Fewer art forms have evolved more rapidly in recent years than computer animation, and nowhere will that be more obvious than at the SIGGRAPH 2010 Conference and Computer Animation Festival, which takes place at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 25-29.
The 37th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques is the annual showcase event for SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques), which expects to draw about 25,000 computer animation professionals to the event. The conference, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), will include five days of educational workshops as well as a three-day commercial exhibition and a job fair.
A centerpiece of the conference is the Computer Animation Festival, whose more than 100 screenings include work from feature films such as Avatar, Alice in Wonderland, Sherlock Holmes and Prince of Persia; music videos from acts such as Gorillaz; commercials from IBM, Pepsi and Mercedes-Benz; and about 50 short film and Chinese animation entries. The festival, which exhibits works from the world's most innovative and accomplished digital film and video creators, has been an official qualifying event for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Animated Short Film award since 1999. Computer animation junkies can buy festival tickets separately if they don’t plan to go to the rest of the show.
Keynote speakers include Jim Morris, General Manager and Executive Vice President of Production at Pixar Animation Studios, and Don Marinelli, Executive Producer at Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center. The conference will also be giving out achievement awards for 10 categories – including computer animation shorts, music videos, TV and Web commercials and visual effects for short- and live-action feature films – while organizers will host screenings, panels and animation clinics.
Registration prices range from $150 for a one-day “basic conference” pass for existing SIGGRAPH members to $1,220 for the full conference for non-members. Passes to just the Computer Animation Festival cost $175 for SIGGRAPH members, $200 for non-members, $150 for students and $50 for single-day Festival passes.
Please go to www.siggraph.org for more information.
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