This year’s Technical Papers program will focus on peer-reviewed research in fluid, character and crowd animation, sampling and filtering, geometric and volumetric reconstruction, modeling and rendering, computational imaging and video and imaging hardware. 50 papers were finally selected to be presented this year. They will be published in the December 2010 issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics in early December 2010. 30 Courses Programs will add greater diversity to the range of topics this year with presenters from Blizzard Entertainment, Pixar Animation Studios, Industrial Light & Magic, Microsoft & Microsoft Game Studios, NVIDIA, ARM, Google, Weta Digital, Disney Imagineering, KAIST, MIT Media Lab, Jeju National University, and Seoul National University. Selected Courses sessions will be conducted in Korean to cater to the local community.

SIGGRAPH Asia’s first featured speaker, McLaren Automotive Design Director Frank Stephenson explores how computer graphics technologies have empowered the fields of expertise in automotive design, with an in-depth look at how his world-class design team looks even beyond what’s next to challenge the future. The second featured speaker, Mr. Jae-Dong Park shares how humorous illustrations and comics may be turned into animation. Hailed for his outstanding contributions to the video game industry, Hyung-tae Kim is a Korean artist whose great talent lies behind the art creation in games such as the Magna Carta series and War of Genesis: Tempest to name a few. His session will center on Blade & Soul, an Asian martial arts fantasy with cultural influences mainly from the Korean culture.

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Online registration is available until 14 December 2010.