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Rob Bredow: ‘Everything we do is creative.’

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...

Learn, Research, Render: SIGGRAPH 2016 Talks & Panels

Learn, Research, Render: SIGGRAPH 2016 Talks & Panels

Painting with Turbulance © 2016 Chuqiao Wang, Sam Wang, and Robert Geist, Clemson University The SIGGRAPH 2016 Advance Program is out and, with it, more in-depth previews of conference content are now available. Explore the links below for some highlights from the...

Tips for Creating a Winning Poster at SIGGRAPH 2016

Tips for Creating a Winning Poster at SIGGRAPH 2016

Seungbae Bang is the 2015  first place winner of the SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition and recently sat down with SIGGRAPH to tell his story on how he created a winning Poster. SIGGRAPH 2016 (S2016): Tell us about yourself. Seungbae Bang (SB): I am a Ph.D. student...

Star Wars: A Look Back with ILM Veteran Jeff Light

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...

SIGGRAPHITTI Issue 3: Emerging Technologies, Art Papers, Production Sessions, and Industrial Light & Magic’s 40th Anniversary

SIGGRAPHITTI Issue 3: Emerging Technologies, Art Papers, Production Sessions, and Industrial Light & Magic’s 40th Anniversary

Light Pattern © 2015 Daniel Temkin SIGGRAPHITTI is the official newsletter for the North American SIGGRAPH Conference, an annual five-day interdisciplinary educational experience of the latest computer graphics and interactive techniques. Sign up to receive...

Academy Sci-Tech Awards: The SIGGRAPH Connection

Academy Sci-Tech Awards: The SIGGRAPH Connection

From the facial animation heralded in "Benjamin Button," to the destruction of cities in "Transformers," and the sculptural artistry of the characters in "Pacific Rim" and the "Avengers," much of the effects on screen are computer generated -- and this year's...

‘Avatar’ Secrets Revealed at SIGGRAPH 2010

(Chicago, IL) - SIGGRAPH 2010 features multiple Production Sessions that will reveal the secrets of "Avatar", including stereoscopic filmmaking and visual effects. Two visual effects companies that contributed to the making of "Avatar", New Zealand-based Weta Digital...