My friend got an Oscar!

Very proud of my friend (and best man at my wedding), The Amazing Ben Cole (tm).Quoting from The Oscars site, on the announcement of this Technical Achievement Award.

To Ben Cole for the design of the Kali Destruction System, to Eric Parker for the development of the Digital Molecular Matter toolkit, and to James O’Brien for his influential research on the finite element methods that served as a foundation for these tools.The combined innovations in Kali and DMM provide artists with an intuitive, art-directable system for the creation of scalable and realistic fracture and deformation simulations. These tools established finite element methods as a new reference point for believable on-screen destruction.

Kali, destruction... (even on an X-men film)...Ben's job sounds fun! Congrats so much, my friend: I'm very proud of you!And here's his acceptance: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=85Su4H0UBas