Spacecraft Operations Engineer with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to share stories of NASA missions, including the Mars Rovers, which cut through earthly political and cultural issues and redefine persistence in engineering and technology.
Fabric Engine user group meeting to be held July 26; joint presentation with Oculus Story Studio at DigiPro demonstrating how characters rigged with Fabric can add realism to VR experiences within Epic’s Unreal Engine takes place July 23.
Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj’s ‘Borrowed Time’ wins best in show; Ton Roosendaal’s ‘Cosmos Laundromat’ receives the jury award, and Mengjung Yang, Gaetan, Benjamin Lebourgeois, Clarie Vandermeersch and Alendandre Veaux’s ‘Crabe-Phare’ wins best student project.
Production sessions at s2016 to include 20th Century Fox’s ‘Deadpool,’ Disney’s ‘Zootopia,’ Lucasfilm’s ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens,’ Pixar’s ‘Finding Dory’ and LAIKA’s ‘Kubo and the Two Strings.’
Selections for the Oscar-qualifying festival include outstanding achievements in animated feature and short films, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, game excerpts, and many others.
Guru Studio creates a fantastical universe for Netflix original series ‘True & The Rainbow Kingdom’ powered by NVIDIA’s Quadro M6000 GPUs.
VR Village will celebrate ‘Summer of VR’ with unprecedented number of cutting-edge experiential virtual reality and augmented reality installations.
Technical papers selected to participate at SIGGRAPH 2016 include an exploration of Shadow Theatre, Virtual Reality mapping techniques, sketch-based motion editing for articulated characters, and more.
‘Data Materialities’ exhibit to feature unique collection of 10 highly interactive installations created from 2003–2016.
First-time exhibitors for world’s leading computer graphics and interactive conference running July 24-28 in Anaheim, CA announced; ‘Spirit of SIGGRAPH’ design contest launched.
