This in-depth session on how to make shaders as fast as possible on mobile platforms explains basic graphics optimization techniques for mobile GPUs, Unity’s rendering and lighting pipeline, and how to use it effectively. For programmers and technical artists.

The first half of this workshop focuses on navigating the user interface, layout, basic tools, and panels in Maya. The second half focuses on how to use simple primitives to create projects and basic objects, and how to place objects in a scene.

Did you ever dream of having your fashion design on a body of your own creation walking the fashion runway? In this class, which uses the Digital Clothing Suite software, human character and pattern data are given to the attendees so that they can learn how to seam patterns, simulate draping of the garment on a walking model, apply and manipulate different images to generate their own textile design, and save the final result into an animation clip. Your clips will be shown in The Studio during the conference. Conference attendees will vote on their favorite designs and the best designer will be awarded a six month free trial of the Digital Clothing Suite at the end of the conference. Participants are welcome to bring images/graphics to use for their custom textile design and to save their work on a flash drive to take home with them.

This session gives attendees all the tools they need to move their real-time art from their 3D app of choice into Unity and deploy it to a web browser, mobile, device, or stand-alone device in simple, artist-friendly steps. No programming knowledge required.

An overview of the basic function of timeline-based animation using Adobe After Effects for motion graphics. Topics include: interface, workflow, using the timeline, layers, integration with Photoshop basic type, and object animation.

This one-day event brings together the leaders who have contributed to the direction, production, and evolution of the computer graphics community to elucidate the elements of finance, strategy, culture, and creativity. Separate admission fee required. Not included in any other SIGGRAPH 2011 registration categories. Attendance for this event is very limited.

A robust solution for integrating photon beams into PhotoRealistic RenderMan for the animated feature "Tangled".

A method to effectively importance sample the single scattering integral in homogeneous participating media from point lights and area lights of arbitrary shapes.

A method for efficient ray tracing of heterogeneous participating media using ray marching by decoupling the lighting calculations from the sampling of volume properties.

A new demand-driven volume rendering approach for extremely large electron microscopy (EM) volume data that for the first time allows neurobiologists to view terabyte-sized EM volumes interactively, without pre-computing a 3D multi-resolution representation beforehand.

Modular Radiance Transfer is a recent technique that computes approximate direct-to-indirect transfer by warping and combining transport from a small library of simple shapes. This talk discusses implementation issues that arose when scaling the algorithm from mobile devices to high-end GPUs.

An overview of a systems pipeline for high-dynamic-range video capture, reconstruction, and modeling of real-world scenes with strong spatial variations in the lighting environment, which enables photo-realistic rendering of synthetic objects placed in the scene.

A simple and efficient method for pixel-scale occlusion culling in arbitrarily complex scenes.

This solution to the ill-posed, non-uniform point-spread-function (PSF) estimation problem transforms it into a well-posed image-registration problem that estimates homographies representing the motions of camera shakes in 3D.

Movies captured at the equivalent of a trillion frames per second show the motion of light pulses through scenes, bouncing off walls and getting trapped inside fruits due to sub-surface scattering.

Display pixel caching fills empty borders that occur when videos are displayed on a screen with mismatching aspect ratios and/or resolutions with spatially and temporally consistent information while preserving the original video format. It merges the motion information from subsequent frames to generate high-resolution panoramas in a consistent manner.

A device-independent imaging system for accurately capturing and faithfully reproducing colors.

Presented by David Attenborough, "Who do you think you really are?" is an interactive film that uses cutting-edge technology, including location-based augmented reality and real-time audience participation, to take audiences on an immersive, interactive journey into their evolutionary past.

Google Body provides an intuitive 3D context for learning and discussing human anatomy on a browser, smart phone or tablet. It allows the user to peel away layers of anatomy, rotate and zoom, navigate, and search, all without a plug-in because of the WebGL standard and efficient data transmission.

This novel algorithm to interactively compute indirect illumination is based on a filtered voxel octree representation of the scene used as a proxy for lighting information and coupled with an approximate voxel cone tracing that allows a fast estimation of the visibility and incoming energy.

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From Dust is a new game for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC developed at Ubisoft Montpellier. It features a fully dynamic world where sand, water, lava, and vegetation are constantly evolving and ruled by a realistic simulation.

An interactive desktop GPU ray tracer for large models composed of several hundred million polygons.

This talk summarizes the components of an extremely fast fluid-simulation framework for animated special effects, including the specific numerical methods used to achieve high performance and good visual quality, and the setup and control framework that allowed artists to work efficiently at high resolution.

Exploding a super hero in DreamWorks Animation's “Megamind” was a large-scale task. This talk presents solutions to some of the technical hurdles and the collaborative work flow to that facilitated them.

How and why Animal Logic created Snap,a grid-based simulation and volumetric rendering framework used in "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" and "Sucker Punch".

Practical techniques for simulating fluid dynamics and occlusion in a dynamic 2D environment, utilizing PlayStation 3 SPUs to achieve 60fps at 1080p in PixelJunk Shooter 2.

This talk discusses implementation of the occlusion culling system used in Alan Wake and presents details on how the system efficiently supports shadow-caster culling for dynamic light sources in large environments.

A new solution and approach to culling complex game scenes on parallel architectures at high performance.

KIllzone 3 features complex occluded environments. To cull non-visible geometry early in the frame, the game uses PlayStation 3 SPUs to rasterize a conservative depth buffer and perform fast synchronous occlusion queries against it. This talk presents an overview of the approach and key lessons learned during its development.

This novel content creation framework, consisting of Guerrilla's own game-rendering engine embedded inside Autodesk Maya, achieves high-fidelity previews of assets while preserving flexibility, so work can continue during the preview.