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...
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A Festival for the World: Innovative Animation at SIGGRAPH 2016
7 July 2016 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesACM SIGGRAPH, Animation, Visual Effects
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
16 June 2016 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesACM SIGGRAPH, Animation, Graphics, Visual Effects
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....
Production Sessions at SIGGRAPH: Why We Love Them
26 January 2016 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesAnimation, Conferences, Production, Visual Effects
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...
Star Wars: A Look Back with ILM Veteran Jeff Light
16 December 2015 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesFilm, Industry Leaders, Production, Visual Effects
Photo credit / source: www.movpins.com It had been a long time since the last Star Wars movie when George Lucas came back to Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). He came back after "Jurassic Park" showed him what could be done in terms of the environment in the...
Netflix & Binge: 10 Titles to Spark Creativity this Holiday
10 December 2015 • by ACM SIGGRAPHACM SIGGRAPH, Animation, Film, Visual Effects
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...
Are Computer Graphics Always the Answer?
3 December 2015 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesACM SIGGRAPH, Animation, Visual Effects
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...
That’s a Wrap – Highlights from SIGGRAPH 2015
13 August 2015 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesAnimation, Art, Augmented Reality, Conferences, Emerging Technologies, Virtual Reality, Visual Effects
The collaboration between the graphics, art and technologies always brings out the new, the exciting and the inspired. At SIGGRAPH 2015, various disciplines and interests intersected at the “Xroads of Discovery.” Throughout the year, the conference and program chairs...
Shadertoy Competition at SIGGRAPH 2015
23 July 2015 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesConferences, Mobile, Real-Time, Visual Effects
Image credit: Space Curvature by Inigo Quilez (iq) https://www.shadertoy.com/view/llj3Rz Jesse Barker, Chair of the Mobile Focus Program at SIGGRAPH 2015, shares his thoughts on what's hot in mobile at this year's conference and why the Shadertoy competition is the...
Trailer Spotlight: Dailies at SIGGRAPH 2015
9 July 2015 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesAnimation, Conferences, Production, Students, Visual Effects
Image: The Making of Fruit People © 2015 Emilio Saenz, Treehouse Army It's a given that SIGGRAPH conferences celebrate excellence in computer graphics and interactive techniques. But SIGGRAPH is so much more. At its core, SIGGRAPH is about connections, intersections,...
Showcasing Innovation in Computer Animation
9 June 2015 • by SIGGRAPH ConferencesAnimation, Conferences, Gaming, Visual Effects
Image: Best in Show winner "Citius, Altius, Fortius" by Felix Deimann - Independent Artist Transcendent. Magical. This year’s SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival brings together some of the world's most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video...
Academy Sci-Tech Awards: The SIGGRAPH Connection
19 March 2015 • by Mike AmronACM SIGGRAPH, Industry Leaders, Research, Visual Effects
From the facial animation heralded in "Benjamin Button," to the destruction of cities in "Transformers," and the sculptural artistry of the characters in "Pacific Rim" and the "Avengers," much of the effects on screen are computer generated -- and this year's...