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SIGGRAPH 2018 Keynote Rob Bredow (SVP, Executive Creative Director, and Head of Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) is a long-standing industry visionary who will take the stage in August to share how media and technological innovation come together to form both...
Image credit: Fusion: Full Body Surrogacy for Collaborative Communication © 2018 Keio University Graduate School of Design, The University of Tokyo The Emerging Technologies displayed at SIGGRAPH 2018 will push the boundaries of human experience, the sense of self,...
Image: "Infinite Walking in VR," courtesy of Qi Sun In the ever-evolving landscape of virtual reality (VR) technology, a number of key hurdles remain. But a team of computer scientists have tackled one of the major challenges in VR that will greatly improve user...
Photo: "Doors," David-Alexandre Chanel, Romain Constant: THÉORIZ Studio by Jessica Sommerville These days, students who wish to pursue a career in animation or VFX have lot of options when it comes to choosing education pathways. Universities, specialty, trade,...
The SIGGRAPH 2018 Art Gallery will fuse technology and art to bridge the gap between the past and the future. The theme for this year’s gallery is “Origins,” which aims to articulate myth and technology, science and art, the deep past, and the computational present....
Dr. Wayne Carlson walks through VR’s move from concept to reality and SIGGRAPH’s role in its evolution Wayne Carlson, Ph.D., is something of a historian of computer graphics and interactive techniques. Actively engaged in computer graphics since the early days,...
Image: Panel discussion at SIGGRAPH 2017: The Academy's Science and Technology Council Presents "Hidden Figures" in Collaboration with NASA. Photo by John Fujii by Jessica Sommerville The topic of diversity within the VFX and animation community is one that has gained...
The Lego Movie image courtesy of Animal Logic by Melanie Farmer And, the Oscar Goes to…. Avid moviegoers may not know Mark Elendt by name, but chances are pretty high they’ve seen his movies. This year, Elendt and SideFX will take home an Oscar for their creation and...
This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Dr. James Foley is Professor Emeritus at Georgia Tech, which he joined in 1991 to found the Graphics, Visualization and Usability (now GVU) Center. 1. What was your first job? My...
This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Jules Kenville works in production management for animation and visual effects, currently at Cartoon Network. 1. What do you do, and how long have you been doing it? I work in...
photo by John Fujii © 2017 ACM SIGGRAPH Last summer, SIGGRAPH 2017 attendees were treated to a presentation as part of the Production Sessions program titled "The Making of Marvel Studios' 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2'". What follows is a recap of that session,...
By Melanie A. Farmer For his pioneering contributions in the creation of realistic graphics and advances in computer vision, Ravi Ramamoorthi has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Ramamoorthi is part of a newly elected class of...