SIGGRAPH 2013, 21 -25 July at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, released the final lineup of 15 Production Sessions to be featured at this year’s conference. These Production Sessions are part of the overall Computer Animation Festival, which is open to the public and accessible for as little as $150.
“There’s only one place where the world’s best creative and technical people converge for a week of exchanging industry know-how and ideas that helps everyone push the boundaries of what is possible forward,” says Jerome Solomon, SIGGRAPH 2013 Production Sessions Chair from Cogswell College. “These incredible production sessions are just one example of what is so great about SIGGRAPH and makes it so unique.”
The Computer Animation Festival, chaired this year by Jason R.M. Smith, is recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival. Since 1999, several works originally presented in the Computer Animation Festival have been nominated for or have received a “Best Animated Short” Academy Award. This year’s selections will be featured during the Computer Animation Festival through a series of daily Festival Screenings and the iconic Electronic Theater, allowing attendees to get a glimpse behind the making of computer generated effects, visualizations, and animations
In all there will be 15 Production Sessions. Here is the full lineup:
Warner Brothers Presents the VFX for ‘Man of Steel’
Tuesday, 7/23, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
The Visual Effects teams from MPC, Weta Digital, Double Negative, Scanline and LookFX will each provide a unique insight into their work on Man of Steel. This session is designed to highlight signature moments from the film and show how creative contributions came from around the globe to help deliver one of the year’s most exciting films. The final Q&A with all five vfx studios is not to be missed.
Panelists:
Dan Lemmon – Visual Effects Supervisor, Weta Digital
Guillaume Rocheron – Visual Effects Supervisor, MPC
Ged Wright – Visual Effects Supervisor, Double Negative
Stephan Trojansky, President/Sr. VFX Supervisor, Scanline VFX
Max Ivins – Visual Effects Supervisor, LOOK Effects
Blue Sky Studios Presents: The Fantastical World of Epic
Wednesday, 7/24, 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM
At Blue Sky Studios we have always taken inspiration from nature, and that is certainly true of our latest movie, Epic. For example, the armor of the Leafmen was inspired by the multi-segmented exoskeleton of crickets. Their costumes use iris petals instead of muslin fabric, and thistle down instead of tulle. Looking at real-world physics, Leafmen could jump more than twice their height, and their sense of time would be sped up by the change of scale, which was taken into consideration during animation. Along with that, the selective use of a wider-than-usual lens package helped us tell a story about a seemingly distant and fantastical world that feels right at your fingertips. We plan to show this process, along with portions of Epic, which demonstrate these points. We will show some of the reference material that designers and animators used as inspiration and how our cinematography was carefully mapped out in order to better serve our story-telling endeavor.
Panelists:
Mike Knapp, Art Director
Galen Chu, Supervising Animator
Renato Falc�o, Cinematographer
The Making of Pixar’s “The Blue Umbrella”
Sunday, 7/21, 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
A screening of Pixar’s “The Blue Umbrella” will be followed by a “Making-of” presentation with the director Saschka Unseld. He will retrace his journey from discovery of the idea all the way through the Pixar story process and onto the big screen. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the artistry and technology that went into every frame and then re-watch “The Blue Umbrella” with new eyes.
Panelist:
Saschka Unseld, Director of Th
