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Join SIGGRAPH for our next Twitter chat on Wednesday, 22 June, at 2 pm PT. Once again, we'll use the #SIGGRAPHchat hashtag. Our topic this month will be Women in CG. Women are still a minority in many areas of computer graphics, games, and interactive technologies....
Image credit: Geometric and Discrete Path Planning for Interactive Virtual Worlds © 2016 Marcelo Kallmann, University of California, Merced; Mubbasir Kapadia, Rutgers University SIGGRAPH 2016 attendees can expect to discover the computer graphics and interactive...
Image credit: The Art of Strange Attractors © Robert J. Krawczyk I recently had the chance to talk with Cynthia Beth Rubin about her role as the Chair for the Digital Arts Community (DAC). She feels her job, as well as her committee’s role, is to encourage and...
Design: courtesy of Mario R. Nagamura for SIGGRAPH 2016 SIGGRAPH 2016 invited artists and designers from around the world to create a character design that embodies the excitement and energy of the SIGGRAPH conference. Our winning “Spirit of SIGGRAPH” design was...
Image credit: “The Order: 1886” courtesy of Ready at Dawn SIGGRAPH 2016 Games Committee Member Juan Miguel de Joya shares his perspective on the hottest trends in games and the future of game development. To catch up with him and fellow developers during SIGGRAPH...
This year, the “Spirit of SIGGRAPH” is in your hands. SIGGRAPH 2016 has invited artists and innovators to create a character design that embodies the synergy of the conference and reflects the energetic and inventive spirit present in the fields of computer graphics...
"Inside Out" is the fifteenth feature film from Pixar Animation Studios and the third film by director Pete Docter. On Tuesday, 11 August 2015, a panel of the brilliant team behind the film came together to share with SIGGRAPH 2015 what it was like to make the...
“Some might call it mad. Some might call it magic. We call it LAIKA.” On December 15, 2015, LAIKA officially celebrated ten years of cutting-edge, stop-motion films. A longtime SIGGRAPH conference supporter, LAIKA has shared its eccentric cinematic journey...
Image credit: "The Book of Life" courtesy of Reel FX Creative Studios SIGGRAPH 2016 Production Sessions Chair Mikki Rose took a stroll down memory lane with former Production Session Chairs Roy Anthony, Jerome Solomon and future Chair Emily Hsu. They discussed some of...
The holidays are upon us which means ... MORE TIME AT HOME. If you plan to relax this holiday season with a blanket and some Netflix, we support you. And, we have a few suggestions for artistic masterpieces that, if you watch them, might be kinda, sorta, work-related...
Photo credit: Industrial Light & Magic workers stage the Battle of Hoth for "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back." Courtesy of ILM This post was originally published on the ACM SIGGRAPH News blog in January 2015. With the highly anticipated release of...
SIGGRAPH has always celebrated the synergy of art, science, and technology through a passion for graphics, interactivity, enhanced realities, games, mobile, robotics, visualization, and any other area where creative convergences occur. For more than 40 years, our...