SIGGRAPH 2025 Art Gallery Chair Francesca Franco sits down with Manfred Mohr, Christa Sommerer, and Laurent Mignonneau to explore the evolving intersection of art, technology, and nature — from algorithmic and generative art to interactive systems and AI.
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Digital Storytelling Through Medical Animation
5 September 2024 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesConferences, Graphics, Production, Visual Effects
Digital storytelling to convey medical information messages has rapidly evolved into our world, and it also made its way into the SIGGRAPH 2024 Electronic Theater.
Friendship Can Move Mountains … and Movies
20 February 2023 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesConferences, Film, Production, Visual Effects
This group of VFX artists created something never done before. Read about the team behind the featured film and SIGGRAPH 2022 Electronic Theater feature “Everything Everywhere All At Once.”
VFX Supervisor Kyle Odermatt Talks the Making of ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’
24 February 2022 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesAnimation, Conferences, Production, Visual Effects
SIGGRAPH caught up with VFX Supervisor Kyle Odermatt to capture answers to community-submitted questions from a Production Session on “Raya and the Last Dragon.”
SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 86 – Directors’ Cut: Behind the Scenes of the Computer Animation Festival
26 February 2025 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesAnimation, Art, Conferences, Design, Film, Production
Join SIGGRAPH Spotlight as past, present, and future Computer Animation Festival chairs, including Tim Cheung, share insider tips, submission secrets, and exciting previews of SIGGRAPH 2025!
Bringing the Most Iconic Primates in Cinema to Life
20 June 2024 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesACM SIGGRAPH, Production
Explore how the most iconic primates in cinematic history are brought to life through the power of VFX and other leading technological advancements.
‘Oh, What a World!’ — Behind the Scenes of ‘Alternate Mesozoic’
21 October 2022 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesAnimation, Conferences, Production
The team behind SIGGRAPH 2022’s Electronic Theater Audience Choice Award-winning film “Alternate Mesozoic” detail their animation process and what it would be like to have dinosaurs still roaming the earth.
The Handmade Look of ‘The Mitchells vs. The Machines’
17 December 2021 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesAnimation, Art, Conferences, Film, Production, Visual Effects
One of SIGGRAPH 2021’s most popular Production Sessions, we caught up with VFX Supervisor Mike Lasker of Netflix and Sony Pictures Imageworks’ “The Mitchells vs. The Machines”.
Ghostly VFX From ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’
3 October 2024 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesACM SIGGRAPH, Conferences, Film, Production
It is only right to start off October by spending time with a VFX expert behind the new “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” movie.
Crafting the Enchanted Universe of ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’
19 February 2024 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesAnimation, Conferences, Production
Discover how the DreamWorks VFX team developed the fairytale elements of “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” while maintaining the essence of the beloved character and world.
SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 53 – Swen Gillberg on the VFX of ‘Free Guy’
4 March 2022 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesConferences, Film, Production, Visual Effects
VFX Supervisor Swen Gillberg sits down with SIGGRAPH 2022 Electronic Theater Director Darin Grant to discuss his latest Oscar-nominated project “Free Guy”.
SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 50.2 – The Future of Production with Larry Cutler
26 November 2021 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesACM SIGGRAPH, Animation, Conferences, Film, Graphics, Production, Software, Virtual Reality
SIGGRAPH Spotlight is looking toward the future – of production that is. SIGGRAPH 2021 Production Sessions Chair, John Kalaigian, spoke with two incredible guests this month on their current projects and where they see the future of production going.