Ten Virtual Reality experiences and 22 features, short films, commercials and game trailers are selected for the 2017 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival.
Selections for this year’s edition of the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival, taking place in Los Angeles July 30 through August 3, are now online.
The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is one of the leading annual festivals for the world’s most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators. An internationally recognized jury receives hundreds of submissions and presents the best work of the year in the Electronic Theater. For SIGGRAPH 2017, the festival is moving beyond the flat screen to present short films and experiences in a new space, the VR Theater, where attendants will experience the next generation of storytelling in virtual reality.
The full list of selections is shown below:
ELECTRONIC THEATER
Analogue Loaders
Raphael Vangelis (United Kingdom)
Asteria
École Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques (France)
Alexandre Arpentinier, Mathieu Blanchys, Lola Grand, Tristan Lamarca, Thomas Lemaille, Jean-Charles Lusseau
Canal Kitchen
Unit Image (France)
Maxime Luère, Leon Berelle, Dominique Boidin, Remi Kozyra
Elemental
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
Adrian Meyer
Final Fantasy XV – Omen Trailer
Digic Pictures (Hungary)
István Zorkóczy
Fortnite: From Husk Till Dawn!
Epic Games (United States)
Gavin Moran, Michael Clausen
Garden Party
MOPA (France)
Théophile Dufresne, Florian Babikian, Gabriel Grapperon, Lucas Navarro, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire
Happy Valentine’s Day
Neymarc Visuals (United States)
Neymarc Brothers
ILM VFX – Kong: Skull Island
Industrial Light & Magic (United States, Canada)
John Vogt-Roberts
ILM VFX – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Industrial Light & Magic (United States, United Kingdom, China, Canada)
Gareth Edwards
John Lewis “Buster the Boxer”
Moving Picture Company (United Kingdom)
Dougual Wilson
Lou
Pixar Animation Studios (United States)
Dave Mullens
MPC Presents: The Jungle Book
Moving Picture Company (United States)
Jon Favreau
Our Wonderful Nature - The Common Chameleon
LUMATIC GmbH & Co. KG (Germany)
Tomer Eshed, Dennis Rettkowski, Michael Herm, Alexander Pohl
Pirate Smooch
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
Tobias Trebeljahr
Poilus
ISART Digital (France)
Guillaume Auberval, Léa Dozoul, Simon Gomez, Timothé Hek, Hugo Lagrange, Antoine Laroye, David Lashcari
Résistance
MOPA (France)
Alex Chauvet, Anna Le Danois, Quentin Foulon, Fabien Glasse, Juliette Jean, Julie Narat
Scrambled
Polder Animation (Netherlands)
Bastiaan Schravendeel
Seasonal Changes in Carbon Dioxide
Scientific Visualization Studio – NASA/GSFC (United States)
Gregory Shirah, Horace Mitchell
Sirocco
MOPA (France)
Avril Hug, Lauren Madec, Kevin Tarpinian, Thomas Lopez, Romain Garcia
Song of a Toad
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
Kariem Saleh
The Human Race
The Mill, Chevrolet, Epic Games (United Kingdom)
Rama Allen, Westley Sarokin
VR THEATER
Arden’s Wake
Penrose Studios (United States)
Eugene Chung
Chocolate
Gentle Manhands (United States)
Tyler Hurd
Dear Angelica
Oculus Story Studio (United States)
Saschka Unseld
Fantasynth
HelloEnjoy (United Kingdom)
Carlos Ulloa
Rainbow Crow
Baobab Studios (United States)
Eric Darnell
Son of Jaguar
Google ATAP (United States)
Jorge Gutierrez
Sonaria
Google ATAP (United States)
Scot Stafford, Chromosphere
The Antarctica Series: Under a Cracked Sky
The New York Times (United States)
Graham Roberts, Jonathan Corum
We Wait
Aardman Animations (United Kingdom)
Dan Efergan
Zero Days VR
Scatter (United States)
Yasmin Elayat
New for 2017, the Computer Animation Festival will host two separate Director Q&A sessions featuring directors from both the Electronic Theater and VR theaters on Wednesday, 2 August. Each sessions will give attendees the chance to have an open dialogue with the creators behind the work.
Source: SIGGRAPH 2017
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
