Mumbai, Mar 02: The Americans may not like this, but even the all-American Oscar night will have an Indian touch.
The Academy of Motion Pictures has hired Tata`s Visual Computing Lab (VCL) Studios to design the computer graphics for the titles and visuals that are used to introduce Oscar nominees and winners.


Twenty computer artists and engineers from VCL`s offices in Mumbai and Bangalore worked round the clock for ten days to complete the project.


The team developed the "liquid gold" concept —in which golden drops of liquid will morph into the Oscar statuette—as also the visuals used to introduce programme segments like nominees for best actor or actress.


The Academy of Motion Pictures had given the project to a Los Angeles-based motion picture design and production firm, Prologue Films, which, in turn, had outsourced the graphics element to VCL.