The goal of this session is to encourage dialog about new technologies in game development and interactive graphics. Discussion topics include mobile and social games, research in games and interactive graphics, and effective collaboration.

Computer-generated volumetric elements such as clouds, fire, and whitewater are becoming commonplace visual effects. This course provides a behind-the-scenes look at the techniques used and how they are implemented. It demonstrates tools and workflows that are not typically covered in production talks but are integral to successful completion of many effects.

The presenters, who have innovated the use of volumetric methods in industry and created some of the most impressive on-screen effects, summarize how specific artistic needs lead to innovations and review the success and evolution of their methods. They also discuss the software-engineering issues they have encountered and their solutions.

COURSE SCHEDULE

2 pm
Introduction
Bin Zafar

2:05 pm
Rhythm & Hues
Tessendorf & Grant

2:35 pm
Clinton

3:05 pm
Weta Digital
Bouthors

3:35 pm
Break

3:55 pm
Double Negative
Harding & Graham

4:25 pm
Sony Pictures Imageworks
Wrenninge

Join the third annual GPU Ray Tracing Birds of a Feather session. Show off your demos. Share your use cases, ideas, and gripes. High-performance CPU ray tracing is welcome, too.

The tools developed at Digital Domain to create unique character destruction effects that are art directable.

The Moving Picture Company introduces Kali, a finite-element-based simulation toolkit for large-scale and detailed destruction, developed in collaboration with Pixelux. The toolkit is described with examples from Zack Snyder's "Sucker Punch".

This hybrid approach to combining the power of custom hair dynamics with the artistic control of key-framed animation was key to the success of directing hair motion on "Tangled".

Creation of a highly art directed "dam breaking with resulting flood" sequence for Disney's "Tangled" by applying the 12 basic principles of animation to a fluid-based simulation through post manipulation of timing and shape.

This course focuses on rigging, deformations, dynamics, and production practices in animation, visual effects and game development. Topics include analysis of performance requirements, motion system set-up, procedural rigging for secondary animation, and efficient extension of techniques over a wide range of primary and secondary characters.

COURSE SCHEDULE

2 pm
Welcome and Introductions of Speakers
McLaughlin

2:05 pm
Structure of the Course and Overview of Our Approach to Rigging [What the Course is and What it is Not]
McLaughlin

2:15 pm
Rigging for Visual Effects
McLaughlin

3:05 pm
Immediate Questions
McLaughlin

3:10 pm
Rigging for Games
Coleman

4 pm
Immediate Questions
Coleman

4:05 pm
Rigging for Feature Animation
Cutler

4:55 pm
Immediate Questions
Cutler

5 pm
General Questions and Answers
McLaughlin, Coleman, and Cutler

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.

How Much Animation Can You Do in a Day?
This talk shows how to speed up your pipeline with the Xsens MVN animation tool. It also explains how to record a motion, edit the motion, and insert it into a scene in no time, or even real time, using the Xsens MVN system.

This session is for attendees interested in discussing creative projects and how to manage them, with a particular emphasis on Agile methodologies.

Learn more about X3DOM, fully integrated X3D with HTML with no plug-ins. currently supported in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browsers.

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.