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The 2019 ACM Turing Award: Celebrating SIGGRAPH and Computer Graphics Achievements

The 2019 ACM Turing Award: Celebrating SIGGRAPH and Computer Graphics Achievements

On the heels of receiving 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award honors, the computer graphics community reflects on pioneers Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan.

How Baobab’s ‘Bonfire’ Used AI to Make You, the Viewer, Matter

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.”

2018 Emerging Technologies Best in Show: Steerable Application-Adaptive Near-Eye Displays

2018 Emerging Technologies Best in Show: Steerable Application-Adaptive Near-Eye Displays

Image from "Steerable Application-Adaptive Near-Eye Displays" Ⓒ 2018 NVIDIA Corporation, UNC Chapel Hill In August, SIGGRAPH 2018 showcased inspiring, bleeding-edge technologies that are expanding the human experience in the areas of health, home, and entertainment...

‘Best of’ Real-Time Winner on Using iPhone X to Produce Stunning Mocap

‘Best of’ Real-Time Winner on Using iPhone X to Produce Stunning Mocap

Image from "Bebylon Battle Royale" © 2018 Kite & Lightning In August, SIGGRAPH attendees were wowed by some of the industry’s greatest minds in real-time production during Real-Time Live! One project in particular stood out among the rest: "Democratising Mocap:...

Celebrating Generations at SIGGRAPH 2018

Celebrating Generations at SIGGRAPH 2018

Photo by Jim Hagarty © 2018 ACM SIGGRAPH   SIGGRAPH 2018 concluded in Vancouver, BC, with over 16,500 attendees from around the world. Attendees hailed from Canada and 87 other countries worldwide, including the United States, China, France, Germany, Japan,...

The Mill and Epic Games Push Real-time Boundaries With ‘The Human Race’

The Mill and Epic Games Push Real-time Boundaries With ‘The Human Race’

In August, SIGGRAPH attendees were treated to an epic Real-Time Live! presentation that featured some of the greatest achievements in real-time graphics from the previous year, including 2017 Best Real-Time Graphics and Interactivity award winner “The Human Race,” a...

Who’s Who: SIGGRAPH 2017 Award Winners

Who’s Who: SIGGRAPH 2017 Award Winners

Image source: Twitter It has been a big, amazing year for art, research, and technology and SIGGRAPH 2017 was there to award it all. Find out who won our top honors and learn more about the projects below. ACM SIGGRAPH Awards The ACM SIGGRAPH Awards program recognizes...

5 Things to Know About the 2017 Computer Animation Festival

5 Things to Know About the 2017 Computer Animation Festival

Scrambled Ⓒ 2017 Polder Animation The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is the leading annual festival for the world's most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators. Here's what's new at the 44th annual festival. 1. 2017 Award Winning...

What It Takes to Win SIGGRAPH: L3.0 Q&A

What It Takes to Win SIGGRAPH: L3.0 Q&A

The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is the leading annual festival for the world's most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators. In this series, we profile student award winners, a key distinction within this Academy Award-qualifying...

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...