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Digital Arts Community (DAC)

Digital Arts Community (DAC)

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...

Explore Your Creative Side: Art at SIGGRAPH 2016

Explore Your Creative Side: Art at SIGGRAPH 2016

© 2016 Misha Rabinovich, University of Massachusetts Lowell SIGGRAPH is the premier event for showcasing the cutting-edge research and innovation that drives computer graphics and interactive techniques, and the Art Gallery and Art Papers programs are designed to...

Meet the Winner of the Spirit of SIGGRAPH Character Design Contest

Meet the Winner of the Spirit of SIGGRAPH Character Design Contest

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...

5 Tips for Creating a Winning Character Design

5 Tips for Creating a Winning Character Design

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...

Between Two ‘Feuding Cities’ Lives Transition Spaces

Between Two ‘Feuding Cities’ Lives Transition Spaces

By Gerry Derksen Transition spaces in the context of the “city” are central to the Studio concept at the upcoming SIGGRAPH 2016 conference. The spaces that form between the virtual and the physical world blur and change as we construct and demolish in a game we are...

SIGGRAPH 2016: Contribute Your Content

SIGGRAPH 2016: Contribute Your Content

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...

Trailer Spotlight: Real-Time Live! and Studio

Trailer Spotlight: Real-Time Live! and Studio

Image: "A Boy and His Kite" Gavin Moran and Nick Penwarden, Epic Games SIGGRAPH 2015 is just days away and we have two final trailers to share before the best and brightest in computer graphics and interactive techniques converge 9-13, August in downtown L.A.!...