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…
The VFX and Filming of Twisters Date: Wednesday, August 14th, 5-7pm PT Location: Online Tickets: $15 (free for members) Take a look at the filming and visual effects of the new movie Twisters with Production Supervisor Ben Snow, who was a digital artist on the original film 28 years ago, Read more…
New Kingdom: Wētā FX Returns to the Planet of the Apes Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2024 Location: Online In this presentation from Wētā FX VFX supervisor Erik Winquist, you’ll hear how Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is the amazing result of seven years of technical advancements since the Read more…
Date and time: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 · 5:00 – 6:30pm PDT
Location: Online
Swing behind-the-scenes of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse with Inklines Technical Lead Edmond-Boulet-Gilly, Animator Mònica Eggert Roig, and FX Artist Sharon Snow of Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Since the debut of its signature comic-book style in 2018, the Spider-Verse films have been carving out an identity for experimental animation in the mainstream industry. This lecture will spotlight the cutting-edge developments that break the barriers between 2D and 3D- in both FX and animation. Come get to know the minds behind the mask.
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Happy new year, we are happy to start off 2024 with a screening of the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival at Pixar studios. After so many virtual events this is an actual IRL event. This is everyone’s favorite event at national SIGGRAPH every year, the quality of the films is just outstanding, Read more…
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 · 6pm PDT Visual Effects Supervisor Sanjay Bakshi will share a behind the scenes view into the making of the Pixar film Elemental. About this event In Elemental, the characters are classical elements: Fire, Water, Earth and Air. So how do you approach turning fire and Read more…
Date and time: Wednesday, June 7, 2023 · 6 – 8pm PDTLocation: Online About this event DreamWorks Animation VFX Supervisor Mark Edwards will break down the iconic scene introducing the Wolf character. Learn what inspired key moments of the sequence, hear why adding easter eggs and callbacks was important to Read more…
Paul Debevec presents “The Full Spectrum of Virtual Production” to the San Francisco Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH on May 17, 2023. Date and time: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 · 6 – 9pm PDT Location: Online Today’s virtual production stages surround actors with the light of millions of LEDs, creating real-world Read more…