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Visual Effects: Are Computer Graphics Always the Answer?

By Kristy Barkan Up until the mid ‘90s, effects artists were people who made things with their hands. They wore paint-spattered clothing and rifled through tool boxes. They created aliens out of latex, turned foam into granite and constructed nine-foot...

Spotlight on SIGGRAPH: S3 Provides the Tools for Success

By Deja Collins, in collaboration with S3 Chair Corinne Price Editor's note: Spotlight on SIGGRAPH is a recurring feature, established to shed light on the various committees and avenues of volunteering within ACM SIGGRAPH and its annual conferences. Established...

Spotlight on Research: Moving Beyond MoCap

On December 6, 2014, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, presented a study entitled MoSh: Motion and Shape Capture from Sparse Markers. Their research, published in the SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 edition of ACM Transactions...

President Obama Lands the First 3D Presidential Portrait

By Kristy Barkan In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama made room in his speech to talk about a subject that some may have found an odd choice for a presidential address: 3D printing. His comments on 3D printing were positive, noting that the...

Visual Effects Society Honors Ridley Scott with Award

Today, the Visual Effects Society (VES) announced director-producer Ridley Scott as the recipient of this year's VES Lifetime Achievement Award. The award, which will be presented at the 13th Annual VES Awards in early 2015, is given to individuals who...

SIGGRAPH Asia Previews Accessible to Wider Audience

Both the North American SIGGRAPH conference and SIGGRAPH Asia are well attended by international audiences, and though most attendees understand English, there is a difference between grasping a language and being fully comfortable digesting complex research in that...

Perfecting Destruction: Racing Game Focuses on the Crash

By Cody Welsh Ask any serious gamer about some of the coolest developments in the field, and you’re bound to run across Bugbear Entertainment’s “Next Car Game.” Bugbear is best known for its “FlatOut” game series, which is much in the same vein...

USC Student Chapter to Attend SIGGRAPH 2015 in Force

Members of the newly-launched USC ACM SIGGRAPH Student Chapter are particularly well positioned to volunteer for SIGGRAPH 2015. Literally. The University of Southern California is just two miles from the Los Angeles Convention Center, which will host SIGGRAPH...

Newly Formed Tehran ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter Flourishes

It's becoming evident that Tehran, Iran, has a vibrant computer graphics community. The Tehran ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter, founded in the spring of 2014, is already hosting events that draw crowds of attendees. This month, Tehran ACM SIGGRAPH put on an...

ACM Transactions on Graphics Seeks Editor-in-Chief

ACM Transactions on Graphics is the foremost peer-reviewed journal in the field of computer graphics. The term of the journal's current editor-in-chief — Julie Dorsey of Yale University — is ending, and the ACM Publications Board has assembled a...