IVRC: International Collegiate Virtual Reality Contest
Sunday, 5 August 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 402A
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 | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 506
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 | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 402A
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.
Teaching OpenGL in a Post-Deprecation World
Sunday, 5 August 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 506
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 | Los Angeles Convention Center - ACM SIGGRAPH Theater, South Lobby
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 | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 506
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 | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 402A
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 | JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live - Georgia 1 & 2
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 | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 506
For educators and their sysadmins interested in learning how remote software and systems delivery and optimized pipelines can enhance their students work and productivity.
Deliberate Practice Makes Perfect - 10,000 Hours to Expertise
Monday, 6 August 9:30 am - 10:30 am | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 402A
Success is a group project. Learn how the 10,000 Hour Theory can be taught to and implemented by students to achieve effective goal-setting, time management, and skill development.
Teaching Procedural Workflows
Monday, 6 August 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 506
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 | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 516
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.
Teaching Artists to Program With Algorithmic Art
Monday, 6 August 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 506
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 | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 506
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 | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 506
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
Hacking Objects: An Exploration in Rule Breaking
Monday, 6 August 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | The Standard Downtown LA - Brunette Room
This session is for people interested in tinkering with things, breaking things, and remaking things - breaking codes and teaching computational concepts through physical objects.
Assemble, a community space for arts + technology
The 25th Anniversary CG Show/Sake Barrel Opening Party at SIGGRAPH 2012
Monday, 6 August 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm | JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live - Platinum Ballroom Salon C
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.
CreativeIT - Collaboration Studios Industry Advisors Meeting
Tuesday, 7 August 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 410
The meeting is for the industry advisors to the CreativeIT - Collaborative Studios project at Texas A&M University.
Women In Animation International
Tuesday, 7 August 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 507
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
REST-3D
Tuesday, 7 August 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 516
This session is open to anyone interested in REST technology applied to 3D content.
Interactive Volume-Modeling Plug-Ins Suite for Houdini
Tuesday, 7 August 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 402A
A tech demo of volume-modeling Houdini plug-ins with optimizations to give users interactive feedback on very large volume resolutions. The demo is a technical paper simplified for a non-technical audience.
From CAD to the Web
Tuesday, 7 August 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 513
This session is for attendees interested in Web3D applications for CAD. Discussion topics include Web3D, STEP, B-REP, WebGL, and CAD data conversion.
Substrate: Mobile Gesture for the Processing Graphics Environment
Tuesday, 7 August 11:00 am - 1:00 pm | Luxe City Center Hotel - Rodeo
Oblong Industries' mobile-based gesture applications interface with Processing through Substrate. In this hackathon, you'll build interactive applications that communicate with every person and every device in the room.
LA ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter Social
Tuesday, 7 August 11:30 am - 1:30 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 506
The Chapter Social is your opportunity to meet chapter officers, preview coming events, and socialize with chapter members. Everyone is welcome.
ACM SIGGRAPH Carto BOF
Tuesday, 7 August 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 507
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 | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 410
A meet-up for attendees interested in the motion capture, scanning, and other capabilities of the Kinect, ASUS Xtion, web cams, OpenNI, and PrimeSense.
The ACME Network Presents: Animation and 21st Century Skills - Mentoring From the Front Line, Online
Tuesday, 7 August 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 402A
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.
ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Educators Forum Asks: How do we maintain excellent animation programs and teach the latest technology at the same time?
Tuesday, 7 August 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 402A
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.
3D Medical Visualization Using X3D
Tuesday, 7 August 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 513
Learn more about X3D Medical for 3D medical imaging in DICOM and the progress of X3D volume-rendering implementation.
OpenEXR
Tuesday, 7 August 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 507
For attendees interested in OpenEXR version 2, including support for deep data and multi-part image files. This evolution of OpenEXR was co-developed by Industrial Light & Magic and Weta Digital.
Motion Graphics
Tuesday, 7 August 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 506
This session is for attendees interested in motion graphics, video production and compositing. Come see cool projects, and exchange techniques and ideas!
Practical Application of Alembic
Tuesday, 7 August 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 410
This follow-up to last year's Practical Integration of Alembic focuses on Q & A the Alembic development team on application of the Alembic format in production environments.
JogAmp: 2D/3D & Multimedia Across Devices
Tuesday, 7 August 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 402A
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.
Web3D Consortium Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday, 7 August 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 513
Network with our innovative community of Web3D 3D content and application developers while learning about our X3D technologies and initiatives.
ACCAD/Ohio State Alumni Gathering
Tuesday, 7 August 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Omni Los Angeles Hotel - Hershey Room
All Ohio State University alumni, but especially those who studied at CGRG/ACCAD are welcome to attend.
ACCAD/Ohio State University
Getting Your Project Done!
Tuesday, 7 August 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 516
What works and what doesn't when it comes to getting personal projects done. How to take it out of the "hobby" realm and keep collaborators interested despite busy schedules.
Dynamic Simulation in Production
Tuesday, 7 August 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm | JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live - Olympic 3
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.
SIGGIG: Gays In Graphics
Tuesday, 7 August 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Luxe City Center Hotel - Rodeo
SIGGIG: Gays In Graphics is a social event for attendees involved in, interested in, or supportive of the GLBT community.
Animation: From Visual Development to Art Direction
Tuesday, 7 August 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm | JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live - Atrium 1
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
Image-Based Lighting Using Pixar's RenderMan
Tuesday, 7 August 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm | JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live - Georgia 2
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
3D Modeling Standards Development
Wednesday, 8 August 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 410
For industry professionals who develop and maintain 3D modeling standards for their organizations, and for freelance artists who wish to improve their work by conforming to these standards.
Christians in Computer Animation
Wednesday, 8 August 10:00 am - 12:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 507
This session is for Christians and others interested in Christianity who enjoy computer animation and graphics.
Collaboration Between Education and Industry: The New Model
Wednesday, 8 August 10:00 am - 12:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 516
Join us to discuss ways to promote creative and technical collaboration in support of college and university curricula through partnerships with regional entertainment enterprises.
OpenScenegraph BOF
Wednesday, 8 August 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 506
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.
X3DOM a Declarative 3D Solution
Wednesday, 8 August 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 513
Integrating a declarative approach to interactive 3D graphics directly into HTML, which enables its use in any web page.
Augmented and Mixed Reality
Wednesday, 8 August 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 513
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 | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 402A
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.
Leonardo Community Meeting
Wednesday, 8 August 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 512
Leonardo community members and all SIGGRAPH attendees are invited to hear presentations from Leonardo Affiliate Member organizations on cutting-edge research and educational programs in art and science cience around the world.
Challenges and Solutions for Today's Render Pipelines
Wednesday, 8 August 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 402A
Visual effects rendering complexity continues to increase ahead of budgets. This panel of pipeline experts discusses current rendering issues and answers your questions on render-management best practices.
Animating Diversity
Wednesday, 8 August 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 506
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.
COLLADA
Wednesday, 8 August 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live - Gold Ballroom Salon 3
See cutting-edge DCC tools and applications for gaming, 3D web, and visualization, and artworks generated from COLLADA content-creation-supporting media.
Computer Graphics for Simulation
Wednesday, 8 August 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 410
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.
San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH Meeting
Wednesday, 8 August 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - ACM SIGGRAPH Theater, South Lobby
This session is for attendees from San Francisco who are interested in learning about the San Francisco ACM SIGGRAPH chapter activities.
Studio Trainer Meet Up
Wednesday, 8 August 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 507
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.
Web3D Standards Meeting
Wednesday, 8 August 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 513
Meet The Web3D Korea Chapter members and discuss their current initiatives on the X3D specification: augmented reality, E-Learning, mobile function, and X3D implementations.
Managing Creative Projects
Wednesday, 8 August 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 410
This session is for attendees interested in discussing creative projects and how to manage them, with a particular emphasis on Agile methodologies.
Mari Artists & Technical Directors
Wednesday, 8 August 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 512
Discussion of Mari techniques and how TDs and artists are implementing the texture-painting tool in production for games and film. Meet some of the engineers who are working on this tool.
OpenCL
Wednesday, 8 August 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live - Gold Ballroom Salon 3
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.
Renderfarming
Wednesday, 8 August 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live - Georgia 1 & 2
Discussion of large-scale rendering: renderfarm infrastructure, software, queue management, reliability, and performance.
WebGL
Wednesday, 8 August 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live - Gold Ballroom Salon 3
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 | JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live - Gold Ballroom Salon 3
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!
Los Angeles Modo Users Group: Using Modo With Other 2D/3D Content Creation Tools
Wednesday, 8 August 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Marriott Los Angeles Downtown - Grande Ballroom - Salon 3
Anyone interested in 2D or 3D content creation tools, including modo or other off-the-shelf software is invited to participate in this informal gathering of artists, developers and designers.
OpenGL
Wednesday, 8 August 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live - Gold Ballroom Salon 3
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!
Purdue University Birds of a Feather
Wednesday, 8 August 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown - Santa Monica A
This session is for Purdue University alumni, current students, present and past professors, Purdue fans, and the Purdue-curious.
Ray Hassan
Purdue University
University of Pennsylvania and ETH Zürich Reception
Wednesday, 8 August 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live - Plaza 1
A dessert reception jointly sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania and ETH Zürich research groups.
Motion Capture Society Birds of a Feather 2012
Thursday, 9 August 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 516
This session is for motion capture discussions about current and future events in the industry, and general discussions about the technology used.
