Based in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Munich and Stuttgart. ScanlineVFX specialized in creating complex effects for high end feature films & commercials. In 2010, Scanline VFX was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for its work on director Clint Eastwood's Hereafter, which featured a tsunami sequence that TIME magazine called the most exciting, expertly assembled flood scene in movie history. ScanlineVFX is well known for its proprietary, in-house fluid effects software Flowline, for which it received a 2008 Scientific and Technical Achievement Academy Award.