This course examines the purposes and value of stories and storytelling as they relate to the classical story structure. The role of genres and cliches is examined as they relate to storytelling. The top five storytelling techniques are presented in detail, with many examples. The 10 principles of animation are revisited from a storytelling point of view. Classical story design and structure are presented as a simple and powerful model that travels across cultures and generations. And the five parts of a classical story are analyzed in detail. The course concludes with a summary of characterization and revelation of deep character. Short exercises complement the lectures and dialog.

The rapidly changing capabilities of modern graphics processing units (GPUs) require that developers understand how to combine parallel-programming techniques with the traditional interactive rendering pipeline exposed by OpenGL and Direct3D. This course demonstrates how to combine traditional rendering APIs with advanced parallel computation using OpenCL (Open Computing Language), a cross-platform API for programming parallel systems such as GPUs. The course presenters are experts on general-purpose GPU computation and advanced rendering from academia and industry, and have presented papers and tutorials on the topic at SIGGRAPH, Graphics Hardware, Supercomputing, and elsewhere.

The first section reviews the basics of the OpenCL API, including a "Hello World" application written in OpenCL. Attendees with laptops will be able to try the examples on their own during the course. The second section covers more advanced cases, including how to write applications that interact with standard graphics APIs. The final section includes performance-optimization "tips and tricks" for writing OpenCL applications.

Compared with console games, online games have unique characteristics that require more complicated design of software architecture. This course delivers state-of-the-art technologies for making online games from clients to servers. Topics include advanced production secrets in developing the world’s best online games. Attendees learn what to consider in making advanced online games and how to optimize them to meet the increasing performance demands of future online environments. The course is taught by lead programmers and software engineers from Crytek, ETRI, NCSoft, and Intel.

A SIGGRAPH conference is an exciting event, but it is often an intimidating experience for first-time attendees. There are so many new terms, new ideas, and new product concepts to try to understand. It is like standing in a room with 100 doors and having no idea which door to open because you have no idea what the label on each door actually means. This leaves new attendees baffled and frustrated about how to spend their time. This course is designed to ease newcomers into the SIGGRAPH Asia conference experience by presenting the fundamental concepts and vocabulary at a level that can be readily understood. Far from being made up of dry facts, this course will also portray the fun and excitement that led most of us here in the first place. Attendees in the course will become well-prepared to understand, appreciate, enjoy, network, and learn from the rest of the SIGGRAPH Asia experience.

This is a half-day Beginning course. This course will be given lecture-style. There will be PowerPoint slides and live demos showing the use of computer graphics in applications These will be used to illustrate fundamental concepts (e.g., here is an image with and without perspective) and to illustrate those concepts in applications (e.g., here is the use of perspective in a visualization application and why you have to be careful when using it). The source code for the graphics program demos will be included on the conference DVD so that attendees can use them in their own applications and classes as well.

Because this is the first time that SIGGRAPH is being held in Korea, an introductory course taught by experienced practioners will be an important aspect of the conference.

This course presents a publisher's perspective on development opportunities related to the pursuit of new intellectual property, work for hire on existing portfolio needs, and possible acquisition off external, independent developers.

The course explores four key questions:

1. What are publishers looking for these days?
2. How does a small, independent developer get traction when risks are high and investment is scarce?
3. How does the publisher's perspective change based on the genre and/or the region for product opportunities?
4. What is the best way to pitch a company and/or a product-development opportunity?

The course ends with a question-and-answer session.

Presented in cooperation with the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.

Languages, Tools, and APIs for GPU Computing
9:00-9:50 am
This talk covers the key features and differences between the major programming languages, APIs, and development tools available today. It also explains several high-level design patterns for consumer, professional, and HPC applications, with practical programming considerations for each.
Scott Fitzpatrick
NVIDIA Corporation

Introduction to Programming for CUDA C
10:00-10:50 am
This presentation teaches the basics of programming GPUS . For anyone with a background in C or C++, it explains everything necessary to start programming in CUDA C. Explore the various APIs available to CUDA applications and learn the best (and worst) ways to employ them in applications. The concepts are illustrated with step-by-step walkthroughs of code samples.

Samuel Gateau
NVIDIA Corporation

Computational Photography, Real-Time Plenoptic Rendering
11:00-11:50 am
Learn how to change the focus of an image after it has been captured. Get the latest information on GPU-based plenoptic rendering, including a demonstration of refocusing, novel view generation, polarization, high-dynamic-range imaging, and stereo 3D. Learn how GPU hardware enables interactive plenoptic rendering with high-resolution imagery, and how this process opens up entirely new possibilities for modern photography.

Todor Georgiev
Adobe Systems Incorporated

Andrew Lumsdaine
Indiana University

Using 3D Stereoscopic Solutions in Broadcast and Film Production
12:00-12:50 pm
Film, television, and the entire digital-content industry are undergoing a stereoscopic 3D revolution. 3D stereoscopic techniques provide an entirely new way to tell a story to your audience. Learn how software tools and hardware work together to make stereoscopic 3D production and distribution possible.

Andrew Page
NVIDIA Corporation

Developer Tools for the GPU: Parallel Nsight & AXE
1:00-1:50 pm
Learn about NVIDIA's latest software-development tools. The first half of this session explains how NVIDIA's range of professional software makes it easy for application developers to maximize the power of professional GPUs to deliver ultimate experiences and capabilities within their products and for their customers. Many of these offerings benefit end users directly, as they push the boundaries of what's possible in graphics and visual computing.

The second half of the session covers NVIDIA’s Parallel Nsight development environment for Windows. Parallel Nsight, fully integrated into Visual Studio 2010, introduces native GPU debugging and platform-wide performance analysis tools for both computing and graphics developers.

Phillip Miller
Samuel Gateau
NVIDIA Corporation

DX11 Tessellation
2:00-2:50 pm
This talk provides a comprehensive overview of Direct3D11 tessellation technology. It not only demonstrates how to leverage Direct3D11 tessellation to take your games to the next level, but also addresses crucial practical issues. It also presents a few breathtaking practical examples and demonstrates how these advanced techniques have been adopted into gaming source engines.

Tianyun Ni
NVIDIA Corporation

Using the GPU for Visual Effects for Film & Video
3:00-4:30 pm
Learn from NVIDIA partners who are working with the GPU to improve visual effects for film and video."Avatar" Case Study: Accelerating Out-Of-Core Ray Tracing of Sparsely Sampled Occlusion with Pantaray
3:00-3:30 pm
Modern VFX rendering pipelines confront major complexity challenges: a film like "Avatar" requires rendering hundreds of thousands of frames, each containing hundreds of millions or billions of polygons. Furthermore, the process of lighting requires many rendering iterations across all shots. This talk presents the architecture of an efficient out-of-core ray-tracing system designed to make rendering precomputations of gigantic assets practical on GPUs. The system, dubbed PantaRay, leverages development of modern ray-tracing algorithms for massively parallel GPU architectures and combines them with new out-of-core streaming and level-of-detail rendering techniques.
Luca Fascione
Sebastian Sylwan
Weta Digital
Additional speakers and topics coming soon.

CUDA and Fermi Optimization Techniques
4:45-6:00 pm
This talk presents a detailed technical overview of implementing CUDA on Fermi for various algorithms: Monte Carlo simulation, finite-difference method, and some useful image processing algorithms. Learn how to implement these algorithms on Fermi-based CUDA architecture and how to use new Fermi features and optimize to achieve optimum performance on these applications.

Hyungon Ryu
NVIDIA Corporation

Presentations will be available for download on the SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 and NVIDIA web sites soon after the workshop.

Autodesk showcases its latest Digital Entertainment Creation (DEC) technology and how it enables cutting-edge pipelines for games, film, and television production.

This is your opportunity to:

• Hear from Autodesk’s guest presenters: Rising Sun Pictures, Lucasfilm Aniamtion, SamG Animation, FXGear, Studio Gale, Digital IDEA, etc. Simultaneous translation is provided in English and Korean.
• Learn how a modern pipeline powered by the latest offerings from Autodesk can help increase your performance, productivity, and creativity.
• Take the Autodesk Mudbox Challenge for a chance to win great prizes.
• Expand your network, learn ,and share information with your peers.

Check here for the latest event and speaker information.

Autodesk demonstrates its latest Digital Entertainment Creation (DEC) technology and how it enables cutting-edge pipelines for game, film, and television production.

The demonstrations are open to all SIGGRAPH Asia 2010 attendees.

Khronos standards are fundamental to many of the technologies on display at SIGGRAPH Asia 2010. If you develop multimedia content for games, DCC, CAD, or mobile devices, you should attend Khronos Group’s DevU (Developer University) to learn about the new industry standards for royalty-free multimedia development:

• Applications driving next-generation handset requirements
• Opportunities opened up by innovation and standardization in graphics and mobile gaming
• Technological advances in multimedia handset technology

This total solution uses scene-feature, example-based automatic converting techniques to convert 2D video to high-quality 3D video and triple productivity.