This is a hands-on workshop on digital fine art creation and perfecting your final print.

Stephen Burns, the author of CS5 Trickery & FX takes you on a journey of creative possibilities to fine art creation. He shares digital creative techniques and how to optimize your imagery for successful final output. Jack Duganne, the originator of the printmaking term giclée, summarizes the process of digitally printing your final version.

How to creatively integrate 3D models into Photoshop CS5 Extended to create concept art. This session focuses on how to import, texture, and build a mate painting with third-party 3D models in CS5.

Advances in real-time graphics research and the ever-increasing power of mainstream GPUs and consoles continue to generate an explosion of innovative algorithms suitable for fast, interactive rendering of complex and engaging virtual worlds. Every year, the latest video games employ a vast variety of sophisticated algorithms to produce ground-breaking 3D rendering that pushs the visual boundaries and interactive experience of rich environments.

This course is the next installment in the established series of SIGGRAPH courses on real-time rendering. It summarizes the best graphics practices and research from the game-development community and provides practical and production-proven algorithms. The first part of the course includes speakers from the makers of several award-winning games, such as Electronic Arts (Vancouver, Montréal, and Black Box), Treyarch, Sony Online, and CCP Games. The focus is on the intersection between the game-development community and state-of-the-art 3D graphics research, and the potential for cross-pollination of knowledge in future games and other interactive applications.

COURSE SCHEDULE

2 pm
Welcome
Tatarchuk

2 pm
More Performance Without Quality Compromise: Five Rendering Ideas From Battlefield 3
White & Barre-Brisebois

2:50 pm
Physically Based Lighting in Call of Duty: Black Ops
Lazarov

3:30 pm
Real-Time Image Quilting: Arbitrary Material Blends, Invisible Seams, and No Repeats
Malan

4:15 pm
Dynamic Lighting in God of War 3
Filippov

4:45 pm
Pre-Integrated Skin Shading
Penner

2020 3D Media is researching new ways of capturing, producing, and exhibiting S3D and immersive audiovisual content. This interdisciplinary meeting presents the approach and first results.

A metric for predicting visible differences (discrimination) and image quality (MOS) in high-dynamic-range images. The metric is based on new contrast sensitivity measurements and calibrated against several datasets. The visibility predictions are shown to be improved compared to the original HDR-VDP and VDP metrics.

An optical architecture for HDR imaging that allows simultaneous capture of high-, medium-, and low-exposure images, and an HDR merging algorithm that avoids undesired artifacts. This paper explains implementation of a prototype HDR-video system and present sresults from the acquired HDR video.

A perceptually based algorithm for modeling the color shift that occurs for human viewers in low-light scenes. Known as the Purkinje effect, this color shift occurs as the eye transitions from photopic, cone-mediated vision in well-lit scenes to scotopic, rod-mediated vision in dark scenes.

Changing the color of an object is a basic image-editing operation, but a high-quality result must also preserve natural shading. This approach decomposes illumination into direct lighting and indirect illumination from individual materials to consistently modify material colors and their associated interreflections.

Using multiple software suites and tools in 2D and 3D in tandem to quickly create concept illustrations.

The stereoscopic conversions of Disney's "The Lion King" and "Beauty and the Beast" required development of novel techniques for art direction, editing, and visualization of 3D stereoscopic depth without the use of geometric models.

CANCELLED

A concrete survey of stereo film-making techniques based on three recent Moving Picture Company projects.

Production of "Inazuma Eleven: the Movie" required a set of new tools to enable conversion from Japanese animation to 3D stereoscopic movie. This talk summarizes those in-house tools and how OLM used Japanese animation specificity to build up an efficient conversion system.

Processing.js 1.0, a complete port of the Processing language, brings interactive 2D and 3D graphics to the web without the use of plug-ins.

In recent years, several activities and foundations have generated large improvements in the general graphics community in Austria. This talk presents endeavors that culminated in the internet forum CGForum.at, the international PIXEL conference, and the Interest Group on Computer Graphics.

Christoph Staber
Kris (at) arxanima.com

Ralf Habel
Ralf (at) cg.tuwien.ac.at

This technique renders texture-seam-free meshes without unwrapping the model into UV space at interactive frame rates.