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!
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"
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.
