Posted agenda for 2008 AGM, previous minutes, plus financial statements, see August event for more info
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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 the US ACM Siggraph 2008 Conference.
Click here to see a PDF (~40KB) containing this years agenda, the financial report for 2007-2008, and minutes from the previous AGM.
Cost: FREE to all members and their guests, as well as members of the public. Members and guests can purchase food and refreshments from the COFA canteen adjacent to the Auditorium prior to the event. (Attendees can sign up as a new member on the night. Annual Membership fees are $40 for professionals and $20 for students)
Probably best known for the annual SIGGRAPH International conference on computer graphics for film, televisions and new media industries, ACM SIGGRAPH also puts on a variety of programs year-round and worldwide to benefit the SIGGRAPH community. The event listed above is hosted by our local chapter and is free for all chapter members.
The Australian Film Television and Radio School, in conjunction with the SIGGRAPH Sydney chapter (http://sydney.siggraph.org.au), 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 Debevec has developed many of the technologies used to create photorealistic virtual characters and environments for feature films and games. He 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. He Paul will present a TALK at AFTRS on Monday July 28 on
New Techniques for Acquiring, Rendering, and Displaying Human Performances which will include:
- acquiring, rendering, and displaying photoreal models of people, objects, and dynamic performances
- image-based lighting techniques for photorealistic compositing and reflectance acquisition techniques (which have been used to create realistic digital actors in films such as “Spider Man 2″ and “Superman Returns”.
- describing image-based relighting with free-viewpoint video to capture and render full-body performances and new 3D face scanning processes that captures high-resolution skin detail
- investigating new 3D display that leverages 5,000 frames per second video projection to show autostereoscopic, interactive 3D imagery to any number of viewers simultaneously
Cost: Free
RSVP essential
To secure your place for this FREE talk email your name and phone number to Cassandra at: rsvpdigi@aftrs.edu.au
AFTRS is NOW located at 130 Bent St, inside The Entertainment Quarter.
Public Vehicle and pedestrian entrance to the Entertainment Quarter is via the main entrance on Lang Rd.
The Entertainment Quarter is serviced by buses and Central railway station is a short bus ride away.
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 photographs. Using Façade he led the creation of a photoreal animation of the Berkeley campus for his 1997 film “The Campanile Movie” whose techniques were later used to create virtual backgrounds for the “The Matrix”; he went on to demonstrate new image-based lighting techniques in his animations “Rendering with Natural Light”, “Fiat Lux”, and “The Parthenon”. Debevec led the design of HDR Shop, the first widely used high dynamic range image editing program and co-authored the recent book “High Dynamic Range Imaging. Debevec received ACM SIGGRAPH’s Significant New Researcher Award in 2001 and recently chaired the SIGGRAPH 2007 ComputerAnimation Festival.
Paul led the design of HDR Shop, the first widely used high dynamic range image editing program and co-authored the recent book High Dynamic Range Imaging. He received ACM SIGGRAPH’s Significant New Researcher Award in 2001 and recently chaired the SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival. He is also involved in the inaugural SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 conference as one of the Computer Animation Festival jury members. More information on SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 can be found here: www.siggraph.org/asia2008.
facegroup available for up-to-date Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH members now available here
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’ were an invaluable way for director Greg McLean to ensure that on-set time and CG elements were perfectly matched and that the action sequences had great impact. Andrew Hellen and Jason Bath will discuss the process they went through to build these sequences and then the membership will be able to stay on after the Q&A to see the film.
Cost: Free for Siggraph members. $5 cover charge for refreshments for guests and non-members.
(Attendees can sign up as a new member on the night. Annual Membership fees are $40 for professionals and $20 for students)
Probably best known for the annual SIGGRAPH International conference on computer graphics for film, televisions and new media industries, ACM SIGGRAPH also puts on a variety of programs year-round and worldwide to benefit the SIGGRAPH community. The event listed above is hosted by our local chapter and is free for all chapter members.
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 the DLF and feedback from members, one of the hardest things about being a freelancer or moving up the career ladder is knowing how to deal with things like:
pitching, taking a brief, the protocol of how to handle details like getting paid, follow-ups, relationships, and problems – like not getting paid.
So this session brings together two people who have worked extensively in industry and who can cover these topics and field a Q&A that should help members whether those just starting out or colleagues who are always open to new ideas about how to handle the eternal challenges of working with clients successfully.
Cost: Free for Siggraph members. $5 cover charge for refreshments for guests and non-members.
(Attendees can sign up as a new member on the night. Annual Membership fees are $40 for professionals and $20 for students)
Probably best known for the annual SIGGRAPH International conference on computer graphics for film, televisions and new media industries, ACM SIGGRAPH also puts on a variety of programs year-round and worldwide to benefit the SIGGRAPH community. The event listed above is hosted by our local chapter and is free for all chapter members.
updates 20070313
- updated vc blog
- updated events
We’ve just had an opportunity to get Anthos Simon, General Manager of Efilm to come share his wealth of knowledge of crucial things you need to know to work to a film standard with DVFx and so we’ve postponed Showreel Showdown till further notice. Please come along to hear what Anthos has to say.
Date: Wednesday 5th March 2008
Time: 7:00pm to approx 8:00pm
Venue: Elwynn Lynn Conference Centre, College of Fine Arts (CoFA), Selwyn St, Paddington
Speaker: Anthos Simon
What’s it all about?
Digital Effects Technical Workshop with Anthos Simon, General Manager Efilm. Anthos has led the introduction of digital services for Atlab and will share his wealth of knowledge from films such as Dark City, The Matrix, Hero, and Happy Feet. He will be covering:
- film stock
- lenses
- colour space
- aspect ratios
- D/Is
- scanning & recording
- on-set data collection
- camera sheets
and other crucial things to know to work to film standard in DVFx. Anthos is also one of my all-time favorite people, he is a goldmine of information and experience and I absolutely urge you to come and hear what he has to say! It will be one of those nights where things you’ve heard about suddenly all start to make sense.
