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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...

Meet the Jury for the 2017 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival

Meet the Jury for the 2017 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival

Photo: clockwise from top left: Rick Sayre, Polly Ing, Floyd Norman, Georgina Hayns, Till Nowak, Kim Libreri, Rita Street, Cristin Pescosolido. The submission deadline for the 2017 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is 21 March and if you're thinking about entering...

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....

Behind the Film: The Making of ‘Zootopia’

Behind the Film: The Making of ‘Zootopia’

© 2016 Walt Disney Animation Studios The journey to make the Golden Globe-winning "Zootopia" began six years ago when director Byron Howard finished "Tangled" and John Lasseter, chief creative officer for Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, said to...

SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 – A Recap

SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 – A Recap

SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 successfully concluded its ninth edition, which brought together some of the biggest names and organizations in the computer graphics and interactive techniques industry. Held from 5 to 8 December 2016 at The Venetian Macao, Asia’s premier graphics,...

Jury’s Choice: The Making of ‘Cosmos Laundromat’

Jury’s Choice: The Making of ‘Cosmos Laundromat’

© Blender Foundation | gooseberry.blender.org SIGGRAPH 2016 Computer Animation Festival Jury's Choice winner "Cosmos Laundromat – First Cycle" — originally code-named "Project Gooseberry" by its Blender team — is one of the most unique projects the festival has seen....

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...

Behind ‘Borrowed Time’

Behind ‘Borrowed Time’

This summer, the 43rd annual SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival awarded the animated short "Borrowed Time" its prestigious "Best of Show" award. As the end-of-year awards season approaches, our team sat down with the film's directors to learn more about their...

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...

Inside the Minds Behind ‘Inside Out’

Inside the Minds Behind ‘Inside Out’

"Inside Out" is the fifteenth feature film from Pixar Animation Studios and the third film by director Pete Docter. On Tuesday, 11 August 2015, a panel of the brilliant team behind the film came together to share with SIGGRAPH 2015 what it was like to make the...