Yearly Archives: 2008

Electronic Theatre Screening + AGM

[ 2008-08-20; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Date: Wednesday 20th August 2008

Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:00pm

Venue: EGO2 Auditorium (CoFA), Selwyn St, Paddington

Speaker: TBA

What’s it all about?
Straight from the 2008 conference this is a Chapter screening open to all. The event will begin with a brief Chapter Annual General Meeting, followed by the screening of the highlights of the Electronic Theatre presentation from [...]

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Posted agenda for 2008 AGM, previous minutes, plus financial statements, see August event for more info

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New Techniques for Acquiring, Rendering, and Displaying Human Performances

[ 2008-07-28; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] The Australian Film Television and Radio School, in conjunction with the SIGGRAPH Sydney chapter (), presents an evening of exciting insights into the world of computer graphics and interactive techniques with Paul Debevec.

Date: Monday 28th July 2008

Time: 6:00pm till 8:00pm

Venue: Theatre 1, AFTRS Sydney (More on getting to AFTRS >)

Speakers: Paul Debevec

What’s it all about?
Paul [...]

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Paul Debevec

Paul Debevec is the associate director of graphics research at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies (USC ICT) and a research associate professor in USC’s Department of Computer Science. His Ph.D. thesis at UC Berkeley presented Façade, an image-based modeling and rendering system for creating photoreal virtual cinematography of architectural scenes from [...]

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Showreel Showdown

[ 2008-04-2; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Date: Wednesday 2nd April 2008

Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:00pm

Venue: Elwynn Lynn Conference Centre, College of Fine Arts (CoFA), Selwyn St, Paddington

Speaker: Nick Hore (Animal Logic) and Peter Giles (AFTRS)

What’s it all about?
Another look at a perennial topic. Members are invited to bring their own showreels or uncut materials to get feedback on how to make [...]

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facegroup available for up-to-date Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH members now available here

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Special Event – The Previz Team from Fuel speak on Greg McLean’s ‘Rogue’

[ 2008-07-2; 6:45 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Date: Wednesday 2nd July 2008

Time: 6:45pm to approx 9:00pm

Venue: Elwynn Lynn Conference Centre, College of Fine Arts (CoFA), Selwyn St, Paddington

Speakers: Andrew Hellen and Jason Bath

What’s it all about?
Previz is one of the director’s most powerful and efficient ways to work through the action and dramatic pace of visual story. The previz sequences for ‘Rogue’ [...]

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Working with Clients

[ 2008-06-4; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Date: Wednesday 4th June 2008

Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:00pm

Venue: Elwynn Lynn Conference Centre, College of Fine Arts (CoFA), Selwyn St, Paddington

Speaker: Catherine Gleeson (AFTRS) and Tracey Sernack Chee-Quee (TAFE, Sydgraph Board)

What’s it all about?
Talent is only one portion of the formula needed for success; working well with clients is another. Judging by recent posts on [...]

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updates 20070313

updated vc blog
updated events

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March ’08

The First Wednesday of the Month seems to have made it into lots of our members’ and friends’ calendars as we have had an excellent turnout for the first two events. We kicked off the year with ‘Mapping the ‘Verse‘, a session that looked at business models for user-generated content. This session was based on [...]

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