http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:31:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Live Blogging Starts Tuesday, Aug. 12 The editors of Digital Content Producer and millimeter would like to welcome you to our third annual BlogLive @ Siggraph, sponsored by HP. We’re on our way to Los Angeles to cover the evolving show, which offers timely, engaging educational experiences presented by the most ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2008/07/10/welcome-to-bloglive-siggraph-2008/ AMD has struggled over the past year with production and marketing snafus, and some worried that the well-regarded ATI FireGL series cards would be in trouble. After all, AMD, which spent $5.4 billion to buy graphics card maker ATI last year, had long-time ATI CEO Dave Orton leave the ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2007/08/09/ati-firegl-cards-are-back/ Why does a visual effects company sell plug ins? Frantic Films made their reputation with the huge bullet-time shot on Swordfish and their Emmy-nominated work on Storm of the Century. More recently: the VES-nominated Superman Returns and Poseidon, and currently Eric Brevig‘s Journey to the Center of the Earth in ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2007/08/09/ya-gotta-love-chris-bond/ IBM originally envisioned the new HC-10 Workstation Blade as a workstation replacement, say IBM's Dave Laux and George Dolbier. It‘s a high density server with embedded GPU acceleration. “We found it also worked incredibly well as a headless render node," Laux says a little wryly. Isn't interesting when hardware reveals ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2007/08/09/gpu-accelerated-servers/ GrimagePut any object into the interaction space and it is intantaneously modeled in 3D and injected into a virtual world. http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2007/08/09/e-tech-photo-gallery/ With due credit to the product engineers both at the chip and workstation level, and to the demands of ISVs, as I look around Siggraph I also give credit for all this hardware innovation to the users. It was user standards and pushback that truly drove the remarkable dialog in ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2007/08/09/a-thought-about-tools/ Lots of video game-playing action at the Digital Media Art College Booth (551), where players battled with plastic guitars to the Toadies Possum King in a game called Guitar Hero. The guitars, outfitted with plastic colored buttons, were used to knock out riffs which displayed in sequence on the screen. ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2007/08/09/guitar-hero/ Some sightings: 60 Dell Precision dual core Intel-Xeon based systems in the Guerilla Studio. At the Autodesk users' group Monday night (dual quad cores). At the Softimage users' group Tuesday night (same). At the Autodesk gathering--which was big, I'm going to say easily over 1000, but I'm not good at counting heads. ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2007/08/09/dell-at-siggraph/ First, in case you don't know what Fjorg! is here's the blurb: The world‘s first international FJORG! competition is an “iron animator” event at SIGGRAPH 2007 in which 16 competing teams from around the world will have 32 hours to create the world‘s best character-driven animation in front of a ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2007/08/09/art-institute-rocks-fjorg/ Last night may have marked the premiere party for Siggraph '07. Softimage, Vicon, and Pendulum--along with mova--held their celebration for the Siggraph community at the San Diego House of Blues. Titled Visual Fxtasy, the event was the place to be, as marked by the nearly 1,000 attendees who lined up ... http://blog.digitalcontentproducer.com/siggraph/2007/08/09/the-high-life-at-the-house-of-blues/