Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Siggraph - Tuesday Afternoon and Evening

This afternoon we went to the Electronic Theater matinee and saw two hours of the years best animations. They were presented on the best digital projection system I have ever seen. The realism that can be achieved today is downright spooky. We also saw a great two hour presentation from Phil Tippets, Dennis Muren, and Rob Coleman who were the main special effects guys from Star Wars episodes 1-6. It was a retrospective of old techniques as well as some interesting detail of current CG techniques. Really, there wasn't much live action at all in Episode III - just the main actors on a small platform surrounded by CG environments.

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