Meet Kiran Bhat, the Indian American techie who won an Oscar

Kiran Bhat along with his team from ILM developed the facial performance-capture system

Were you mesmerised by the controversial digital humans in 'Rogue One,'? Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)'s achievement in setting a new level of photoreal facial animation impressed viewers and evidently, the effort involved has reaped success. In fact, the same facial performance-capture solving system (developed at ILM by Kiran Bhat,  Michael Koperwas, Brian Cantwell, and Paige Warner) will be among the Academy’s 18 Sci-Tech honorees this year.

On February 11, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present awards at Beverly Hills. For India, these awards will hold a special value - as among the award winners