Image of Bear Story: courtesy of PunkRobot Animation Studio. By Jessica Sommerville In this fourth installment of our series of regional snapshots, we focus on the climate of the CG industry within South America. Cristián Freire, a Chilean independent animator and … Continued
Cesium simulation of New York City skyline. Image provided by Analytics Graphics Inc. At SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles, California, the ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic (Carto) Visualization Bird of a Feather (BOF) session will highlight the future of digital mapping to support … Continued
This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Patrick Cozzi is a graphic developer, educator and author working at Analytical Graphics, Inc. and the University of Pennsylvania. 1. What do you do, and how long have you … Continued
Image from Now Way Out courtesy of Stuff 3D Animation Historically, regions such as North America, Europe, Asia, and recently Australasia receive the majority of the work and funding on 3D animated feature film projects. Regions such as Latin America, on … Continued
ACM SIGGRAPH is seeking 20 industry professionals to mentor high school students who will be part of the15th “Spend a Week at SIGGRAPH” program. This program provides a full week of immersion in the best of computer graphics and interactive techniques … Continued
This year’s SIGGRAPH Asia Conference will take place in Thailand, which has a growing industry and academic research in computer science and engineering. There will be three symposiums, Symposium on Education, Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications, Symposium on Visualization. We interviewed … Continued
By Jessica Sommerville & Rick Xu For this Regional Snapshot post, we look into the trends and climate surrounding China’s computer graphics (CG) industry. We were fortunate to speak with a man known to many as “the father of the Chinese CG industry,” Raymond … Continued
This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Muhammad Arief is a Ph. D. candidate at Tokyo University of Technology and is active in the ACM SIGGRAPH International Resources Committee. 1. What do you do, and how long … Continued
This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Brian Wyvill is a professor of computer science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia and has been active in the ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Conferences for many years. … Continued
photo courtesy Jessica Sommerville by Jessica Sommerville This is the second installment in the regional snapshot series. In the previous article we focused on the current state of the Computer Graphics Industry in Australasia.This article explores both current trends emerging within … Continued