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SIGGRAPH 2007 — SAN DIEGO, CA (August 6, 2007) - Duiker Research Corp., a California-based innovator in imaging and color tools for motion pictures. is announcing Color Symmetry, a suite of plug-ins that for the first time allows film “looks” to be easily emulated and previewed within a wide array of animation, graphics and effects packages. Color Symmetry lets companies handle color accurately and consistently across mediums, applications, platforms and even facilities. Color Symmetry additionally helps companies build robust color pipelines to support complex feature film projects right out of the box. more…
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San Diego - Aug. 6, 2007 - NaturalMotion Ltd., developers of the highly-acclaimed euphoria and endorphin 3D animation technologies, today announced that Red 5 Studios has added morpheme to its game development pipeline. Chosen for its intuitive graphical user interface and ability to increase collaboration between animators and programmers, Red 5 Studios is using morpheme for an unannounced next generation game title. morpheme is robust middleware designed to give developers and animators unprecedented creative control over the look of their final in-game animation by allowing them to author and preview blends, blend trees and transition graphs in real time. NaturalMotion will highlight morpheme during SIGGRAPH 2007, booth number 603. more…
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Previously available only on Linux, Massive Academy Award-Winning, AI Driven Animation System Now Available to a Host of New Customers
San Diego, CA, SIGGRAPH CONFERENCE (August 6, 2007)-Massive Software today announced availability of Massive, the artificial intelligence (AI) driven animation system, on the Windows platform. In its newly announced Version 3.0, available both on Linux and Windows, Massive delivers more power with dynamic hair and fur, lanes, layer simulations, subdivision surfaces, improved dynamics and more. more…
For the third year in a row, the Siggraph Blog will provide insight and perspective from some of the students in our industry. Winners of the HP/Saytek competitions for The Art Institutes, five different students will be adding their thoughts on this year’s show in San Diego–they are: (Animation Contest winners) Craig Cesareo and Dennis Flath; (Art Institutes interactive game developers) Benjamin Braman, Shawn White, and Richard Matey.
The Art Institutes
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SIGGRAPH 2007 announced today the inclusion of an exclusive preview of “Beowulf”, groundbreaking director Robert Zemeckis’ unique vision of the “Beowulf” saga, in this year’s Computer Animation Festival‘s Electronic Theater taking place at the 34th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 5-9 August 2007 in San Diego, California, USA.
“In an Electronic Theater filled with truly the best of the best in each category, ‘Beowulf‘ is on the absolute cutting edge of what is being produced today,” said Paul Debevec, SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival Chair from the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies. “This year’s show weaves together amazing visuals from numerous disciplines into a single mind-altering experience.” more…
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Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK), today launched Autodesk Toxik 2008, the latest version of its desktop software for feature film procedural compositing. Toxik has shaped numerous blockbuster films, including Pirates of the Caribbean: At World‘s End, Apocalypto and The Fountain. Designed for visual effects artists, Toxik 2008 combines an extensive creative toolset with real-time, interactive compositing of high-dynamic-range imagery (HDRI). more…
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SeeFile and Intelligent Gadgets Collaborate at Siggraph 2007
Complete Collaboration Bundle, Including Software Packages, Server and 1 Terabyte of Storage Hardware, Priced at $1,995
LOS ANGELES, CA and Boston MA - August 1, 2007 - Intelligent Gadgets (www.syncvue.com), the creators of advanced collaborative digital media review and approval tools, and SeeFile (www.seefile.com), a developer of web server software for sharing media files, today announced the two companies are joining forces at Siggraph 2007 in San Diego (August 7 - 9) to demonstrate the benefits of a combined video-enabled collaborative review and approval system. During the conference, the bundled solution will be demonstrated at the SeeFile booth, and will be available for immediate purchase. more…
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During SIGGRAPH 2007, NVIDIA (booth # 513) a recognized leader in programmable graphics processor technologies will usher in the era of “personal supercomputing” with NVIDIA® Tesla™, the company‘s new line of processors for high-performance computing coupled with the latest NVIDIA® Quadro® professional graphics solutions.
With Tesla, computations that previously took hours, days or even weeks are now taking only minutes and in some cases computing in real time - achieving performance improvements that are 45 to 415 times faster than traditional processors. more…
Universal Pictures‘ Evan Almighty was designed to have visual effects of mythic proportions, and a raft of houses—including the big facilities Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) and Rhythm & Hues (R&H)—contributed to this Noah‘s Ark comedy. But alongside R&H‘s photoreal CG animals and ILM‘s flood simulation was an interesting contribution from the Los Angeles-based shop TeamWorks Digital. With its veteran Visual Effects Supervisor David Allen at the helm, TeamWorks temporarily set up shop at Universal Studios to wrangle disparate digital elements in several sequences. One of those sequences included a climactic scene that was added to the film well into postproduction. To achieve it, TeamWorks used an approach that Allen considers “postviz.” To read more, click here.
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.
