How we draw pictures (within the limitations of human vision) Wednesday, December 16, 2026, 5pm PST Location: Online Tickets available soon! Most people learn to draw casually at an early age, but learning to create accurate observational drawings usually requires extensive practice. Why is it so hard? I’ll describe how Read more
Tuesday, November 10, 6-9 pmGray Area2665 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110 We are very excited to present a first-of-its-kind performance event at Gray Area in San Francisco! The San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Los Angeles chapters of ACM SIGGRAPH will jointly host a live staging of Uncanny Alley: A Read more
Thursday, September 176pm reception, 7pm screening and presentation Location: The New Parkway Theater (474 24th Street, Oakland, CA 94612) Join the creative team behind the animated short Dear Upstairs Neighbors for a screening and deep dive into new, artist-driven, AI-assisted animation workflows. Learn how this crew of 45 artists and Read more
Join legendary Disney animator and director Aaron Blaise as he takes you behind the scenes of his animated short, Snow Bear. In this session, Aaron will share the creative spark that inspired the project, walk through the development process from early concept to finished film, and offer a look at the realities of distributing an independent animated short in today’s landscape.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 5pm – 6:30pm PST Location: Online Wētā FX VFX Supervisors Guy Williams and Jo Davison will discuss the VFX for Pocket Universe, battling a Kaiju and re-creating Metropolis. Superman: Harnessing Numeric Power for Cinematic Magic Superman marks the third feature film, and fifth project on which Read more
Date and time: Thursday, August 7, 2025, 5 – 6:30pm PDT Project KARA’s mission was to remaster an aging game using AI-driven pipelines, assessing the viability of these technologies to accelerate workflows while maintaining high-quality results.In this session, we’ll unveil our findings, share real-world results, and discuss the future trajectory Read more
Iñigo Quilez: Unlocking Creativity with Signed Distance Fields Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 5pm-6:30pm Pacific Time We’ll talk of my vision for a world post-polygon, where production of 3D content is less labor intensive and technical, and more creative than what we use today in traditional pipelines. About the Speaker Inigo Read more
Daryl Anselmo GenAI Cookery: From Demoscene to Mainstream Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 5pm Pacific Time In this candid session, Art Director and Creative Technologist Daryl Anselmo takes us through an unfiltered journey navigating the dark arts of the rapidly evolving GenAI landscape, with roots in the rebellious hacker spirit of Read more
The San Francisco SIGGRAPH Chapter is excited to present the SIGGRAPH 2024 Computer Animation Festival’s Electronic Theater program, in person on the big screen at Pixar! See the trailer video below for a sample of the amazing variety of films in this program. We’ll share more details shortly, as well Read more
Transformers One – More than Meets the Eye Behind the scenes with the artists who helped put this origin story together. Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2024Time: 5pm PacificLocation: Online About the speakers: Sherry Hitch, Associate Visual Effects Supervisor, ILM: With a career span of nearly 30 years in visual effects, Read more