Animation World Magazine, Issue 2.6, September 1997

SIGGRAPH `97s
Computer Animation Festival

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Digital Smoke by John Anderson, University of Wisconsin at Madison. "The problem with physical simulation pieces," John told AWN, "is that you work 3 months on something and its only 20 seconds long." Where there's smoke, there's fire. John and his team at U of Wisconsin's Computerized Sciences Scientific Visualization department are currently working on an algorithm to simulate fire.

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DJ Asylum - The Orb by Benjamin Stokes, H-Gun Labs, Chicago.

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Conscience by Emre Yilmaz, with Dan Hanna and Bay Raitt, Protozoa, San Francisco. Conscience is described as being "an exploration of the deep agony of being confronted by the Lacanian 'other,' and the subconscious transduction of interpersonal identity that ensues." Really, though, it's just a silly little piece about a monkey who wants to step on a spider, but is stopped by his conscience. Note: see Protozoa's VRML skit, Floops, in the SIGGRAPH News Report.

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The Shapemaker Prelude by Mark Allen. Mark Allen has "captured Hollywood's attention" and earned a movie deal by creating this film at home on his Power Macintosh.

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Nessie by Jeff Galloway, Ringling School of Art & Design, Florida. Playing the bagpipes too early in the morning can be hazardous to your health! A story about the Loch Ness Monster. Created with Alias PowerAnimator on a Silicon Graphics Indy R4400.

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Sharing by Michael McCarthy and Jason Zirpolo, Ringling School of Art & Design, Florida. A short story about siblings. Created with Alias PowerAnimator on an SGI Indy.

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10,000 Feet by D.J. Cassell, Ringling School of Art & Design, Florida. A skydiving teddy bear learns that all the hours of learning and theory cannot make up for the actual experience. Created with Alias PowerAnimator on an SGI Indy.

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The Tapir by Raquel Coelho, School Of Visual Arts, New York. This story is part of the Brazilian Indian's mythology, and explains the origin of the Amazons. The design is based on puppet theater and cut-outs and acts as an extension of the artist's work as an illustrator of children's books. Created with Silicon Graphics Indy, Indigo 2, and Softimage. Raquel is currently working as a computer animator at Blue Sky Studios, in Harrison, NY.

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Ahoy The Movie by Bruce Pukema, Ronin Animation, Minnesota. © 1997 Ronin Animation.

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Advanced Problem Solving by Kevin Souls, USC Graduate School of Cinema/Television, Los Angeles. Digital allegoric manifestation. . . .a metaphor for your daily life. Created with Alias on a personal Iris Silicon Graphics workstation.

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Inherited Memories by Cynthia Rubin, Rhode Island. Cynthia is an independent artist and animator based in Providence. This film is being included in an exhibition at the Oxford Gallery in Rochester, NY during the month of September. Selected stills from the film will be for sale with a copy of the animation included.

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Congress Center Messe Frankfurt Visualization by Uli Spierling, ZGDV computer Graphics Center, Darmstadt, Germany. 3D architecture visualization.

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Runners by Kazuma Morino, Taiyo Kikaku Co., Ltd.

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Billy Ray Shyster's House of Discount Special Effects & Animation Emporium by Paul Kevin Thomason, Texas A&M University Visualization Laboratory.

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Good Vibrations by Harald Evers, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany. Contributors: Harald Evers, Gerald Glombitza, Oliver Werner, Hans-Peter Meinzer. For this scientific visualization, two tomographic image volumes, a magnetic resonance time-sequence of a human heart and a CT-scan of a skull were manipulated and rendered to achieve a voxel-based vibration effect. The volume data was visualized using the Heidelberg Raytracing Model, a method that models the interaction of light with objects in volume data.

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ACRI The Making by Shuji Asano, Tokyo.

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Rave Art, a sequence from Enigma by Glenn Grillo, Nighttribe, Venice, California. Grillo is a freelance animator based in Los Angeles. Created using Photoshop, After Effects and Alias.

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Compiled by Wendy Jackson, Associate Editor of Animation World Magazine.

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