SIGGRAPH 2019 Computer Animation Festival Electronic Theater Juror Silvia Olivas shares how she stays inspired and so much more.
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Celebrating 40+ Years of Coding Human Expressions
This SIGGRAPH 2019 Panel celebrates FACS and its power to make computer graphics and interactive techniques more impactful than ever before.
An ‘Irresistible’ Way to Make Films: Using Real-Time Technology for ‘Book of the Dead’
Real-time technology is enabling creators to have projects at their fingertips through all stages of the process — and that includes filmmakers.
Sundance, SIGGRAPH, and What’s Next for VR Filmmaking
photo of the VR Theater by Andreas Psaltis © 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH We are still in a high-fashion stage of VR where the experimentation and far-out art being presented at festivals like Sundance have yet to inspire the "ready to wear" market we are all waiting for. Since...
Flex in VR With the ‘Beach Body Bros’
Tyler Hurd’s “Beach Body Bros” uses VR to bring users an enjoyable, enlightening, and fun experience.
25 Stories You Might Have Missed From SIGGRAPH 2019
Check out a roundup of some of the biggest stories out of SIGGRAPH 2019.
‘Bao’ Down to the Female Filmmakers Changing Animation
In honor of Women’s History Month (a U.S. observation in March), SIGGRAPH shines a spotlight on the female faces of animated filmmaking who are making waves in the industry.
350 Creators, 14 Years, 1 Incredible Ride: Rick Sayre Talks Making ‘Incredibles 2’
Image credit: "Incredibles 2" © 2018 Pixar Animation Studios In a conversation that spanned multiple disciplines, and multiple years, the team behind "Incredibles 2" spoke to a rapt audience during its SIGGRAPH 2018 Production Session last summer. Relive some of the...
How Baobab’s ‘Bonfire’ Used AI to Make You, the Viewer, Matter
Learn how award-winning interactive VR/AR animation studio, Baobab Studios, created its latest, most impressive project to date, “Bonfire.”
A Student Story ‘Stuffed’ With Emotion
Élise Simoulin, one of the creators behind SIGGRAPH 2019 Computer Animation Festival Best Student Project winner “Stuffed,” shares inspiration and stories from the making of the short.
SIGGRAPH Now: ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’
Technical Director Ernest Petti, Head of Environments Larry Wu, and SDL-Head of Characters & Technical Animation David Komorowski share the process for visualizing the internet on screen for “Ralph Breaks the Internet.”
Pixar’s SparkShorts Program Supports Innovation, Funds Independent Filmmaking
"Purl," SparkShorts © 2019 Pixar Animation Studios “SparkShorts is indie filmmaking inside of Pixar.” In the video above, Kristen Lester and others describe a newly unveiled initiative from Pixar: SparkShorts. Though first revealed to SIGGRAPH attendees in 2017 via a...