http://sydney.siggraph.org.au A Professional Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:27:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Posted agenda for 2008 AGM, previous minutes, plus financial statements, see August event for more info http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2008/2008-agm-agenda-posted 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 ... http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/event/2008/electronic-theatre-screening 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 ... http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/event/2008/new-techniques-for-acquiring-rendering-and-displaying-human-performances 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 ... http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/bios/2008/paul-debevec facegroup available for up-to-date Sydney ACM SIGGRAPH members now available here http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2008/facebook-group 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 ... http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/event/2008/special-event-rogue 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 ... http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/event/2008/working-with-clients updates 20070313 updated vc blog updated events http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2008/march-08-updates 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. ... http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/vc-blog/2008/march-08 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 ... http://sydney.siggraph.org.au/asides/2008/anthos-simon