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Dark Eye Galaxy (m64)

A collision of two galaxies has left a merged star system with an unusual appearance as well as bizarre internal motions. Messier 64 (M64) has a spectacular dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy’s bright nucleus, giving rise to its nicknames of the “Black Eye” or “Evil Eye” galaxy.

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Over 1,000 Radeon HD 4870s to be chained together to make online supercomputer, allowing games to be played using online processing power.

“Australia”
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“The Dark Knight”
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army”
“Iron Man”
“Journey to the Center of the Earth”
“The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor”

My money is on CCBB, it is by far the most painstaking and meticulous VFX work done to date. Think iron/metal is hard to raytrace? Try human skin, eyeballs, and believable emotional performances by a synthetic character. I would be very surprised if anything beat CCBB this year.