Highlighting DigiBC Member Achievements

To cap off Creative Technology Day, we’d like to highlight and acknowledge a few of the major awards and accolades that some of our members have received within the last year!

Jennifer Twiner McCarron (CEO, Atomic Cartoons & Thunderbird)

  • Women of the Year 2021: Canada’s Most Incredible Women Leaders (Bay Street Bull)
  • Most Influential Women in Business 2022 (Business in Vancouver)

Sony Pictures Imageworks (Spider-Man: No Way Home)

  • Nominee for ‘Best Visual Effects’ (Academy Awards)


Industrial Light & Magic Vancouver

  • Opened one of the largest StageCraft LED volumes in North America


Jeanne-Marie Owens (VP, Operations, Phoenix Labs)

  • Top Forty Under 40 (Business in Vancouver)
  • Appointed as the new DigiBC Games Group Chair


Sony Pictures Imageworks (The Mitchells vs. The Machines)

  • ‘Best Animated Feature’ (Critics Choice Awards)
  • 8 x categories (Annie Awards)
  • Nominee for ‘Best Animated Feature’ (Academy Awards)

 

DNEG (Dune)

  • ‘Best Visuals Effects’ (Critics Choice Awards)
  • ‘Best Visuals Effects’ (Academy Awards)
  • ‘Special Visual Effects’ (BAFTAs)
  • 4 x VES Awards

 

Relic Entertainment (Age of Empires IV)

  • ‘Best Sim / Strategy’ (The Game Awards 2021)
  • ‘Best PC Game’ and ‘Best Score/Soundtrack’ (2022 Canadian Game Awards)
  • ‘Strategy / Simulation Game of the Year’ (D.I.C.E. Awards)
  • COO Heidi Eaves named as ‘Canada’s Best Boss’ (GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards 2021)

 

Cloudhead Games (Pistol Whip: Smoke & Thunder)

  • ‘Best VR/AR Game’ (2022 Canadian Game Awards)
  • ‘Game Audio / Video – Virtual Reality (VR)’ & ‘Best Indie Developer’ (NYX Game Awards)

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