Animated Travels

Day 1 and the contestants are already tired.

written by Joanne Weikel

SIGGRAPH 2009 Fjorg! competition started at 9am Monday, August 3 in New Orleans. In it’s third year, the event attracted many talented animators both students and professionals.

The competition, created by Patricia Beckmann as an Iron Animator event challenges the competitors to create a short film (15-45 seconds) from concept to finish in the short time span of thirty-two hours. To make the task more demanding, distractions are scheduled throughout the day to entice them away from the film making process.

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Half-Blood Prince's fire sim isn't the the only talk of the town at SIGGRAPH.

written by Bill Desowitz

The exhibition opened today and, as expected, the show is small but quaint — similar to San Antonio a few years back. Nothing wrong with that: it’s manageable and in keeping with the New Orleans flavor. While the number of exhibitors is smaller than usual, it’s a nice mix. You can traverse the floor in about half-an-hour. And there are plenty of students flocking the job fair, which is where most of the action is — and rightly so, considering the job market. In fact, a few of the large studios such as Lucasfilm and Sony Pictures Imageworks, opted to have a presence solely at the job fair.
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