Yearly Archives: 2007

Ryan Weston

Ryan was born and raised in the States, and through a regular exposure to comic books, animation and the traditional summer blockbuster movie season cultivated a love of art and visual storytelling. He went through grade school intending to become a graphic artist, however an industry downturn forced me to reconsider my options. He enjoyed [...]

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SIGGRAPH: Board Minutes 07/02/07

Attending:
Chair – Nick Hore
Tracey Sernack-Chee Quee
Shilo McClean
James Murty
Ryan Weston
Minutes – Peter Giles
Apologies:
Agenda

Minutes of Previous Meeting
Nomination of Other Business
Events & Education Committee Reports
Public Relations Committee Report
Website Committee Report
Membership Committee Report
Business Planning & Treasurer’s Report
Action Items
Other Business

1.0 Minutes of Previous Meeting
1.1 The Minutes of the previous meeting were adopted without amendment
2.0 Nomination of Other Business
- relationship with IF [...]

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Welcome to the Vice Chair’s Blog – Showreels and Happy Feet Report

On 7 February we kicked off this year’s events with a session on that perennial favourite: showreels. The Industry Forum last November made it clear that events focussing on career issues would be very welcome so I put together a session on showreels that included the following… Continue reading

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Connor’s penguin in texta

Connor’s penguin in texta, originally uploaded by jcmurty.

Content Creator: Connor Murty
Date Created: 7/3/2006
Type: illustration
Technology Used: coloured texta + scrap paper
Description: Connor drew a series of penguins during our popular Animal Logic + Happy Feet March event.

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Connor’s penguin in texta

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Connor’s penguin in texta, originally uploaded by jcmurty.

Content Creator: Connor Murty
Date Created: 7/3/2006
Type: drawing
Technology Used: coloured texta + scrap paper
Description: Connor draw a series of penguins during the event

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Photos from Happy Feet + Animal Logic

our chapter’s chair Nick Hore, introducing our three speakers for the night.

The speakers from Animal Logic, Aidan Sarsfield, Justen Marshall, and Magali Rigaudias.

A pretty good crowd showed up for this event.

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we’re moving sydney.siggraph.org.au into a new content management system to make it easier to keep the site up-to-date. please bare with us while we get everything up and running again.

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spider in the garden

Content Creator: James Christopher Murty
Date Created: 11/11/2006
Type: photograph
Technology Used: Canon PowerShot S10
Description: shot in the backyard with my trusty old digital camera using the macro setting

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turkey day 2006

Content Creator: James Christopher Murty
Date Created: 25/11/2006
Type: stop frame animation
Technology Used: busted Ti, iSight camera, PHP, Bash shell script, isightcapture utility
Decscription: A short time lapse animation of Turkeyday. An annual event we host in Coogee around Thanksgiving.
This year I documented the occasion with an iSight camera, a headless Ti Powerbook, and [...]

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Title & Graphics Design

[ 2007-12-5; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Date: Wednesday 5th December 2007
Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:00pm
Venue: EGO2 Auditorium, College of Fine Arts (CoFA), Selwyn St, Paddington

What’s it all about?
Are your showreel titles letting down your reel? Do you want to know more about the graphic design side of computer graphics? Award-winning Design Director Anthony Battaglia will speak on motion graphics in [...]

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