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Visual Effects Society Names Keynote

Visual Effects Society Names Director/Producer/Writer Ava DuVernay A Keynote Speaker at 2017 VES Summit   Los Angeles (SEPTEMBER 6, 2017) – Today, the Visual Effects Society (VES), the industry’s global professional honorary society, announced...

Join the GRAPHICS-WORLDWIDE Listserv

One of the initiatives in the "Grow and Develop an Active CG Community and Idea Marketplace" in the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee's strategic proposal is to create a moderated Graphic listserv where you as a...

View Conference 2017

VIEW Conference 2017 Announces Final Program Registration Now Open for the October 23-27 Symposium in Turin, Italy Award Entry deadline: September 15.  www.viewconference.it   With more than 50 speakers confirmed for the...

ACM SIGGRAPH Launches New Strategy

In this changing world, ACM SIGGRAPH requires a new and bolder vision. In response to this need, the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee (EC) commissioned a diverse cross-discipline team to develop an overarching five year strategic initiative to ensure our organization...

ACM SIGGRAPH Announces 2017 Election Results

ACM SIGGRAPH is pleased to announce the results of their annual elections. This year members voted on candidates for the positions of President, Vice President and Director-at-Large. Voting ran from June15th though August 15th, with the new EC members taking office in...

Crafting Valerian's Interdimensional Journey

By Ian Failes. Republished with permission from Spark CG Society. Perhaps the most talked about sequence in Luc Besson’s Valerian & the City of a Thousand Planets is the interdimensional journey undertaken by the title character through a merchant world....

Don't Forget to Vote!

On June 15, members of ACM SIGGRAPH who were in good standing as of May 31, 2017 were sent voting information in an email message or letter from Election Services Corporation (ESC). If ACM does not have an email address on file, members will receive voting information...

How Do You Animate an Emoji?

By Ian Failes. Republished with permission from Spark CG Society. We’ve all probably sent emojis from our smart phones, in our emails, and in messaging apps. Now Sony Animation has taken us into the animated film world of the ubiquitous ideograms with Tony...

Women in Computing: ACM SIGGRAPH Meets ACM-W

By Aruquia Peixoto. Edited by Jessica Sommerville and Diana Arellano. In mid-June, I traveled to NYC for the first time. The trip, however, was not for a vacation. Instead, I was fortunate enough to attend the Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women...