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Your Computer Animation Festival Submission Questions, Answered

Your Computer Animation Festival Submission Questions, Answered

Taking Flight © 2016 Moonbot Studios The 2017 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival has a lot of new and exciting aspects, including the brand-new VR Theater. Naturally, there are a lot of questions from animators who would like to enter their work in the festival....

Meet SIGGRAPH 2017 General Submissions Chair Mashhuda Glencross

Meet SIGGRAPH 2017 General Submissions Chair Mashhuda Glencross

Mashhuda Glencross is the General Submissions Chair for SIGGRAPH 2017. We recently sat down with her to discuss General Submissions — what they are and where they fit into overall programming at the annual SIGGRAPH conference. The General Submissions deadline for Los...

LAIKA’s Steve Emerson Talks Career and ‘Kubo’

LAIKA’s Steve Emerson Talks Career and ‘Kubo’

Awards buzz is brewing and "Kubo and the Two Strings" has now grossed nearly $70 million worldwide. What was the production process for the film like? Peak into the mind of VFX Supervisor Steve Emerson, who recently sat down with us to discuss both the film and...

ACM SIGGRAPH International Resources in Macao

ACM SIGGRAPH International Resources in Macao

Photo: part of the IRC committee at the Pixar Party at SIGGRAPH 2016 in Anaheim, CA by Diana Arellano (ACM SIGGRAPH International Resources Committee Chair) In just a few days, the spectacular luxury hotel and casino resort Venetian Macao will open its doors to...

Google and Facebook at SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

Google and Facebook at SIGGRAPH Asia 2016

Photos: Brian Cabral, Director of Engineering at Facebook (l); Paul Debevec, Senior Staff Engineer at Google VR (r) SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 promises to be a thrilling experience for attendees, who will witness the latest advancements in hardware, software and services at...

Meet SIGGRAPH 2017 Courses Chair Mark Elendt

Meet SIGGRAPH 2017 Courses Chair Mark Elendt

This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Mark Elendt is a long-time volunteer with ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH conferences and is the 2017 SIGGRAPH Courses Chair. He has been been a developer at Side Effects Software for over 25 years....

Ninja Theory and Epic Games Talk Hellblade and the Future of Real-Time

Ninja Theory and Epic Games Talk Hellblade and the Future of Real-Time

In July, SIGGRAPH 2016 attendees were treated to an epic Real-Time Live! show that featured some of the greatest achievements in real-time graphics to date, including this year's award-winning "From Previs to Final in Five Minutes: A Breakthrough in Live Performance...

Bogotá ACM SIGGRAPH 2016

Bogotá ACM SIGGRAPH 2016

en español aquí Bogotá ACM SIGGRAPH has become one of the largest animation and visual effects (VFX) events in Latin America, counting more than 6,000 registered attendees in 2015 alone. Over the past six years, with support from the Ministry of Communications...

SIGGRAPH 2016: Tips for First-Time Attendees

SIGGRAPH 2016: Tips for First-Time Attendees

photo credit: "Submergence," courtesy of Anthony Rowe, Gaz Bushell, Liam Birtles, Chris Bennewith, Oliver Brown - Squidsoup Whether you're in animation, research, production development, fine arts and design, or games, SIGGRAPH 2016 has something for everyone. The...

A Festival for the World: Innovative Animation at SIGGRAPH 2016

A Festival for the World: Innovative Animation at SIGGRAPH 2016

Cosmos Laundromat © 2016 Blender Foundation When it comes to SIGGRAPH's Computer Animation Festival, there's always more than meets the eye. The leading annual festival for the world’s most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators, the...

#SIGGRAPHchat – Women in Computer Graphics

#SIGGRAPHchat – Women in Computer Graphics

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....