COMPUTER ANIMATION FESTIVAL SIGGRAPH 2010 SIGGRAPH 2010 Computer Animation Festival program is made possible by Computer Graphics World magazine, a longtime SIGGRAPH media partner. Produced by COP Communications and KYX. Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH. SIGGRAPH2010
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COMPUTER ANIMATION FESTIVALSIGGRAPH 2010
SIGGRAPH 2010 Computer Animation Festival program is made possible by Computer Graphics World magazine, a longtime SIGGRAPH media partner. Produced by COP Communications and KYX. Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH.
SIGGRAPH2010
CGW ADINSIDE FRONT COVER
Welcome to the SIGGRAPH 2010 Computer Animation Festival (CAF), the international event that continues to be the premier place where creativity and innovation meet technology and industry.
We are proud to present a unique mix of independent creations and works by prominent production houses and studios, a mix of personal visions, and mainstream computer animations and visual effects.
Our distinguished jury went through hundreds of entries and assembled a selection of works with the highest value of originality, craft, storytelling, experimentation, and/or technology.
We have brought back the Electronic Theater, the tribal SIGGRAPH experience with an identical program three nights in a row, and we have included most of the Jury Selections in it. We have also assembled a few Special Screenings that we know you will enjoy: you will enjoy: TV Commercials and Cinematics, Shorts and Long Shorts, Student Animation, and a Special Focus on Chinese Student Animation.
This year the festival jury voted on submissions strictly within categories, and that proved to be a good system to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. We formalized ten festival submission categories: Computer Animation Shorts, Music Videos, TV and Web Commercials, Visualizations and Simulations, Student Projects, Animated Feature Films, Visual Effects for Short Films and TV Programs, Visual Effects for Live-Action Feature Films, Real-Time Animation, and Miscellaneous.
For the first time in SIGGRAPH history, we took technology a step further by having all projects uploaded online in final resolution at submission time, with many works in high-definition digital format. No tapes, no hard disks, just good old Internet.
We hope you are able to attend the impressive collection of cutting-edge and visionary Production Sessions, the new Animation Clinic, and the Live Real-Time Demos that complement the festival screenings. Enjoy the show!
Isaac Kerlow SIGGRAPH 2010 Computer Animation Festival Director
Poppy is an independent short set on France’s Western Front in WW I. Two New Zealand soldiers are trapped behind enemy lines. They find a baby in a muddy ditch, under its dead parents. One of the men wants to save it, the other does not. Based on true events, Poppy was written by the great-grandson of one of these soldiers.
Loom tells the story of a moth being drowned in one of nature’s complex cycles. It is a final project at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction. Production time, including story development and preproduction, was one year.
In this student project, a girl enters a mysterious hospital that alters her way of seeing beauty. She is given a choice between two images of her face, “Before” and “After”. As she continues on this illusionary journey, she realizes that beauty is something very different from what she expected.
The SIGGRAPH 2010 Computer Animation Festival offers, for the first time ever, an Animation Clinic. In this event, industry leaders and masters review student final projects and offer creative, production, technical, and career advice.
Each chosen work will receive 40 minutes of review during two public sessions open to conference attendees. Material reviewed may include a synopsis, a story line, storyboards, animation tests, examples of visual development, and character design. Selected projects to be announced on-site.
Dir. Wang Xiaoli
The White World 白宇宙
China Academy of Art20095’00”
Dir. Hong Wanli
The Robbery 十字坡打店
China Academy of Art20105’45”
Dir. Zhou Wei, Jiao Qingyuan
Vanity Bonsai 浮景
Communication University of China20105’07”
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FESTIVAL STATISTICS
TOTAL CAF SUBMISSIONS * 750
CAF STUDENT SUBMISSIONS * 290
TOTAL CAF SELECTED ENTRIES ** 91
CAF JURY SELECTIONS 45
CAF INVITED ENTRIES *, *** 30
CAF SELECTED ENTRIES, BY CATEGORY
Computer Animation Shorts 27
TV and Web Commercials 23
Student Animation 21
Real-Time and Cinematics 7
Visual Effects for Live-Action Feature Films 5
Visualizations and Simulations 3
Music Videos 2
Visual Effects for Short Films and TV Programs 2
Animated Feature Films 1
CAF SUBMISSIONS, BY REGION
North America 38%
Europe 30%
Asia 24%
South America and Caribbean 3%
Australia and New Zealand 2%
Middle East 2%
Africa 1%
LRTD SUBMISSIONS, BY REGION
North America 32
Europe 11
Asia 12
Middle East 1
South America and Caribbean 1
LRTD SELECTED ENTRIES, BY REGION
North America 6
Europe 5
Asia 1
NOTES
* Rounded-off numbers.
* * Includes Jury Selections.
* * * Includes Hollywood Studio Feature Films, and selections from the Japan Media Arts Festival, and the Beijing-based Aniwow! Festival.
TOTAL LRTD SUBMISSIONS 57
LRTD JURY SELECTIONS 12
CAF SELECTED ENTRIES, BY REGION
North America 41
Europe 39
Asia 6
South America and Caribbean 2
Australia and New Zealand 3
38 39
SPECIAL THANKS
Walt Disney Animation StudiosSohonet
AMDEarth Observatory of SingaporeHydraulx VFXIntel CorporationIron Light DigitalLa Station AnimationMagic Castle HotelNanyang Technological UniversityNVIDIA CorporationPilötTHQ
Warren Betts Scott A. CampbellBill CaparellaMelissa FanfassianAndrew FowlerBrent HallAdam HorsewoodRichard LinecarBrian S. MillmanAndrew MillsteinRamon Montoya-VozmedianoArt RepolaBerenice RobinsonLutzner RodriguezBen RoederChris TaylorEric Whitfield