The premier annual event 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 daily Animation Theaters and the Electronic Theater (matinée and evening shows). Selections include outstanding achievements in time-based art, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, and narrative shorts.

The Computer Animation Festival is recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival. Since 1999, several works originally presented in the Computer Animation Festival have been nominated for or have received a “Best Animated Short” Academy Award.

Animation Theaters

Sunday - Thursday, 5-9 August

Room 24 & 25

Electronic Theater

Monday - Wednesday, 6-8 August

San Diego Civic Theatre

1100 Third Avenue

For a video preview of this year’s Computer Animation Festival, click here.

The Siggraph 2007 Special Sessions take a behind the scenes look at some of the past year’s top animation and visual effects accomplishments for the feature film industry. Four different sessions will take place in the San Diego Convention Center, each focusing on a different film production–a lineup which includes: Happy Feet, Transformers, Shrek, and Spiderman 3.

For more information on time and locations, as well as more of an in-depth look at the specific topics covered, click here.

Read more about the making of Shrek 3 in Senior Editor Michael Goldman’s recent article in Millimeter here.

Learn more on the creation of Spiderman 3 in Goldman’s article Digital Acrobatics.

The SIGGRAPH Papers program is the premier international forum for disseminating new scholarly work in computer graphics. This year the Papers Committee accepted 108 papers, a new record. These papers span the core areas of modeling, animation, rendering, and imaging, but they also touch on related areas such as visualization, computer vision, human-computer interaction, and applications of computer graphics.

New for SIGGRAPH 2007

To promote a lively exchange of ideas during the Papers program, we are introducing a system of per-paper discussants. Each paper in the program will be allotted 25 minutes, 20 minutes for presentation and five minutes for discussion of the paper, with the session chair serving as discussant.

For a video preview of this year’s Papers, click here.

For a list of Papers presentation times, click here.