Goodbye Kansas wins prestigious VFX Award

The Visual Effects Society announced the winners of the 18th Annual VES Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on January 29th. VES Awards is the prestigious yearly celebration that recognizes outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials and video games and the VFX supervisors, VFX producers and hands-on artists who bring this work to life. It’s often referred to as the “Oscars for the VFX Industry”. It was the third time that Goodbye Kansas artists were nominated.

Animation Director Jonas Ekman & Lead Character Artist Jonas Skoog (Goodbye Kansas) and Senior Concept Artist Marek Madej & Principal Character Artist Grzegorz Chojnacki (CD Projekt Red) won the award for “Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial” for their work on the character Dex in the “Cyberpunk 2077” E3 trailer at the 18^th Annual VES Awards gala in Los Angeles on January 29^th.

Jonas Skoog and Jonas Ekman commented: “We would like to thank The Visual Effect Society for this amazing honor. Goodbye Kansas would also like to thank CD Projekt Red for a truly great production, an opportunity to work on a project of which we are immensely proud. We share this award with all hard working fellow artists at Goodbye Kansas and CD Projekt Red. Creating outstanding Visual Effects is always a great team work and that feeling of collective creative power is one of the best things with this industry. Thank you all!”