Siggraph is two weeks away!Are your ready?
Do you have your pass?
Jamie and Angie have provided you
with our ever popular
HOW TO SIGGRAPH!
(updated for this year's 2007 Siggraph event in San Diego)
This document provides all of the information you need regarding
looking for a job,
networking
or just plain what to expect to experience
at the Siggraph convention.
We encourage newbies and old-school-attendees alike,
to check out this informative document
and print it out as a
quick reference as you "work the floor."
Below are important
save the dates,
parties,
panels,
book signings
and events!
ANGIE AT SESI BOOTH: Angie will be at the SIDE EFFECTS SOFTWARE, INC. booth #127 most of the week demo-ing the new character tools in Houdini 9
...so, please stop by a demo station and say "hello!"
BOOK SIGNINGS: Both Angie and Jamie will be signing books at the Thomson Course Technology Booth #647 - Time and date TBD - please check back and this blog posting will be updated.
SIGGRAPH BOOKSTORE: Breakpoint Books will have the Thinking Animation book at the official Siggraph Bookstore too!
LIVE FROM SIGGRAPH: If you cannot make the show this year Amazon.com has asked us to do our Siggraph Blog again this year! Last year's Siggraph blogging was so popular we will be at it again this year to write notes from Siggraph/San Diego for Amazon.com's "live from Siggraph" campaign, so if you can't make it to the show? We will be your eyes and ears on the convention floor. :)
Online Siggraph 2007 Registration
General Conference Information
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
Advance Late Registration Deadline
Do you have your pass?
Jamie and Angie have provided you
with our ever popular
HOW TO SIGGRAPH!
(updated for this year's 2007 Siggraph event in San Diego)
This document provides all of the information you need regarding
looking for a job,
networking
or just plain what to expect to experience
at the Siggraph convention.
We encourage newbies and old-school-attendees alike,
to check out this informative document
and print it out as a
quick reference as you "work the floor."
Below are important
save the dates,
parties,
panels,
book signings
and events!
ANGIE AT SESI BOOTH: Angie will be at the SIDE EFFECTS SOFTWARE, INC. booth #127 most of the week demo-ing the new character tools in Houdini 9...so, please stop by a demo station and say "hello!"
BOOK SIGNINGS: Both Angie and Jamie will be signing books at the Thomson Course Technology Booth #647 - Time and date TBD - please check back and this blog posting will be updated.
SIGGRAPH BOOKSTORE: Breakpoint Books will have the Thinking Animation book at the official Siggraph Bookstore too!
LIVE FROM SIGGRAPH: If you cannot make the show this year Amazon.com has asked us to do our Siggraph Blog again this year! Last year's Siggraph blogging was so popular we will be at it again this year to write notes from Siggraph/San Diego for Amazon.com's "live from Siggraph" campaign, so if you can't make it to the show? We will be your eyes and ears on the convention floor. :)
Online Siggraph 2007 RegistrationGeneral Conference Information
Wednesday, 25 July 2007
Advance Late Registration Deadline
Important Save the Dates/Events/Parties
Monday August 6th, 2007 1-2pmExpert Panel
Angie will be serving on an Expert Panel with Jason Iversen, Judith Crow, Micheal Kaschalk, and Craig Zerouni to discuss emerging production demands in CG.
Side Effects is excited to announce its first ever Houdini Expert Panel, hosted and broadcast by Jason Busby from 3DBuzz. This event will be covering the topic of Emerging Demands of Production, and have several prominent Houdini users as panelists ranging in areas of expertise.
Bios:
Moderator, Judith Crow
Judith Crow grew up in England and attended Dartington College of Arts to study Art and Design in Social Contexts and Middlesex Polytechnic where she gained her Bachelors degree. In 1987, after working in the community arts field in London for 4 years as a photographer, teacher and curator, Judith enrolled in a Masters program to study Computing in Design.
In 1994 Judith started working in film digital effects at Digital Domain where she worked in a variety of roles on a wide range of projects including “Apollo 13” (Supervising Digital Artist), “T2-3D: Battle Across Time” (3D Digital Effects Supervisor), “Titanic” (Digital Effects Supervisor) and “Fight Club” (Co-Opening Sequence Team Lead).
After some time at DreamQuest Images and The Secret Lab she returned to Digital Domain as Creative Director – Digital Production and Technologies where she remained working on facility-wide production processes until 2002.
Judith is now a Snr. Production Consultant at Side Effects Software Inc. where she helps formulate end-to-end pipeline designs and key production processes for our customers with an eye to reducing the inefficiencies endemic in large-scale film production.
Panelist, Craig Zerouni:
Craig has been a CG artist for 25 years, and using Houdini since its inception.
During his 15 year tenure at CFX, one of Britain's first computer animation companies, Craig worked on over 500 commercials, title sequences and feature films. In that time, he had experiences that ranged from effects programming to animating to technical directing to directing full commercials. Since then, he has worked for Side Effects as the manager of the Prisms software product (1997) and then for Silicon Grail, sellers of Chalice, a compositing package (and Chalice was originally based on a snapshot of Side Effects' first compositing product, Ice). After spending time doing freelance production work (using Houdini), he returned to Side Effects, to serve as a Production Consultant and a resident Houdini expert.
Currently he is at Digital Domain as Technology Production Manager.
Panelist, Michael Kaschalk:
Currently a Visual Effect Supervisor on a special projects team doing concept test for Walt Disney Imagineering, Michael has been working in the CG industry since 1993.
He has been employed at Walt Disney for 10 years, having contributed in FX for the features “Fantasia 2000”, “Tarzan”, “Chicken Little” and has had supervising roles in “Atlantis”, “Home on the Range” and most recently, “Meet the Robinsons”.
Michael will be joining the “Bolt” production as an Effects animator this fall at Walt Disney Animation Studios (formerly Walt Disney Feature Animation”.
Panelist, Angie Jones:
Angie Jones began her animation career at a San Diego studio with more than 150 traditional animators a little over 12 years ago called Lightspan. Although she was trained at Atlanta College of Art in Fine Arts, she readily embraced animating with the computer.
She has worked on numerous CG animation productions, including Stuart Little 2 (winner of the VES Award - Visual Effects Society in 2003 for Best Character Animation in an Animated Motion Picture), Disney’s 50th Anniversary commercials, the three-time Oscar Winning "Pan's Labyrinth" with Director Guillermo Del Toro, Oddworld: Abe’s Exodus, Garfield, Dino Crises 3, Zoom, Scooby Doo Too, XMen 2, National Treasure and she won a Bronze Clio for her character animation on the Amp Energy Drink Spot released 2007.
Angie has also written 3 books on animation, the most recent being Thinking Animation: Bridging the Gap Between 2D and CG. To find out more about Angie go to http://www.spicycricket.com
Currently, Angie is at Side Effects Software as the resident Character Specialist.
Panelist, Jason Iverson:
Jason Iverson began his CG career at Digital Directions which later became the Refinery in South Africa in the mid 90s. Discovering PRISMS early on, he took to Houdini quite favorably and continues to work with it at Digital Domain today, where he started back in 2000 as an FX Technical Director.
Jason has since worked on several high profile features as CG Supervisor, recently having completely worked on Transformers, where he was responsible for building and all Houdini/Mantra lighting and rendering pipeline utilizing Mantra 9 in an Alpha state.
Jason is also noted for being co-creator and host of the most popular online Houdini Community, OdForce (www.odforce.net).
Held in the San Diego Marina Hotel (right next door to the convention center) - Mission Hills meeting Room form 1-2pm.
Hosted by 3DBuzz.com
SIGGRAPH PARTIES!!!!
Monday, August 6th, 2007Autodesk/Cafe FX Party on Aircraft Carrier!
9 pm – 1 am
Fireworks at 9:50 pm
Open Bar from 9-11:30 pm
Cash Bar from 11:30-1:00 am
US Navy Jets & Flight Simulators
USS Midway,
San Diego Navy Pier,
910 North Harbor Drive
Attendance is limited to invited guests
Presentations from industry visionaries including:
- CafeFX, Condor, Industrial Light & Magic, Uniform and more· DaimlerChrysler demonstrates innovative automotivedesign visualization using Autodesk software
- Autodesk® Masters Awards for outstanding Maya and 3ds Max users
- The launch of The AREA V2 3D community portal
- The chance to win a Dell PrecisionT M90Mobile Workstation or one of two NVidia Quadro FX 3500 boards
- This free event is open to all Autodesk customers attending SIGGRAPH 2007.
- We encourage you to register early - seating is limited.
Monday, August 6, 2007
San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina
333 West Harbor Drive
Marriott Hall 1-6
Registration
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
User Group
6:30 pm - 8:45 pm
After Party
9:00 pm - 1:00 am
Register Now!
Learn more about Autodesk at SIGGRAPH 2007
BY INVITATION ONLY
Tickets to come aboard available only at the Autodesk User Group.
Transportation will be available.
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007SIDEFX get .hip party!
7-2am at the Aubergine night club
which is a short walk from the convention center and hotels.
500 Fourth Ave.
San Diego, California 92101
Register for party here.
This combined event will start at 7:00 PM at the Aubergine night club which is a short walk from the convention center and hotels.
Side Effects Software turns 20 years this year, and this evening is going to be spectacular! The Houdini meeting will include an introduction to Houdini 9 and a 20 year retrospective. And to get things started there will be a Houdini job fair and light refreshments.
Then at the get.hip party the prodigal son will return as Side Effects Software co-founder Greg Hermanovic and his company Derivative dazzle us with live Touch visuals and psychedelic eye candy.
The evening’s agenda will be as follows:
- 7 PM Job Fair, Registration and Light Reception
- 8 PM The Houdini Meeting
- 9 PM get.hip party with Live Touch visuals by Derivative
Wednesday, August 8th, 20079-2 am
Softimage Visual fxtasy party!
At San Diego House of Blues
1055 Fifth Avenue,
San Diego, CA 92101
Register here.
Hosted by Vicon House of Moves, Pendulum Studios & Softimage .
Featuring music from the UK's Hybrid Soundsystem (http://www.hybridsoundsystem.com/) and San Diego's DJ Diamond (http://www.dj-diamond.com/).
Don't forget you can pick up your party tickets in advance at the following locations during SIGGRAPH:
- Tuesday, August 7th from 11am-3pm - Vicon House of Moves Booth # 902
- Wednesday, August 8th from 12pm-5pm - Softimage Booth #503
Sponsored by: Mova, 2d3, BOXX, Computer Graphics World, Digital-Tutors, Gnomon, Intel, Lenovo, Syflex
Hope to see you there!
Angie and Jamie
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