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CAOSWednesday - November 4, 2009 - 4:00-5:30 PMEngineering Building 1027(Free Pizza & Soda During the Presentation)Professor Bill White from the Department of Computer Science will present material from the SIGGRAPH 2009 conference that he attended in New Orleans in August, including award-winning computer animations, the latest in technological advances in graphics and gaming, and tips on careers in these areas.Computer Graphics Presentation

The Computer Association Of SIUE

JumpGerman pop group Ben*Jammin learns some powerful jumping skills.No shot planning, tracking markers, bluescreens, or any other preparations for the CG shots. After shooting the video, the CG shots were selected from a large amount of raw footage, and 3D models were created to match still images of the footage with camera mapping.Tools used: 3ds Max, Syntheyes, After Effects, PhotoshopAnimation Introduction

ReachAustralian student film produced after work over an 8-month period.Tools used: Windows XP, Maya, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, all on one dual-core desktop computer.SIGGRAPH 2009SIGGRAPH 2009 was the 36th annual conference and exhibition on computer graphics and interactive techniques(only my 14th consecutive attendance!)

What happens at SIGGRAPH? Technical Papers Panel Discussions Production Sessions Keynote Addresses Courses Animation Festival Art Gallery Emerging Technologies Exhibition Student Posters Birds of a Feather Job Fair Movie Screenings Game Talks Fjorg! & GameJam!Day One: CG Jobs

Panel: Getting a Job in CG for Entertainment: Visual Effects, Animation, and Games

Internship demonstrates a passion for the field, do research on company before applying/interviewing Demo Reel/Portfolio show your best work; less than 3 minutes long; first 15 seconds most important Generalist/Specialist generalists are good, but youre applying for a specific job; position-specific demo Photorealism demo reels should emphasize walking, facial expressions, trees not dragons, spaceships Rsum clear/succinct/specific up-front summary, including software/OS experience Network companies accept on-line applications, SIGGRAPH job fair (depends on timing), user groupsPanel: Keeping a Job in CG for Entertainment: Visual Effects, Animation, and Games Indispensability Keep your skills updated, show initiative, play well with others Accomplishments take credit for yours, share credit for teams, give it for others Honesty communicate good and bad news to management, dont overextend yourself Positivity do your job without griping, take a day to develop ideas instead of saying no Reliability standard work must be done quickly so dazzling improvements get needed timeComputer Animation Festival!!!Animation Intermission #1Office Noise(Danish)Tools used: Maya, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere.

Oxygen(Ringling School of Art & Design)Tools used: HP Workstations, Maya, RenderMan, Shake, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Tsunami, Realflow.PoPoLei(French)Tools used: Maya, Flame.Wild Dogs(Ringling School of Art & Design)Tools used: HP Workstations, Maya, RenderMan, Shake, Photoshop, Premiere, Tsunami.

Day Two: Show & Tell

Emerging TechnologiesKeynote Address: Will Wright

Exhibition

Talk: Peter Sohn, Director of Pixars Partly CloudyAnimation Intermission #2Penguins(British)Tools used: XSI Final Cut Pro.Ultimate Break(French)Tools used: 3ds Max, V-ray, Z-Brush, After Effects.

Alma(Spanish)Tools used: 3ds Max, After Effects, Maxwell Render.Pigeon: Impossible(U.S.A.)Tools used: XSI, Shake, Combustion, Photoshop, After Effects.

Day Three: Papers

Kinesthetic Movement in Games IReduced Physics for AnimationCreating Natural Variations

Day Four: More Papers

Character Animation IKinesthetic Movement in Games IITalks: Capturing and Visualizing Animation

Animation FinaleProject: Alpha(Danish)Tools used: Maya, Photoshop, After Effects, Fusion, ZBrushFriends?(Canadian)Tools used: Maya, Softimage, RenderMan, Nuke, After Effects, Premiere.

Insight(Danish)Tools used: Maya, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Digital Fusion.Window Pains(Savannah College of Arts & Design)Tools used: HP Desktop PCs, Macintosh Power PCs, Wacom Cintiqs, Windows XP, Mac OSX, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, Maya, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, DigiDesign Pro Tools.

SIGGRAPH 2010Want to attend?Apply to be a student volunteer!18-hour volunteers have registration fees waived!30-hour volunteers may receive complimentary housing and may apply for travel assistance!On-line applications have just begun Deadline: 2/15/2010http://www.siggraph.org/s2010/call_for_volunteers/student_volunteers/index