In honor of Star Wars Day, SIGGRAPH rounded up articles highlighting contributions to the “Star Wars” film franchise.
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Extended Q&A: The Visual Effects and Virtual Production of ‘The Mandalorian’
Lucasfilm's "The Mandalorian", season two, exclusively on Disney+ © 2020Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. On Friday, 13 August, the SIGGRAPH 2021 conference hosted a team from ILM for the Production Session “ILM Presents: The Visual Effects & Virtual...
‘Star Wars’ Soars in Real Time: Behind ‘Millennium Falcon’
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the SIGGRAPH 2020-selected Real-Time Live! demo “Millennium Falcon”: Smugglers Run.
SIGGRAPH Spotlight: Episode 35 – Real-Time, Ray Tracing, and Realism
On this all-new episode of the SIGGRAPH Spotlight podcast, experts sit down to talk techniques in real-time graphics and ray tracing.
How SIGGRAPH Helped These 5 Disney Employees ‘Thrive’ in Their Careers
ACM SIGGRAPH interviews five employees of The Walt Disney Company about their current positions and service to the conference via the Student Volunteer program.
Rob Bredow: ‘Everything we do is creative.’
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...
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...
Real-Time Wow
“Anything can happen … and it probably will,” opened SIGGRAPH 2016’s Real-Time Live! Chair, Pol Jeremias of Pixar Animation Studios, preparing the audience for a program anticipated to go above and beyond expectations. Jeremias welcomed attendees after the first...
Star Wars: A Look Back with ILM Veteran Jeff Light
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...
Are Computer Graphics Always the Answer?
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...
SIGGRAPH 2012 Releases Packed Schedule of Production Sessions
SIGGRAPH 2012, 5-9 August at the Los Angeles Convention Center, just released an all-star line-up of production sessions that will be featured as part of its annual Computer Animation Festival, which is open to the public. “Nowhere else in the world can you get this...