety of futuristic designs in his shop, offering products ranging from jewelry to lamp shades. While we were already impressed by his designs, we were thrilled to learn that Igor’s design skills had made their way into Hollywood. HUGE congratulations to Igor for his work and for being recognized by the Academy! Check out more of Igor’s work below:

Recent work “Living Pods” together with Anouk Wipprecht for SOMFY. Read the full story behind this project here.

Clothoid.A Lamp – Also featured in WIRED Magazine (US Edition – October 2012). Photo courtesy of Alienology.

Dualnexus Bracelet. Photo courtesy of Alienology.

_Guilloche Necklace. Photo courtesy of Alienology.