Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH » asides http://sydney.siggraph.org.au A Professional Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:13:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Videos from the 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference in Vancouverhttp://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2011/videos-from-the-2011-acm-siggraph-conference-in-vancouver http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2011/videos-from-the-2011-acm-siggraph-conference-in-vancouver#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:53:20 +0000 sydgraph http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/?p=670 At each year’s conference the ACM SIGGRAPH Communications Committee, chaired by Jaime Radwan, and the ACM SIGGRAPH Chapters ( through our SCOOP Team) collaborate on a series of videos that are made available through the ACM SIGGRAPH YouTube channel. These videos are used to highlight different parts of the conference, promote upcoming conferences, and provide materials that can be used by both ACM SIGGRAPH and non-ACM SIGGRAPH entities to inform people about what goes on at an ACM SIGGRAPH conference.

They are available here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ACMSIGGRAPH#g/c/0549F3430D7DBD50

This year, we produced and posted the following collection of videos:

- Overviews of The Sandbox, Emerging Technologies, The Studio, The CAF, Posters, The Art Gallery and The Exhibition Floor
- Media Tours for The Art Gallery and Emerging Technologies
- Artist Profiles for several Art Gallery contributors
- Several Man On The Street segments (We pose a question to people and take the best responses.)
- Three Day In Review segments

We have also posted the Cory Doctorow Keynote address so if you did not get to see it at the conference, you can take a look at it online.

]]> http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2011/videos-from-the-2011-acm-siggraph-conference-in-vancouver/feed 0 a showreel how-to in 3D World Magazinehttp://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2011/a-showreel-how-to-in-3d-world-magazine http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2011/a-showreel-how-to-in-3d-world-magazine#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:00:54 +0000 sydgraph http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/?p=553 A friend in Norway recommends an article on how to make a great showreel in the current issue of 3D World (see http://www.3dworldmag.com/2011/05/03/3d-world-143-monster-modelling-and-more/) (thanks Kim!)

]]> http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2011/a-showreel-how-to-in-3d-world-magazine/feed 0 posted links for Animationesehttp://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2011/posted-links-for-animationese http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2011/posted-links-for-animationese#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:16:08 +0000 sydgraph http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/?p=538 see this post for the links from Animationese (or last event back in November 2010)

]]> http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2011/posted-links-for-animationese/feed 0 events for 2011http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2011/events-updated http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2011/events-updated#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:55:53 +0000 sydgraph http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/?p=520 I’ve updated the events for 2011 and we’re hoping to see you all make it to as many as you can. The details will be clarified as we approach the dates so please check the site regularly or keep in touch via Facebook, or Twitter.

]]> http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2011/events-updated/feed 0 thanks for joining us in 2010http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/thanks-for-joining-us-in-2010 http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/thanks-for-joining-us-in-2010#comments Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:56:12 +0000 sydgraph http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/?p=476 Our thanks go out to everyone who joined us as a speaker, a member or a guest at Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH in 2010. We’ll be posting a schedule for events in 2011 shortly.

]]> http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/thanks-for-joining-us-in-2010/feed 0 VES post SIGGRAPH LA 2010 eventhttp://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/ves-post-siggraph-2010-event http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/ves-post-siggraph-2010-event#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:38:57 +0000 sydgraph http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/?p=420

The Australian Chapter of the Visual Effects Society have organised for a number of our visual effects colleagues who attended Siggraph in LA a few weeks ago to speak at an informal get-together about what interested them at this year’s conference.

We would like to extend an invitation to any Siggraph members in the Sydney area to join us.

Our event will be at Fringe Bar in Paddington on Wednesday the 25th of August from 6.30pm (for a 7pm start)
www.thefringe.com.au/

The night will be $30 a head to cover catering.

If anyone is interested in attending, could they please email me via jason@fuelvfx.com by Friday lunchtime (sorry for the late notice)

Cheers,
Jason

]]> http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/ves-post-siggraph-2010-event/feed 0 upcoming AGM and electionhttp://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/upcoming-agm-and-election http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/upcoming-agm-and-election#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:16:12 +0000 sydgraph http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/?p=331 here for details about the event. Here for general information about the election. Click here to see the nominees so far. Continue reading →]]> We have an upcoming AGM on the 18th of August which will include elections for all board members positions. See here for details about the event. Here for general information about the election. Click here to see the nominees so far.

]]> http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/upcoming-agm-and-election/feed 0 Sydney GPU Users group meeting 1/7/2010http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/sydney-gpu-users-group-meeting-172010 http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/sydney-gpu-users-group-meeting-172010#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:21:31 +0000 sydgraph http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/?p=306 Sydney GPU Users group is having their first ever meeting tomorrow, 1st July 2010 @ 5:30PM at the University of Sydney campus on Cleveland Street. See here for details. Continue reading →]]> The Sydney GPU Users group is having their first ever meeting tomorrow, 1st July 2010 @ 5:30PM at the University of Sydney campus on Cleveland Street. See here for details.

]]> http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/sydney-gpu-users-group-meeting-172010/feed 0 new website livehttp://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/new-website-live http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/new-website-live#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:20:33 +0000 sydgraph http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/?p=287 Continue reading →]]> So I’ve pushed the new website live hosted on a brand new server. Please let me know what you think. I still have some css styling to do.

]]> http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/new-website-live/feed 0 June’s Education Speed Datehttp://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/junes-education-speed-date http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2010/junes-education-speed-date#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:46:30 +0000 sydgraph http://sydgraph.siggraph.org.au/uncategorized/2010 click here for links to their sites, courses and resources. Continue reading →]]> Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH would like to thank all the speakers who presented on Wednesday night at Education Speed Date

Here are various links to their sites, courses and resources:

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