MetroCAF 2014

Posting this here so you cannot blame me if you missed the opportunity to see the best student computer animations created in our area in the last year: MetroCAF 2014 will be screened next Friday!
 

Final Animations

A compilation of final animations for ARIL 421 for your viewing pleasure. I had to replace some music as it got flagged as copyrighted immediately after upload. Piano is probably the easiest to match…
 

Flocking Reynolds

In class today I talked about flocking. Someone implemented Craig Reynolds flocking in WebGL. Watch it here - be a little patient, may take some time to load.

Via Alain Chesnais / Facebook

Summer Internships, albeit in L.A.

Through the ASIFA Hollywood Educators forum I was alerted to these summer internships. If you feel like spending the summer working in L.A., you may want to check this out:

 

SUMMER 2014 Intern Cartoon Network Studios Productions

"Duties: Curious to know how a cartoon makes its way from a creative mind to the small screen? Want to spend semester learning about the business and creative side of animation? Cartoon Network Studios is where the real fun the scribbling and scheming happens. We create original animated entertainment for Cartoon Network, the greatest all-cartoon network in the world! Our Internship Program exposes students to a variety of duties and provides valuable knowledge of the industry."

Industry Spotlight

For tomorrow our local ACM SIGGRAPH chapter has organized the annual Industry Spotlight. Come and see there great local companies:

Call: Physics and Art Exhibition

From: Ashwin Vaidya:

"The 5th Physics and Art photo event will be held on May 2nd in University Hall in conjunction with the RAUL's Showcase for teaching and learning. I am soliciting photographs that highlight art and science and the interconnnectedness of the two (more details are provided in the attached flyer). Selected entries will be showcased at the exhibition and also online and awards will be given out to the top entries."

The nexus between Science and Art has always interested me, maybe some of you have interesting images you can submit!

Electronic Theater

We have a busy month at out local ACM SIGGRAPH chapter! Here's another event worth checking out, a great opportunity to see high quality animation:

On Friday, March 14, 2014, NYC ACM SIGGRAPH and the NYIT Fine Arts Department are proud to present a very special screening of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Electronic Theater. This event will start at 7:00PM and take place in NYIT's Auditorium On Broadway at 1871 Broadway (between 61st and 62nd Streets.) Admission to this event is $10 for Non-Members and $5 for Non-Member Students. (NYIT faculty, staff and students can attend for free.)

The SIGGRAPH Asia Electronic Theater is one of the world's most prestigious film and video extravaganzas, showcasing dazzling and innovative imagery in invited and submitted works selected by a distinguished jury of computer graphics experts and specialists. We are particularly fortunate to be screening a special version of the Electronic Theater from the conference that was held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2013. This is an extraordinary opportunity for anyone that was not able to attend SIGGRAPH Asia 2013. Admittance to a single CAF Screening at the conference costs quite a bit so the admission for this event is a tremendous bargain.

You can visit the chapter site for all the event information

NYC ACM SIGGRAPH of Facebook

For all of you who are wondering why the local chapter of the computer graphics organization ACM SIGGRAPH is nowhere to be found on Facebook, the search is over. We now have an official Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/NYCACMSIGGRAPH/462635140503346

It seems we (I speak as the organization's treasurer here) need 30 "likes" to keep this address, so please "like" that page!

BYOA March 3rd

It is unlikely that I will be able to make it, but this is always a fun gathering and an opportunity to get feedback. From the NYC ACM SIGGRAPH chapter:

"On Monday, March 3, 2014, we're happy to announce that Bring Your Own Animation (BYOA) will return for the spring in a new home. Our previous location closed down in January so we'll be assembling at Scallywags at 508 Ninth Avenue (between 38th and 39th Streets) in Manhattan. We'll be in the room all the way in the back of the restaurant. We'll meet at 7:00PM and start screening around 7:30PM. We expect to be here until 10:00PM. Beverages and food will be available for purchase.

This is your chance to share what you've been working on with the rest of the NYC-area digital media community - and to check out what others have been doing. Come and meet other animators, exchange tips and ideas, maybe even find a future collaborator. We'll be hooking up a Mac laptop to the flat-screen so bring your work on a DVD or USB and we'll play it. (We will not swap out the computer to play from another computer so make sure you can transfer it to our machine.)

More details can be found on our web site"

All Eyes

For those who wonder why it is so quite on this front: it seems the private blog I started for the ARIL 421 students is much preferred over this public one.

This semester there are three ARIL 421 students committed to a group project. The storyboard contains a dream sequence with eyes. Good reason to post the dream sequence from Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound here. Designed by Salvador Dali.
 

More information can be found on The Art of Film

This inspired me to create sequence for a video I made while a student at Ohio State, of which I posted this tiny QuickTime on my website (back then streaming video was not taken seriously as it was equivalent to watching moving postage stamps):
 

Really should get around to posting this stuff on Vimeo or YouTube.

The results are in!