Image credit: photo by Jared Kuvent © 2026 ACM SIGGRAPH
As we reflect on SIGGRAPH 2026, the standout art, research, animation, and innovative technologies stay at the forefront of our minds. Take a look back at the content you experienced at SIGGRAPH 2026 by reviewing the stories and visuals shared on the ACM SIGGRAPH Blog, SIGGRAPH Spotlight Podcast episode, program trailers, videos, and more.
Best in Show: Art Gallery
“Sternwerk”
Alvaro Cassinelli and Tobias Klein
Look back on the SIGGRAPH 2026 Art Gallery by checking out the program trailer on YouTube.
Best Art Paper
“Resonance: Meditative Neural Rhythms as Collective Spatial Experience”
Ruipeng Wang, Yuxiang Cheng, Zhiyan Xing, Behnaz Farahi
Computer Animation Festival
Best in Show: Electronic Theater
“Apart”
Pola Maneli (Social Popcorn Films)
Jury’s Choice: Electronic Theater
“18 Months”
Paulo Garcia, Natalia Gouveaü
Audience Choice Winner: Electronic Theater
“Saba”
Liron Topaz (Lirit Rosenzweig Topaz)
Best Student Project: Electronic Theater
“Beyond Words“
Antoine Barbannaud, Théo Merlet, Cyril Buisson, Damien Poncelet, Anthonin Haüy, Timothé Vergught, Mathis De Sauvecanne, Thémys Cheynel, Lilou Leijnen, Romain Gueusset
Listen to the SIGGRAPH Spotlight podcast episode featuring the directors of the Best in Show, Jury’s Choice, and Best Student Project award winners!
Emerging Technologies
Best in Show: Emerging Technologies
“EmerFlux: A Two-Layer Liquid Surface Display for Organic Pixel-Based Aesthetic Representation of Information”
Kaito Shimizu and Toshitaka Amaoka
Audience Choice: Emerging Technologies
“EmoMime: Augmenting Social Behavior and Self-Expression via Wearable Robotic Limbs”
Hideki Shimobayashi, Tomoya Sasaki, Masaharu Hirose, Arata Horie, Masahiko Inami
Best in Show: Immersive Pavilion
“Cosmos Unseen: Black Holes”
Marcus Moresby, Aditi Rajagopal, Bhaumik Patel, Mark Lynch
Get a taste of the SIGGRAPH 2026 Experience Hall by viewing the trailer on YouTube.
Real-Time Live!
Best in Show: Real-Time Live!
“Create Interactive 3D Assets in Seconds!”
Ying-Tian Liu, Hanxiao Wang, Yuan-Chen Guo, Yumeng Li, Yi-Hua Huang, Yu-Lin Tsai, Yan-Pei Cao
Audience Choice: Real-Time Live!
“Dissectible Anatomy: Embodied Exploration for Education”
Tim McGraw, Jack Myers
Watch the full SIGGRAPH 2026 Real-Time Live!, streaming on YouTube!
Technical Papers
Best Paper Awards: Technical Papers
“GimmBO: Interactive Generative Image Model Merging via Bayesian Optimization”
Chenxi Liu, Selena Ling, Alec Jacobson
“Mixwell: Sharp 2D Fluid Brushes for Progressive Physics-Based Mixing”
Doug James, Ethan James
“Walk on Decomposed Subdomains: A Hybrid Monte Carlo-Deterministic Solver for Elliptic PDEs”
Clément Jambon, Mohammad Sina Nabizadeh, Mina Konaković Luković
“Robust Planar Maps for 3D Vectorization”
Robert Fuchs, Keenan Crane
“Inverse Rendering for Discrete X-Ray Computed Tomography”
Lovro Nuic, Ziyi Zhang, Korbinian Sager, Wenzel Jakob
Test-of-Time Awards
“A Deep Learning Framework for Character Motion Synthesis and Editing (2016)”
Daniel Holden, Jun Saito, Taku Komura
“Convolutional Wasserstein Distances: Efficient Optimal Transportation on Geometric Domains (2015)”
Justin Solomon, Fernando de Goes, Gabriel Peyré, Marco Cuturi, Adrian Butscher, Andy Nguyen, Tao Du, Leonidas Guibas
“Intrinsic Images in the Wild (2014)”
Sean Bell, Kavita Bala, Noah Snavely
“A Machine Learning Approach for Filtering Monte Carlo Noise (2015)” (2014)
Nima Khademi Kalantari, Steve Bako, Pradeep Sen
Check out the full SIGGRAPH 2026 Technical Papers Best Paper Awards, Honorable Mentions, and Test-of-Time roundup on the ACM SIGGRAPH Blog.
Congratulations to all of the SIGGRAPH 2026 award winners! We are already looking forward to how our community will reimagine computer graphics and interactive techniques when we return to Anaheim, California, 8–12 August. SIGGRAPH 2027 submissions open in late 2026.
