IVRC: International Collegiate Virtual Reality Contest
Sunday, 5 August 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
For attendees interested in interactive techniques, especially for education. IVRC is the International Collegiate Virtual Reality Contest, which is organized with the Virtual Reality Society.
Studio Views of Demo Reels
Sunday, 5 August 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Representatives from various animation and visual effects production studios talk about what they look for in student demo reels.
Blender Foundation - Community Meeting
Sunday, 5 August 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Chairman Ton Roosendaal presents work on the free open-source program Blender in the past year and discusses future plans. Everyone is invited to join and provide feedback.
COLLADA
Sunday, 5 August 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
See cutting-edge DCC tools and applications for gaming, 3D web, and visualization, and artworks generated from COLLADA content-creation-supporting media.
Teaching OpenGL in a Post-Deprecation World
Sunday, 5 August 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
This session is for educators interested in sharing experiences with teaching OpenGL, including its new features, and taking into account its deprecated ones.
Digital Art Community, ACM-SIGGRAPH
Sunday, 5 August 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Join us to discuss the year-round activities of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community, including online curated exhibitions, our virtual community, and discussions. Bring announcements and ideas.
Khronos Institute for Training and Education (KITE) for Educators
Sunday, 5 August 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
This session is for educators who wish to interact with the newly formed Khronos Institute for Training and Education by sharing educational materials and advising on certification .
Blender Foundation - Artist Showcase
Sunday, 5 August 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Artists and developers of the free open-source program Blender present work they did for film and games and how it was created. Open stage!
Taipei ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter Reunion
Sunday, 5 August 8:30 pm - 11:00 pm
This session is for attendees from Taiwan and everyone interested in graphics research or the computer graphics industry in Taiwan.
Exploring Software Delivery and Pipeline Choices for Students in the Cloud
Monday, 6 August 9:00 am - 10:00 am
For educators and their sysadmins interested in learning how remote software and systems delivery and optimized pipelines can enhance their students work and productivity.
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Educators Forum Asks: How do we maintain excellent animation programs and teach the latest technology at the same time?
Monday, 6 August 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
A discussion led by animation educators for people interested in excellence in animation education and strategies for teaching in today's climate of shrinking resources and rapidly changing technology.
Animation and 21st Century Skills - Mentoring from the Front Line, Online
Monday, 6 August 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
ACME connects middle school through college learners to a mentoring network of peers, educators, and creative industry professionals via our online software platform. Tour our site and discuss mentoring.
Teaching Procedural Workflows
Monday, 6 August 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
This session examines various approaches to teaching abstract and intangible topics essential to procedural workflows.
Undergraduate Research Alliance
Monday, 6 August 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Faculty and students from all institutions of higher learning are invited to join us as we discuss our undergraduate research efforts, our successes and failures, and future ideas.
Skyline: Open Sourcing the Pipeline
Monday, 6 August 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Currently there are only two real options for core pipeline software: buy it or build it. This year, we offer an alternative: sharing.
Teaching Artists to Program With Algorithmic Art
Monday, 6 August 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Algorithmic art combines computational algorithms with design principles to create visual art. This session explores algorithmic art as a context for teaching and motivating computational thinking skills in the classroom.
3D Animation Education Around the World
Monday, 6 August 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Educators from around the world are invited to discuss issues in 3D animation educations identified through surveys in the United States and Japan.
Visualization/Visual Analytics Curriculum
Monday, 6 August 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The last 10 years have seen profound changes in algorithms, techniques, and applications of visualization and the advent of visual analytics. This session discusses the resulting changes to the curricula.
Gitta Domik & G. Scott Owen
The 25th Anniversary CG Show/Sake Barrel Opening Party at SIGGRAPH 2012
Monday, 6 August 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
For attendees interested in the CG show of Yoichiro Kawaguchi, an established Japanese CG artist, and those who would like to reunite or socialize with other attendees.
Women In Animation International
Tuesday, 7 August 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Women In Animation International hosts this annual gathering to promote networking and camaraderie at Siggraph. All are welcome to join this fun event.
Women In Animation International
3D Medical Visualization Using X3D
Tuesday, 7 August 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Learn more about X3D Medical for 3D medical imaging in DICOM and the progress of X3D volume-rendering implementation.
ACM SIGGRAPH Carto BOF
Tuesday, 7 August 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
This ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization (Carto) session explores how viewpoints and techniques from the computer graphics community can be effectively applied to cartographic and spatial datasets.
Kinect Users
Tuesday, 7 August 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
A meet-up for attendees interested in the motion capture, scanning, and other capabilities of the Kinect, ASUS Xtion, web cams, OpenNI, and PrimeSense.
Web3D Standards Meeting
Tuesday, 7 August 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Meet The Web3D Korea Chapter members and discuss their current initiatives on the X3D specification: Augmented Reality, E-Learning, mobile function and X3D implementations.
JogAmp: 2D/3D & Multimedia Across Devices
Tuesday, 7 August 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
JogAmp provides OpenGL and OpenCL across devices using Java. Showcasing font, UI and video, high-level API utilization (Ardor3D, Java3D, etc.), and applications on Android, Linux, Window, OSX, and Solaris.
ACCAD/Ohio State Alumni Gathering
Tuesday, 7 August 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
All Ohio State University alumni, but especially those who studied at CGRG/ACCAD are welcome to attend.
ACCAD/Ohio State University
Animation: From Visual Development to Art Direction
Tuesday, 7 August 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
In this session, Christophe Vacher talks about what it takes to become an art director for animation and visual development.
Mario Pochat
Vancouver Animation School
Motion Graphics
Tuesday, 7 August 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
This session is for attendees interested in motion graphics, video production and compositing. Come see cool projects, and exchange techniques and ideas!
Image-Based Lighting Using Pixar's RenderMan
Tuesday, 7 August 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
In this session, Christos Obretenov talks about the image-based lighting, multiple importance sampling, and raytracing techniques with the latest version of Pixar's RenderMan.
Mario Pochat
Vancouver Animation School
OpenCL
Wednesday, 8 August 3:00 am - 4:00 am
Meet designers and implementers of this significant new standard for heterogeneous parallel programming on GPUs and CPUs. Learn how OpenCL interoperates with OpenGL, enabling advanced, cross-platform, visual-computing applications.
OpenScenegraph BOF
Wednesday, 8 August 10:00 am - 11:00 am
This session is for people interested in open-source rendering and scenegraphs. Topics range from OSG usage to the current state of development and new or planned features.
Christians in Computer Animation
Wednesday, 8 August 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
This session is for Christians and others interested in Christianity who enjoy computer animation and graphics.
Augmented and Mixed Reality
Wednesday, 8 August 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Learn more about how to extend X3D capabilities to support augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. Also get an update on current AR standards activities.
Using Advanced Imaging for Developing Dream Slides
Wednesday, 8 August 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
For attendees interested in applications of advanced image processing for obtaining dream slides. The main objective is attaining a reduced-awake-states artistic creation bias.
X3DOM a Declarative 3D Solution
Wednesday, 8 August 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Integrating a declarative approach to interactive 3D graphics directly into HTML, which enables its use in any web page.
San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH Meeting
Wednesday, 8 August 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
This session is for attendees from San Francisco who are interested in learning about the San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH chapter activities.
Computer Graphics for Simulation
Wednesday, 8 August 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
This is an interdisciplinary meeting for people interested in both the CG and simulation communities. Topics range from 3D CG modeling to simulation modeling methods like DEVS or BIM.
Studio Trainer Meet Up
Wednesday, 8 August 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
A chance for technical trainers, technical writers, and training staff to meet and talk about the rewards and challenges of training artists in an animation, visual effects, or game studio.
Animating Diversity
Wednesday, 8 August 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Animating Diversity aims to educate and promote diversity within the arts and technology community. We want to change the landscape of the creative industry through cultural narrative and character development.
Managing Creative Projects
Wednesday, 8 August 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
This session is for attendees interested in discussing creative projects and how to manage them, with a particular emphasis on Agile methodologies.
WebGL
Wednesday, 8 August 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard based on OpenGL ES 2.0. WebGL is shader-based using GLSL, bringing plugin-free 3D to web, directly into browser.
OpenGL ES
Wednesday, 8 August 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
OpenGL ES is royalty-free, cross-platform API for full-function 2D and 3D graphics on embedded systems - including consoles, phones, appliances and vehicles. Attend for latest news and updates!
OpenGL
Wednesday, 8 August 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Learn more about OpenGL, the most widely adopted 2D/3D graphics API, from the ARB and leading OpenGL companies. Join us for our 20th Anniversary celebration!
