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SIGGRAPH Asia Reveals Sessions, Speakers

October 9, 2012 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

The 2012 SIGGRAPH Asia event, set to take place in Singapore this November 28 thru December 1, will bring together leading names from the animation, graphics, digital art and tech worlds for a series of informative sessions and presentation. The Special Sessions will feature Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Paul Franklin (Double [...]

Best of the Brief-Attention-Span Theater

August 6, 2012 by Ellen Wolff No Comments divider image

An overview of the key award-winning shorts screening at the 2012 edition of SIGGRAPH’s Computer Animation Festival. During the 39th SIGGRAPH Conference in Los Angeles this summer, attendees will see lots of the high-end CG that animates today’s studio blockbusters. But when the lights dim for SIGGRAPH’s Computer Animation Festival [...]

SIGGRAPH Unveils Computer Animation Festival Winners

June 19, 2012 by Ramin Zahed 2 Comments divider image

The upcoming SIGGRAPH event has announced this year’s Computer Animation Festival winners. The event, which takes place August 5-9 at the L.A. Convention Center named its Best in Show, Jury Award, Best Student Project, and Well Told Fable Prize recipients. A total of 94 films will be shown during the [...]

SIGGRAPH 2012 Calls for Real-Time Content

February 28, 2012 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

CG animation confab SIGGRAPH 2012 is looking for cutting-edge Real-Time Live! content to be presented as part of this year’s prestigious Computer Animation Festival. Examples of accepted real-time simulations and graphics submissions include computer games, graphics & demos,  interactive animation, simulations & rendering techniques,  military, industrial or scientific visualizations  , research projects, r eal-time [...]

‘Luna’ Takes Top Prize at CA Shorts Festival

December 7, 2011 by Mercedes Milligan No Comments divider image

Canadian CG house Rainmaker Entertainment’s short Luna came out on top at the California International Shorts Festival (CISF), picking up its first major festival circuit win with the Best Animated Short honor and is set to screen at CISF this month. Inspired by an original in-house concept from producer Luke [...]

Your Essential SIGGRAPH ’11 Tip Sheet

August 7, 2011 by Ramin Zahed No Comments divider image

There are probably hundreds of good reasons why you should check out this year’s SIGGRAPH Expo in Vancouver (Aug. 7-11), but we want to make sure you don’t miss out on some of the big highlights. So, here’s a little list that you can tear out of the mag and [...]

SIGGRAPH Names Computer Animation Festival Winners

June 20, 2011 by Thomas J. McLean 1 Comment divider image

SIGGRAPH has announced the Computer Animation Festival’s Best in Show, Jury Award, and Best Student Project recipients for SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver, set for Aug. 7-11. A total of 77 films will be shown during the festival. Nominees were chosen by an expert panel of jury members from 891 submissions [...]

SIGGRAPH Asia Preps Papers, Prizes for 2010

November 30, 2010 by Thomas J. McLean No Comments divider image

South Korea is set to play host to more than 8,000 people from the computer animation and interactivity world by hosting SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 Dec. 15-18 in Seoul. The conference will screen more than 100 animations and present nearly 170 research papers, technical sketches and posters for discussion. The third [...]