Friday, November 2, 2007

Doors open at 6pm

Show starts at 6:30pm

Join us for a great 2007-2008 season start with the Electronic Theater,

a film and video extravaganza featuring incredible technical imagery.

Oregon State University

Kelley Engineering Building, Room 1001

2500 NW Monroe Avenue

Corvallis, OR 97330

If you can help, please contact the volunteer coordinator Michael Smith [volunteer (at) cascadesiggraph(dot) org] by

Cost: Free to Cascade SIGGRAPH Chapter members; $5.00 public;

Light appetizers will be available to attendees.

The Cascade ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter is grateful to OSU for the use of their facilities. Special thanks to Mike Bailey!

Featured Productions

The collection of 37 shorts were selected from over 600 submissions and juried at the recent International SIGGRAPH conference. The show takes us on a remarkable journey that combines trends in art and science with the best computer graphics depicting comedy, drama, romance, action, adventure, fantasy, science fiction and science fact. The following productions are included:

• 300’s Liquid Battlefield – SCANLINE VFX (Germany)
• Ark – Marcin Kobylecki, Grzegorz Jonkajtys, Producers (Poland)
• Burning Safari – Gobelins, l’école de l’image (France)
• Capturing and Animating Skin Deformation – Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
• Children of Men – Framestore CFC (United Kingdowm)
• Dreammaker (Trailer) – Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
• En Tus Brazos – Supinfocom Valenciennes (France)
• equilibrio – New York University (USA)
• Formation of a Spiral Galaxy – National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (Japan)
• Game Technology 2007 – Playable Universal Capture 2007 Reel, Electronic Arts
• A Gentlemen’s Duel – Blur Studio (USA)
• Happiness Factory – PSYOP, Inc. (USA)
• High Fashion in Equations – MIRALab, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
• HP Hands “Paulo Coelho” – Motion Theory (USA)
• Industrial Light & Magic 2007 – Industrial Light & Magic (USA)
• The Itch – Bournemouth University (United Kingdom)
• Lifted – Pixar Animation Studios (USA)
• No Time For Nuts – Blue Sky Studios (USA)
• NVIDIA Real-Time Graphics Research: The GeForce 8 Demo Suite – NVIDIA Corporation (USA)
• Opening and Title Animations – florianwitzel.com (USA)
• Portal – Valve Corporation (USA)
• Raymond – The Mill (United Kingdom)
• The Recent Future Robot: HELPER Z – Katsuyuki Suzuki (Japan)
• Sears Tools “Arboretum” – Method Studios (USA)
• SIGGRAPH 2007 Papers Preview – Microsoft Research (USA)
• Spider-Man 3: VFX Highlights – Sony Pictures Imageworks (USA)
• STORM – Digital Domain, Inc. (USA)
• Surf’s Up: A Practical Guide to Making Waves – Sony Pictures Imageworks (USA)
• swirl – Lee Griggs (United Kingdom)
• Travelers: Snowball – Weta Digital Ltd. (New Zealand)
• U2 and Green Day “The Saints Are Coming” – Sway Studio (USA)
• A VFX Journey Through Pan’s Labyrinth With CafeFX – CafeFX, Inc. (USA)
• Vigorsol: The Legend – The Moving Picture Company (United Kingdom)
• World Trade Center – Double Negative (United Kingdom).