Come and enjoy a selection of state-of-the art animation films from the best French schools and artists! A selection by Annie Dissaux - AFCA. Networking opportunities after the session.

This talk explains how Blue Sky Studios created iterative, procedurally arranged tile mosaics in the sidewalks and streets of Rio de Janeiro. The was designed to be highly directable. It had to be automated yet nimble enough to achieve evolving production goals.

This algorithm can automatically convert normal map to displacement map to reduce the cost of creating tessellated 3D game assets.

Originally invented for offline rendering, this technique for rendering per-face texture-mapping datasets in real-time on commodity Direct3D 11 hardware eliminates the texture-unwrap step of the art creation process while producing an image that avoids texture discontinuities frequently found in models.

Building upon previous work on dual quaternion skinning, and with the introduction of a new way to represent tangent frames (QTangent), this talk presents improvements to quality, performance, and memory footprint of skinned geometry achieved during development of the Crysis franchise.

Color is mysterious, emotional, enigmatic. Opinions are strong about what they mean, or do not mean. Theses have been written about the emotional significance of color in film, psychology, and clothing. This course discusses storytelling choices in fine art, illustration, and films (animated and live action), and how color selection supports the story. Topics include color rules, when and how to break them, and the differences between the analog and digital palettes. The course includes plenty of visuals and is appropriate for everyone interested in color.

COURSE SCHEDULE

2 pm
Introduction and Overview: The Hidden Influence of Color
Altieri & Walvoord

2:10 pm
Creating a Design Universe in Film; Story, Emotions, and Art
Altieri

2:30 pm
"Kung Fu Panda 2" Color Overview
Walvoord

2:45 pm
Analysis of Color in Animated Films
Altieri

3 pm
KFP2 Techniques: Color Supporting the Story
Walvoord

3:15 pm
Questions and Answers

This is a hands-on workshop on digital fine art creation and perfecting your final print.

Stephen Burns, the author of CS5 Trickery & FX takes you on a journey of creative possibilities to fine art creation. He shares digital creative techniques and how to optimize your imagery for successful final output. Jack Duganne, the originator of the printmaking term giclée, summarizes the process of digitally printing your final version.

How to creatively integrate 3D models into Photoshop CS5 Extended to create concept art. This session focuses on how to import, texture, and build a mate painting with third-party 3D models in CS5.

Advances in real-time graphics research and the ever-increasing power of mainstream GPUs and consoles continue to generate an explosion of innovative algorithms suitable for fast, interactive rendering of complex and engaging virtual worlds. Every year, the latest video games employ a vast variety of sophisticated algorithms to produce ground-breaking 3D rendering that pushs the visual boundaries and interactive experience of rich environments.

This course is the next installment in the established series of SIGGRAPH courses on real-time rendering. It summarizes the best graphics practices and research from the game-development community and provides practical and production-proven algorithms. The first part of the course includes speakers from the makers of several award-winning games, such as Electronic Arts (Vancouver, Montréal, and Black Box), Treyarch, Sony Online, and CCP Games. The focus is on the intersection between the game-development community and state-of-the-art 3D graphics research, and the potential for cross-pollination of knowledge in future games and other interactive applications.

COURSE SCHEDULE

2 pm
Welcome
Tatarchuk

2 pm
More Performance Without Quality Compromise: Five Rendering Ideas From Battlefield 3
White & Barre-Brisebois

2:50 pm
Physically Based Lighting in Call of Duty: Black Ops
Lazarov

3:30 pm
Real-Time Image Quilting: Arbitrary Material Blends, Invisible Seams, and No Repeats
Malan

4:15 pm
Dynamic Lighting in God of War 3
Filippov

4:45 pm
Pre-Integrated Skin Shading
Penner

Members of the Art Galley committee offer 30-minute guided tours to introduce visitors to Tracing Home and some of the specific artworks displayed in the exhibition. The daily tours begin in the Art Gallery.