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SIGGRAPH 2003 Quick Visual Report
Day 4, Wednesday July 30
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Jonah Hall, of Digital Domain, presented how the Romulans were disintegrated in Star Trek: Nemesis during the Effects Omelette sketch session. |
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Marla Newall, of ILM, presented how matchmoving and CG were used for the half destroyed Terminator in Terminator 3 during the Effects Omelette sketch session. |
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Matt Aitken, of Weta Digital, presented how the Ents were created at the Effects Omelette sketch session. |
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Willi Geiger, from ILM, presented how the CG explosions and nuclear blasts in Terminator 3 were done during the Effects Omelette sketch session. |
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Habib Zargarpour mets old friends after the Effects Omelette sketch. |
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Nigel Sumner explained how the Terminatrix was melted at the Effects Omelette sketch session. |
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The Sails Pavilion. |
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A Lego Star Destroyer in the Sails Pavilion. |
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A Lego Rebel Blockade Runner in the Sails Pavilion. |
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Clash of the Titans: a volleyball match between members of PDI and Pixar in the Sails Pavilion. |
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The Vicon booth. |
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The Ascension Technology booth. |
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The Racksaver booth at the Exhibition Floor. |
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The Exhibition Floor a bit more calm at lunch time. |
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The Imageworks drawing class is always filled up. |
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Participants of the Imageworks drawing class hard at work. |
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An origami display, including Yoda and Seabiscuit, at the Imageworks booth. |
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The model at the Imageworks drawing class. |
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The Pixar booth. |
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Behind the Pixar booth where the new features of the RAT tools were demoed. |
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George Borshukov, of ESC, after The Matrix Revealed sketch. |
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Haarm-Pieter Duiker, of ESC, presented Lighting Reconstruction at The Matrix Revealed sketch. |
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Tadao Mihashi, of ESC, presented how realistic hair was created at The Matrix Revealed sketch. |
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Haarm-Pieter Duiker, of ESC. |
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George Borshukov telling attendants how big of a project The Matrix Reloaded was (insert your favorite how big joke here ;-). |
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Dana Batali gets the ball rolling at the Pixar Users Group meeting. |
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A slide summarizing the RenderMan history for the last 17 years. |
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Hal Bertram, of the Moving Picture Company, presents the Stupid RAT Trick about micropolygon baking. |
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A slide from Hal Bertram's presentation. |
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Ian Stephenson, of Bournemouth University, presents the Stupid RAT Trick about rendering smoke with polygon maps. |
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A slide of Ian Stephenson's presentation. |
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Mach Kobayashi, now at Pixar, presents the Stupid RAT Trick about baking geometry into texture maps, used in The Final Flight of the Osiris. |
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Kevin Smith, who worked at Weta Digital, presents the devilishly clever Stupid RAT Trick about faking refraction for Golum's eyes. |
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The Pixar Users Group meeting draws to a close. |
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Crush at the Pixar Users Group meeting. |
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Nemo at the Pixar Users Group meeting. |
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The SIGGRAPH Reception at the Sails Pavilion. |
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A girl tries the relaxation art contraption at the Reception. |
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A sort of mini CAVE setup at the Sails Pavilion. |
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Someone doing a city flyover on the mini CAVE setup. |
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Attendants playing with legos at the Reception. |
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The Convention Center at night. |