This session is for attendees from San Francisco who are interested in the re-opening of the San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter.

Bakery Relight: Interactive Lighting, Shading, and Rendering for Pros
Designed for the high-end feature film, television, industrial, automotive, and architectural design industries, Bakery Relight is the first interactive, all-in-one lighting, shading, and rendering solution. Born out of years of hands-on experience on top-grossing feature films, Relight supports the lighters’ and shaders’ iterative process with full-resolution feedback in seconds.

"Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole" features over 60 distinctive, art-directed, hyper-realistic feathered characters. Animal Logic developed a procedural feathering pipeline, Quill, that allows a procedural representation of feathers with automatic de-intersection, animation, character effects, and dynamics, and rendered with extensive level-of-detail support.

A simulation-based technique to prevent animated feather penetrations that preserves the artist's visual development as closely as possible while providing a collision-free state for subsequent animation and simulation.

An accurate, robust, and efficient method to handle penetration between interpolated hairs and subdivision surfaces during render time. The method works by converting the subdivision surfaces to Bezier patches and performing accurate hair-patch intersections using Newton's method. The method works on every frame independently.

A technique for animating characters traversing complex dynamic environments. The method uses motion capture to construct a set of controllers to traverse low-dimensional obstacles, and then employs a space-time planner to plan out the sequence in which the controllers must be used to traverse a complex dynamic environment.

A general approach to creating realistic swimming behavior for a given articulated creature body, which includes creature/fluid simulation and swimming gait optimization. For a wide variety of aquatic creatures with different body shapes, the resulting motion matches that of real-world animals.

This paper presents a large number of integrated locomotion skills for real-time physics-based quadrupeds. These skills include walk, trot, pace, canter, gallop, sit, lie-down, get-up, and parameterized leaps over barriers, across gaps, and onto platforms. The simulated motions are compared to known data for a dog.

This approach to constructing composite controllers that track multiple trajectories in parallel generates both high-quality animations and natural responses to certain disturbances.

This paper describes how game theory can be used to automatically create intelligent real-time controllers for characters engaged in a competitive game. These controllers employ long-term planning, display an intelligent use of randomness, and exhibit nuanced strategies based on unpredictability, such as feints and misdirection moves.

Tracing Home participating artists casually explain and discuss their works, process, and ideas . These talks are followed by short Q & A sessions and an opportunity to meet and chat with the artists. All talks are presented in the Art Gallery.

This companion event to the panel titled is an informal gathering to discuss the complex relationships between technology and collaboration for distributed work environments.

This session is for attendees interested in hearing about and discussing the latest trends in dynamic simulation (rigid, cloth, hair, fluids, etc.) in production. Come. Connect. Collaborate. Experience. Enjoy. Eat.

Open to all Pioneers.

How to use Zbrush for life drawing and portraiture, and how to apply skills and concepts from traditional sculpting and life drawing in a digital medium.

An exact and efficient contributing-vertices-based algorithm for the Minkowski sum computation of a non-convex-convex pair of polyhedra. The algorithm handles non-manifold situations and extracts polyhedral holes of the sum. Several results

MeshFlow is an interactive system for visualizing polygonal mesh construction sequences. It hierarchically clusters editing operations visualized with graphical annotations to provide levels of detail on demand. MeshFlow was tested on five mesh sequences and evaluated with a case study using modeling students.

LR is a compact data structure for representing the connectivity of manifold triangle meshes. It supports constant-time incidence and adjacency queries while storing only one integer reference per triangle. Its greedy, linear-time construction involves ordering the vertices along a nearly Hamiltonian cycle.

Previously, only the normal component of the surface was known. This method of deriving a formula for the velocity of a time-evolving implicit surface applies the normal component to the problem of tracking particles on the surface and the problem of motion-blurring implicit surfaces.