Siggraph stuff
Aug. 1st, 2005 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
njordsifusansooSaw the keynote speech given by George Lucas. Apparently he finds anime interesting and when talking about the tv shows he is going to produce based off the Star Wars universe, he called the live action one live action.
Electronic Theater
-The Electronic Theater was very good. The pre-show was an artist drawing something in 3d using a stylus and joystick; what his strokes produced depended where in song that was playing was at.
-The themed shorts they had interspersed throughout the show were of previs and brainhead (a piece of wadded paper and a brain with glasses) who were based on bevis and butthead.
-There was the animation "Things That Go Bump in the Night". Starts off showing a kid sleeping and two voices from behind a door noticing. A little later, the kid wakes up to a constant bumping. He gets scared, thinking its a monster and runs to his parents room...where he discovers the source of the bumping. After that, he is like young Bart in the Simpsons when he is scared of his bed (Can't sleep, clown will eat me).
-The animation "Cubic Tragedy" was rather funny. It starts off with a animated women deciding to touch up her face while in front of the mirror (she notices the polygons making up her cheeks are not symmetric). So she pulls out a bunch of touch-up tools...the type you find in a graphics editing program (including an undo button). Lets just say she quickly finds out the undo button only goes back one step.
-There was an animation called "Learn Self Defense" that evolved into a criticism of George W. (well, it was a criticism of George W., just it was not obvious until around the "pre-emptive strike" part).
-The did show the intro scene of World of Warcraft. Being projected on a screen (with the high quality projectors they were using) allowed me to see more details I have missed while watching it at home. It also reminded me that this was blizzard's CG people showing off (they did use a variety of visual effects that are cutting edge).
Guerilla Studio
This is where I am working at Siggraph. It basically is a place where attendees can come in and play with some of the technology they will see on display on the exhibition floor.
-In the 3D area (where I am at)...
--3d face scans (what I'm doing)
--laser scanning of small models
--a haptic sculting tool (think force feedback while doing virtual sculpting)
--rapid prototyping (create a plastic object of some volume you have in the computer)
--laser engraving
-Other areas (well some of the other areas)
--high quality 2D prints (banner size prints at > photo quality)
--a buttload of computers(both PCs and Macs) loaded with the latest of graphics programs.
--motion capture
--making holograms
--nail printer
--Cyber Fashion show (well not much to them until the cyber fashion show on Wed.).
Electronic Theater
-The Electronic Theater was very good. The pre-show was an artist drawing something in 3d using a stylus and joystick; what his strokes produced depended where in song that was playing was at.
-The themed shorts they had interspersed throughout the show were of previs and brainhead (a piece of wadded paper and a brain with glasses) who were based on bevis and butthead.
-There was the animation "Things That Go Bump in the Night". Starts off showing a kid sleeping and two voices from behind a door noticing. A little later, the kid wakes up to a constant bumping. He gets scared, thinking its a monster and runs to his parents room...where he discovers the source of the bumping. After that, he is like young Bart in the Simpsons when he is scared of his bed (Can't sleep, clown will eat me).
-The animation "Cubic Tragedy" was rather funny. It starts off with a animated women deciding to touch up her face while in front of the mirror (she notices the polygons making up her cheeks are not symmetric). So she pulls out a bunch of touch-up tools...the type you find in a graphics editing program (including an undo button). Lets just say she quickly finds out the undo button only goes back one step.
-There was an animation called "Learn Self Defense" that evolved into a criticism of George W. (well, it was a criticism of George W., just it was not obvious until around the "pre-emptive strike" part).
-The did show the intro scene of World of Warcraft. Being projected on a screen (with the high quality projectors they were using) allowed me to see more details I have missed while watching it at home. It also reminded me that this was blizzard's CG people showing off (they did use a variety of visual effects that are cutting edge).
Guerilla Studio
This is where I am working at Siggraph. It basically is a place where attendees can come in and play with some of the technology they will see on display on the exhibition floor.
-In the 3D area (where I am at)...
--3d face scans (what I'm doing)
--laser scanning of small models
--a haptic sculting tool (think force feedback while doing virtual sculpting)
--rapid prototyping (create a plastic object of some volume you have in the computer)
--laser engraving
-Other areas (well some of the other areas)
--high quality 2D prints (banner size prints at > photo quality)
--a buttload of computers(both PCs and Macs) loaded with the latest of graphics programs.
--motion capture
--making holograms
--nail printer
--Cyber Fashion show (well not much to them until the cyber fashion show on Wed.).
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Date: 2005-08-02 07:00 am (UTC)It was pretty slick. The machine could do some really complex stuff (including working springs and the like).
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Date: 2005-08-02 09:36 pm (UTC)The 3D face scans sound kinda like a project I had to do for my linear algebra class first semester last year... I found it, um, not so fun... hehe, hope you enjoy it more.
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Date: 2005-08-03 04:38 am (UTC)this is the main site (http://prism.asu.edu/3dface/default.asp) for the 3d face scan project we are doing at ASU (its the scanner we brought to Siggraph).