The SIGGRAPH 2019 Computer Animation Festival features a selection of innovative animated short films and visual effects reels produced by professionals and students from around the world. These were originally shown as part of the SIGGRAPH 2019 Computer Animation Festival, a leading annual festival for the world’s most groundbreaking, accomplished, Read more…
Exploring the cinematic language of i2, we will cover it’s influences, motivations, and implementation in the movie. Together we will look at visual concept for the film, and then talk in detail about our methods for realizing those designs. Speaker: Erik Smitt Erik Smitt began his career at Pixar Animation Read more…
Health and creativity optimization via immersive technology and bioinformatics Hosted by SF ACM SIGGRAPH and the Manhattan Producers’ Alliance. A deep dive into connections between brain health, physical exercise and creative flow that result in an optimal human state. We present a fascinating discussion about how immersive technology can quantifiably Read more…
Art & Music by Google Brain Magenta: with David Ha and Adam Roberts We will be discussing our work on using deep learning to create methods that can generate art (sketches and music), and in creating these tools we explore how artists and musicians can use them in their Read more…
Dreamworks PipelineX is a unique approach to building a highly-scalable, multi-functional, and production-friendly feature animation pipeline on a core infrastructure comprised of microservices. We discuss basic service layer design as well as the benefits and challenges of moving decades-old production processes for an entire animation studio to a new, transactional pipeline Read more…
Creating a believable hero will propose some guidelines and approaches for game developers with a desire to create a hero that will feel real to the player. The discussion will cover a beginning to end process of creating a believable character and can apply to any style of art. The Read more…
This month the popular AR/VR format returns with guest speakers from Baobab and Meta Larry Cutler | Baobab What are the differences between making a VR animated experience and a 2D animated film? How do you create empathetic characters in VR? How do you direct the viewer’s eyes when Read more…
ILM Animation Supervisor Hal Hickel talks about the animation challenges in bringing the first stand-alone Star Wars film to the big screen. Hal Hickel joined Industrial Light & Magic in 1996 as an animator for The Lost World: Jurassic Park. On his next production, he was promoted to lead Read more…
Join us for our last SF SIGGRAPH event of 2016 for a look into the making of Pixar’s charming short “Piper” with guest speaker, Brett Levin. Brett works on technical art and software tools for animated films at Pixar. Most recently he supervised technical production for the Piper short. Prior Read more…
The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is the leading annual festival for the world’s most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators. An internationally recognized jury receives hundreds of submissions and presents the best work of the year in the two programs of the Computer Animation Festival: Daytime Selects and Read more…