There is no machine more steam-punk than the MakerBot Industries Thing-O-Matic 3D printer. Between five and 10 machines are available for autonomous printing on demand in The Studio.

The trademark look of Rapunzel in Disney's "Tangled" presented unique challenges in grooming, rendering, and pipeline management. This talk discusses the original hair road map, changes required during production, and how the XGen system was used for grooming, rendering, and managing the hair data.

Ping Fu, founder and CEO of Geomagic Inc., describes her journey from a computer science student to a computer graphics pioneer and ultimately an entrepreneur dedicated to advancing and applying 3D technology for the benefit of humanity. Her talk weaves technology, applications, and social impact to illustrate the importance of visual computing and its contribution to everyday life today and in the future.

Techniques for automatically producing embroidery layouts from line drawings and rendering those layouts in real time on potentially deformable 3D objects with hardware acceleration.

The DIYLILCNC is an inexpensive, 3-axis, tabletop mill that can be built by an individual with basic shop skills and tool access. The open-source plans are free to download from diylilcnc.org, where makers can collaborate with a global community of DIY CAD/CAM enthusiasts.

This session shows how artists without any programming knowledge can create fun and entertaining games with Unity. Using simple scripts and a modular approach, the session gives artists and programmers a good overview of the main Unity workflow.

Imageworks' parent constraint spXformInterp optimally blends multiple transformations while correctly handling the shear induced when rotation is followed by non-uniform scale, and it can do so in an arbitrary space. This is particularly important with forward/inverse kinematics and motion capture, where several redundant skeletons and multiple constraints would otherwise be needed.

Animated Lines is an illusion of animated sequence that explores the processes and methods of illustrative and abstract forms of traditional hand-drawn animation techniques in a 3D digital process using Maya.

Have you ever wanted to make a videogame? This session shows how to build a small level in the freely available CryENGINE 3 SDK. Topics include: world building and tools (FlowGraph, CryENGINE's visual scripting language, and Trackview, the camera sequencing and directing tools). In less than an hour, attendees create their own playable video games.

The GigaPan system of hardware, image-processing software, and a web application supports the capture, creation, and presentation of gigapixel images. In this workshop, attendees participate in creating a GigaPan image from start to finish: scouting a shooting location near the conference center, setting up the GigaPan robot, taking the source images, stitching these images into a GigaPan, uploading to a web site, and annotating the final GigaPan. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own digital cameras for use with the GigaPan robot, but a limited number of digital cameras will be provided.

How to rig, skin, and export a character for CryENGINE 3. Topics include physics setup, building characters from many skinned meshes, and creating Character Definitions and Character Parameter files. These rigging basics are applicable to most run-time game engines.