SIGGRAPH 2010 Blender 3D Birds of a Feather session 2 part 01 featuring Jason van Gumster talking about the use of Blender 3D in his project for the 48 Hour Film Project.

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The Blender Foundation will not have its own booth at SIGGRAPH this year. Instead, two ‘Birds of a Feather’ meetings will be held. During the ‘Blender Community Meeting’, Ton Roosendaal will discuss this year’s results and give a sneak preview of Sintel. At the ‘Durian & Blender Artist Showcase’ you’ll see more Sintel and community art work. For more info, visit Blender.org.

For those of you who have complained in the past as to why I cover SIGGRAPH on this site, I give you the following papers trailer. As I’ve stated before, that in addition to the Blender conferences held there  SIGGRAPH also leads to new ideas for animation software including Blender.

Note the coverage of  E.D. and Nils Thurey papers. (See the film credits for details)

And yes, I will be at SIGGRAPH this year and hope to bring you some exciting interviews.

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(Chicago, IL) – ACM SIGGRAPH announces the selection of Don Marinelli, a leading Carnegie Mellon scholar and educator, to give one of its keynote presentations at SIGGRAPH, the 37th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Sunday 25 July – Thursday, 29 July 2010 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.

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Share your best work and become one of “The People Behind the Pixels” at SIGGRAPH 2010 this July in Los Angeles, California. Thousands of industry professionals will gather at the Los Angeles Convention Center for the 37th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, and they need to know about your work.

SIGGRAPH 2010 is now accepting submissions from everyone who has a hand in inspiring, creating, producing, or teaching computer graphics and interactive techniques. Important deadlines are quickly approaching. So be sure to submit your best work as soon as possible!

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(Chicago, IL) – ACM SIGGRAPH announces the 2010 Call for Submissions for contributors and volunteers for the 37th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Sunday 25 July – Thursday, 29 July 2010 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.

SIGGRAPH 2010 will bring together the “People Behind the Pixels” – the brightest minds in computer graphics to share ideas and knowledge on many diverse industry disciplines. From students to studio executives, from scientists to researchers, SIGGRAPH provides contributors with the opportunity to present their work to the world.

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Ton Roosendaal writes:

Brad Peebler, President of Luxology, invited me to have a meeting at Siggraph to start a friendly relation and check on ways how we can make Modo and Blender work together smoothly for our users.

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Here’s another mini-report and some photographs by Ton. He writes:

This is just 5 minutes of the Blender booth in action, lots of attention, people having fun, and Bassam editing his last changes for the Tube trailer he likes to show!

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Registration for SIGGRAPH 2009 is now open! There are several registration options available to help you customize your experience at SIGGRAPH in New Orleans.

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(Chicago, IL) – In response to a successful expanded format in 2008, the SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival will again be open to the public and feature a comprehensive collection of juried and invited screenings that will showcase the most recent advances in computer-generated imagery. In addition, the Festival will feature presentations and panels that focus on the art, science, and technology that are used to create the latest advances in production and projection of digital cinema and visualizations. The festival is also expanding its general call for submissions to include Visual Music and Real-Time Rendering.

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