http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:46:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2008/08/16/siggraph-2008-caf-award-winners/ It was an exciting day when I found out that my short film "Distraxion" was going to be featured in the 2008 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival. I had spent the last two years bringing it to completion and I was constantly motivated by the goal of a screening at the ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2008/08/16/a-look-back-at-the-siggraph-caf-from-a-contributors-perspective/ As Siggraph 2008 winds down, it's time for me to take one last, brief mention of some of the more interesting technology and developments at the show. Be sure to read upcoming issues of millimeter and Digital Content Producer magazines for more in-depth information. While some may claim that there is ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2008/08/15/my-last-blog-for-siggraph-2008/ Siggraph 2008 drew to a close with a bang Thursday night as ILM hosted a screening of its new Star Wars: Clone Wars animated feature at the Nokia Theater following the final run of the Electronic Theater. The screening featured an intro with the film's director, Dave Filoni, being interviewed ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2008/08/15/bloglive-siggraph-2008-podcast-john-knoll/ Laptops are on track to soon replace desktop units as the most popular personal computer type. Over the past couple of years, more powerful mobile CPUs and GPUs have made lighter weight laptops prime candidates to become the machines of choice for pro graphics and NLE users too. While they didn’t ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2008/08/15/dells-future-on-the-road/ I'm sitting in the Electronic Theater with my old pal Dan Ochiva blogging on my iPhone. I mention this only to indicate how trippy it is to realize how fundamentally the world has changed with the technology revolution that entertains us and let's us communicate in new ways. The festival ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2008/08/14/a-new-world/ Unlike the slowly changing, monolithic market for CPUs, the development of graphics chips and cards looks chaotic, with chip designs, products, and companies coming in and out of the market at a near furious pace over the decades since the first graphics technology delivered in 1960. Over the past eight ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2008/08/14/gpu-throwdown/ The guys at Reallusion gave me a look at iClone3 a little while ago, as well as their philosophy that there is a market for "simple 3D" work and a merging of the ergonomics that video gamers are used to with the requirements and mindset that animators have. They call ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2008/08/14/simple-3d/ On the convergence trail once again this afternoon, I learned a bit of the Bunkspeed story (booth #311). What intrigues me most about the company's 3D rendering engine, created specifically for product designers and engineers (starting with the auto industry folks in 2002), is that it has potential to be ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2008/08/14/traveling-at-bunkspeed/ The Nokia Theater hosts the Siggraph Computer Animation Festival’s awards ceremony today at 3:45, when the winners of the Audience Award, the Student Prize, the Jury Award, and the Best of Show award will be announced. I’ve covered many of the films up for these awards in previous blogs. See ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2008/08/14/festival-awards-ceremony-preview/