Not much is known about he Anderson Printer before ILM purchased it from Paramount Pictures in 1975. It had been used for compositing for Cecil B DeMilles The Ten Commandments in 1956, and shots for Alfred Hichcock’s North By Northwest in 1959. The printer fell out of permanent use as the VistaVision format waned. VistaVision…
Check out the 2013 RTL! trailer featuring some of the mind-blowing presentations from last years show, including Square Enix, AMD, BeautyPi and NaughtyDog. Be a part of the show! Every year since it’s inception, RTL! has featured technology from independent artists and engineers alongside products from billion dollar companies; it’s the diversity and quality of content that…
Celebrating its 40th year, the world’s most innovative exploration of computer-generated animation and visual effects will be on display at SIGGRAPH 2013 in Anaheim, California this summer. The four-day, international event (21-25 July) spotlights the most prestigious innovators of technical and artistic short films. The festival showcases everything from student films to blockbuster visual effects and mainstream…
If you’re schooling in, or just interested in computer graphics and currently a student I can’t recommend this program enough. The SVs make SIGGRAPH happen and I’ve never met one who didn’t have an amazing week. But don’t take my word for it…
From Flying to MMO, Action, Adventure and more, Star Wars Games have covered most genres. And now, for the first time they are all covered (from 1982-2008) in one video. Sit back and enjoy this epic collection of the Star Wars Retrospectives thanks to GameTrailers.com
A few weeks back I shared a link to the Foundations of Computer Graphics course being offered free at Berkley. Well, the Awesomeness that is Udacity are also offering an introductory course to 3D Computer Graphics, with a focus on Interactive Rendering. About the course CS291 will teach you about the basic principles of 3D…
This years SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival comes to the Bay via the SIGGRAPH San Francisco chapter. It will be hosted on Friday 7th December at the Adobe offices in town. For more information or to reserve tickets check out the chapter website. Catching the hilights of the largest Computer Graphics festival in the world –…
Imagine if Berkeley decided to give completely free access to their online certified Foundations of Computer Graphics course… About the course CS184.1x teaches the Foundations of Computer Graphics. Students will make images of 3D scenes in real-time, and with offline raytracing. The course runs for 6 weeks and consists of four segments; each segment includes…
Yup, the latest super secret project from the ranch was announced today; StarWars Detours. “Today at Star Wars Celebration VI, Robot Chicken creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich, along with their collaborator Todd Grimes, unveiled footage from their new animated series Star Wars: Detours. The series takes place between between Episode III and IV, and of course, Green, Senreich and Grimes have…
Okay, so I’m a little sad to be handing this amazing program off. Real-Time Live! has been an incredible part of SIGGRAPH to be involved with, from technical and show direction, through marketing, jurying, content outreach, logistics, donations, hardware, branding and social media. Not to mention the awesome people I got to work with. The program was set in…