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Photo courtesy John Fujii for SIGGRAPH 2017 SIGGRAPH 2017, the world’s leading annual interdisciplinary educational experience showcasing the latest in computer graphics and interactive techniques, has concluded in Los Angeles with over 16,500 attendees from around...
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...
Image of Bear Story: courtesy of PunkRobot Animation Studio. By Jessica Sommerville In this fourth installment of our series of regional snapshots, we focus on the climate of the CG industry within South America. Cristián Freire, a Chilean independent animator and...
In partnership with Microsoft, the ACM Student Research Competition — presented annually at the North American SIGGRAPH conference — is a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research before a panel of judges and attendees....
Image from Now Way Out courtesy of Stuff 3D Animation Historically, regions such as North America, Europe, Asia, and recently Australasia receive the majority of the work and funding on 3D animated feature film projects. Regions such as Latin America, on the other...
ACM SIGGRAPH is seeking 20 industry professionals to mentor high school students who will be part of the15th "Spend a Week at SIGGRAPH" program. This program provides a full week of immersion in the best of computer graphics and interactive techniques to high school...
This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Brian Wyvill is a professor of computer science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia and has been active in the ACM SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Conferences for many years. He currently...
© 2016 Walt Disney Pictures During SIGGRAPH 2016, members of the genius team behind Disney's live-action, Oscar-winning film "The Jungle Book" (2016) joined attendees on the Production Session stage to present "The VFX of Disney's 'The Jungle Book.'" Presenters...
photo courtesy Jessica Sommerville by Jessica Sommerville This is the second installment in the regional snapshot series. In the previous article we focused on the current state of the Computer Graphics Industry in Australasia.This article explores both current trends...
This Q&A was originally published in the ACM SIGGRAPH Member Profiles. Mary Whitton is a research professor in the computer science department at UNC-Chapel Hill. She has been involved in SIGGRAPH conferences since 1977 and is currently working on recording,...
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,...
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...