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Emerging from SIGGRAPH's Emerging Technology

By Dan Sarto | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 4:11pm

Preston Smith began with SIGGRAPH as a volunteer 15 years ago and is the current Chair of the Emerging Technologies section. Preston is a network administrator. When he graduated from college, he thought seriously about getting involved in CG. The more he watched what the kids in this industry were doing with technology, the more he became interested in supporting that technology. Today, Preston is the Linux administrator at the Laureate Institute for Brain Research. He supports the fMRI, or function Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine.

Blogs

Pixar's Jim Morris Keynotes SIGGRAPH 2010

By Dan Sarto | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 4:02pm

Jim Morris, General Manager and Executive Vice President of Production at Pixar Animation Studios has over 23 years experience as a producer and production executive in the motion picture industry. He came to the 37th Annual SIGGRAPH, his 20th time in attendance, with a message.

Jim posed the rhetorical question, “Who comes to SIGGRAPH?” It is the people who, at some point early in life, watched a movie that lit a spark in them. For Jim, it was stop animation in some of the older movies like Jason and the Argonauts.

Effects Headline News

Avatar Veteran VFX Producer Joins Legend3D Team

Legend3D, the leading innovator in 2D-to-3D motion picture conversion technology, today announced the addition of Toni Pace Carstensen to the Legend3D team as Senior Visual Effects (VFX) Producer.

Headline News

Procedural Inc. Partnering with ESRI and NVIDIA on 3D Cities in the Cloud

Procedural Inc. Joins ESRI's Business Partner Program. Automatic Creation and Cloud-based Visualization of Photorealistic 3D Cities from ArcGIS Data with CityEngine and RealityServer. Presented on a Tegra Tablet at ESRI User Conference in San Diego.

Software Headline News

Lightworks to Present Paper at SIGGRAPH Conference

Lightworks, the world's leading supplier of rendering solutions for developers of advanced 3D computer graphics software, today announced that Manuel Gamito – one of the Company’s development team - will be presenting a paper at this year’s Siggraph Conference in Los Angeles.

Tools Headline News

NewTek Showcases New 3D Technology at SIGGRAPH 2010

NewTek invites all 3D artists and CG media to visit our booth to view demonstrations of the much anticipated new version of LightWave 3D at SIGGRAPH 2010 - Hall H, Booth #337.

Motion Headline News

Xsens releases landmark algorithm for stable 3D tracking in magnetically distorted environments

Xsens Technologies B.V., the leader in professional 3D tracking systems, today announced the general availability of its KinematicCoupling (KiCTM) algorithm

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