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A SIGGRAPH 2005 Agenda

by Robin.Rowe@MovieEditor.com
6-19-05

Items in bold take preference.

Sunday, July 31, 2005

• "Madagascar:" Bringing a New Visual Style to the Screen
  Half-Day, Sunday, 31 July, 1:45 - 5:30 pm
  Hall A
  Level: Beginning
  New insights into the creative and technical thought processes required to evolve a new look for a CG movie. Highlights include how moving away from stylized realism required rethinking the creative process, development methods, and technologies, plus a comparison of the approaches that worked with approaches that did not.
  Prerequisites - A basic understanding of the principles of computer graphics and 3D animation. For best results, attendees should have seen the animated feature "Madagascar."
  Intended Audience - Attendees who are interested in the technical aspects of production of 3D animated feature films and who have a basic understanding of computer-generated animation.
  Co-Organizers
  Philippe Gluckman
  DreamWorks Animation
  Denise Minter
  DreamWorks Animation
  Lecturers
  Kendal Cronkhite
  Rex Grignon
  Milana Huang
  Ewan Johnson
  Janet Lavin
  Scott Singer
  Rob Vogt
  DreamWorks Animation

Monday, August 1, 2005

• Papers - Hardware Rendering
  Monday, 1 August
  8:30 - 10:15 am
  Hall B
  Session Chair: Hanspeter Pfister, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)
  *RPU: A Programmable Ray Processing Unit for Realtime Ray Tracing
  Sven Woop
  Jörg Schmittler
  Philipp Slusallek
  Universität des Saarlandes
  *User-Configurable Automatic Shader Simplification
  Fabio Pellacini
  Cornell University
  *A Relational Debugging Engine for the Graphics Pipeline
  Implementation Sketch
  Nathaniel Duca
  Krzysztof Niski
  Jonathan Bilodeau
  Matthew Bolitho
  Yuan Chen
  Jonathan Cohen
  Johns Hopkins University
  *Lpics: A Hybrid Hardware-Accelerated Relighting Engine for Computer Cinematography
  Fabio Pellacini
  Kiril Vidimce
  Aaron Lefohn
  Alex Mohr
  Mark Leone
  John Warren
  Pixar Animation Studios
• BOF Blender Foundation: Community Meeting
  Los Angeles Convention Center
  Room 505
  10 - 11 am
  Ton Rooosendaal
  ton (at) blender.org
• BOF Blender Foundation: Artist Workshop
  Los Angeles Convention Center
  Room 505
  11 am - 12:30 pm
  Ton Rooosendaal
  ton (at) blender.org
• George Lucas: A Keynote Q&A With the Father of Digital Cinema
  Monday, 1 August 1:15 - 3:15 pm
  Hall A
  World-renowned director, producer, and screenwriter George Lucas presents the SIGGRAPH 2005 keynote address:
  Bruce Carse, who has produced, hosted, and moderated over 100 live events for the professional filmmaking community in the past three years, moderates the keynote session. Immediately before the keynote address, ACM SIGGRAPH presents three awards: the Computer Graphics Achievement Award, the Steven Anson Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics, and the Significant New Researcher Award.
• BOF Blender Foundation: Coder Workshop
  Los Angeles Convention Center
  Room 505
  1:30 - 3 pm
  Ton Rooosendaal
  ton (at) blender.org
• BOF Blender Foundation: Verse
  Los Angeles Convention Center
  Room 505
  3 - 4 pm
  Ton Rooosendaal
  ton (at) blender.org
• Taxonomy of Digital Creatures: Interpreting Character Designs as Computer Graphics Techniques
  Tutorial, Monday, 1 August, 3:45 - 5:30 pm
  Room 515A
  Level: Beginning
  The process of developing digital creatures from concept to the screen is presented as a series of decision points. The focus is on classifying issues to allow design and performance requirements to drive the techniques employed in execution of the final product.
  Prerequisites - Experience with animation, character modeling, and character set-up is recommended, but not required.
  Intended Audience - Animators and character designers.
  Organizer -Tim McLaughlin, Industrial Light + Magic
• Open Source 2005 and Beyond: Thriving Despite the DMCA and Patent Threats to Linux
• Tutorial, Monday, 1 August, 3:45 - 5:30 pm
  Room 502B
  Level: Beginning
  This tutorial focuses on issues confronting computer graphics designers and other software developers. The parameters of intellectual property risk, applicable rules, and the possible future repercussions of using open-source libraries are addressed from the viewpoint of how to make prudent choices in advancing your business or research.
  Prerequisites - Interest in the issues surrounding open source, whether you are pro or con.
  Intended Audience - Software developers, video producers, hardware designers, software producers and sellers, academic researchers, students, company owners, investors, and attorneys.
  Organizer
  Robert P. Cogan
  Nath & Associates
• BOF Blender Foundation: Demos and Art Show
  Los Angeles Convention Center
  Room 505
  4 - 6 pm
  Ton Rooosendaal
  ton (at) blender.org
• BOF Visual Effects Society Meeting
  Los Angeles Convention Center
  Room 506
  4 - 6 pm
  Eric Roth
  Eric (at) visualeffectssociety.com

Tuesday, August 2, 2005

• From Mocap to Movie: The Making of "The Polar Express"
  Half-Day, Tuesday, 2 August, 8:30 am - 12:15 pm
  Hall B
  Level: Beginning
  Supervisors present an in-depth look at the making of "The Polar Express," including innovations in on-stage motion capture, virtual camera systems, animation, fx, and rendering, which contributed to the film' s unique look and style.
  Prerequisites - Familiarity with basic 3D techniques.
  Intended Audience - 3D animation professionals and those interested 3D animated films.
  Organizer
  Rob Bredow
  Sony Pictures Imageworks
  Lecturers
  David Schaub
  Rob Engle
  Daniel Kramer
  Albert Hastings
  Sony Pictures Imageworks
  Special Session - Artists and technicians from Sony Pictures Imageworks also present a Special Session on how they transformed the theatrical release into a 3D stereoscopic adventure, Thursday, 4 August, 11:30 am - 1:15 pm, at the IMAX Theater at the California Science Center.
  Details
• Exhibition 10-6pm
• Panel - The Open-Source Movement and the Graphics Community: How Can Open-Source, Third Party, and Proprietary Software Models Coexist?
  Tuesday, 2 August, 1:45 - 3:30 pm
  Room 502B
  In recent years, the open-source movement has increased dramatically. Harnessing the power of thousands of developers and testers has proven successful, to varying degrees, in developing operating systems, graphics applications, and web tools, including Linux, POV-Ray, Blender, Gimp, and Apache. In this session, developers of open-source software, in-house proprietary software, and commercial software, and practitioners who encounter all kinds of software discuss whether the open-source model is relevant and useful to the graphics community. Does the model of proprietary application research, development, and usage serve the industry better? Or will commercial facilities continue to primarily choose off-the-shelf solutions? Can all models work together?
  Moderator
  Gil Irizarry
  Conoa, Inc.
  Panelists
  Florian Kainz
  Industrial Light & Magic
  James Mainard
  DreamWorks Animation
  Daniel Maskit
  Digital Domain
  Ton Roosendaal
  Blender Foundation
  William Schroeder
  Kitware, Inc.
• Papers - Texture Synthesis
  Tuesday, 2 August
  1:45 - 3:30 pm
  Petree Hall C
  Session Chair: Heung-Yeung Shum, Microsoft Research Asia
  *Parallel Controllable Texture Synthesis
  Sylvain Lefebvre
  Hugues Hoppe
  Microsoft Research
  *Texture Design Using a Simplicial Complex of Morphable Textures
  Wojciech Matusik
  Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)
  Matthias Zwicker
  Frédo Durand
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  *Texture Optimization for Example-Based Synthesis
  Vivek Kwatra
  Irfan Essa
  Aaron F. Bobick
  Nipun Kwatra
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  *Wavelet Noise
  Rob Cook
  Tony DeRose
  Pixar Animation Studios
• The Invisible Actor
  Half-Day, Tuesday, 2 August, 1:45 - 5:30 pm
  Room 515A
  Level: Beginning - An examination of the role of staging and composition in computer-animated films. Using examples from "Madagascar," the course explores the core elements of composition and how they are used to create a visual style.
  Prerequisites - None. A basic understanding of the terminology and principles of computer graphics and 3D animation is helpful, but not required.
  Intended Audience - Animators, artists, and other attendees who are interested in the artistic aspects of visual storytelling.
  Co-Organizers
  Ewan Johnson
  Denise Minter
  DreamWorks Animation
• BOF CinePaint
  Los Angeles Convention Center
  Room 506
  4 - 5 pm
  Robin Rower
  rower (at) movieeditor.com
• BOF High-Dyamic-Range Imagery
  Los Angeles convention Center
  Room 506
  5 - 6 pm
  Alan Chalmers
  Alan.chalmers (at) bris.ac.uk

Wednesday, August 3, 2005

• At LinuxMovies.org Conference

Thursday, August 4, 2005

• GPU Shading and Rendering
  Full-Day, Tuesday, 2 August, 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
  Petree Hall D
  Level: Intermediate
  Real-time programmable shading can now be experienced everywhere from game consoles to the highest-end PCs. This updated course brings together leading researchers from industry and academia to present the foundations of hardware shading, the latest developments, and how shading hardware is increasingly used for non-real-time rendering.
  Prerequisites - Working knowledge of a modern real-time graphics API such as OpenGL or Direct3D. Familiarity with the concepts of programmable shading and shading languages.
  Intended Audience - Practitioners and software developers using or intending to use graphics hardware for shading.
  Organizer
  Marc Olano
  University of Maryland, Baltimore County
  Lecturers
  Avi Bleiweiss
  ATI Research
  Larry Gritz
  NVIDIA Corporation
  John C. Hart
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Mark Kilgard
  NVIDIA Corporation
  Michael McCool
  University of Waterloo
  Pedro Sander
  ATI Research
• Thursday, 4 August, 11:30 am - 1:15 pm, POLAR EXPRESS 3D at the IMAX Theater at the California Science Center.
• Exhibitor - GPU Programming Exposed: The Naked Truth Behind NVIDIA's Demos
  NVIDIA Corporation
  Thursday, 4 August, 1 - 3 pm
  Room 404A
  This talk presents a cutting-edge collection of techniques and visual effects from NVIDIA that give you the knowledge you need to push the visual limits of your projects. Exclusively, for the first time ever, go behind the scenes of the latest stunning real-time effects as the NVIDIA demo team dissects their most recent demo suite, including real-time translucency, improved skin and hair rendering, innovative dynamic lighting effects, shadowing techniques, and much more. Next, programmers and 3D artists alike learn how to create real-world implementations of GPU effects for gaming, CAD, and image processing.
  Bea Langsdorf
  NVIDIA Corporation
  2701 San Tomas Expressway
  Santa Clara, California 95050 USA
  blangsdorf (at) nvidia.com
• BOF The Open Source RenderMan Pipeline-K-3D and Aqsis
  Los Angeles Convention Center
  Room 506
  10 am - 2 pm
  Timothy Shead
  tshead (at) k-3d.com
• Exhibition 10-5pm

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