Congratulations to my peers at ILM in FX who won the VES Award: OUTSTANDING EFFECTS SIMULATIONS IN AN EPISODE, COMMERCIAL, OR REAL-TIME PROJECT for the work we did on The Lord of the Rings Udûn; Water and Magma. Nigel Sumner, Rick Hankins, Aron Bonar, Branko Grujcic, Laurent Kermel, James Lucas, and of course the amazing environment and light/render artists on the seq.