(Production Supervisor (VFX, DFX, CG, etc.), Character Animators, Pipeline Engineers, Rendering Engineer, Software/Application Engineers, Technical Directors, Technical Managers)
Explore the science, engineering, and creative inspiration behind the world's most amazing digital imagery and experience outstanding achievements in time-based art, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, and narrative shorts.
Animation & VFX
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Courses
Digital Ira and Beyond: Creating Photoreal Real-Time Digital Characters
Sunday, 10 August 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom A
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Talks
Capture and Display
Sunday, 10 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 211-214
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Courses
New Generation of Microscopic Crowd-Simulation Algorithms
Sunday, 10 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Exhibit Hall A
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Talks
On the Rocks
Sunday, 10 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom B-C
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Talks
Everything is Awesome
Sunday, 10 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Exhibit Hall A
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Building Blocks for "The LEGO Movie"
Monday, 11 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom A-B
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Talks
Capture in Depth
Monday, 11 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 109-110
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Technical Papers
Shape Collection
Monday, 11 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom B-C
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Talks
Simulation
Monday, 11 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 118-120
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Technical Papers
Sound & Light
Monday, 11 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom A
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Birds of a Feather
Humanoid Animation (H-Anim)
Monday, 11 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Pan Pacific Vancouver, Oceanview 6
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Talks
Show and Tell
Monday, 11 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 118-120
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
The Making of Marvel's “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
Monday, 11 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom A-B
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Birds of a Feather
JogAmp: Graphics, Media & Processing Across Devices
Monday, 11 August 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 3
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Birds of a Feather
Korea Chapter Annual Meeting
Monday, 11 August 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Pan Pacific Vancouver, Oceanview 6
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Technical Papers
Faces
Monday, 11 August 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom B-C
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Talks
Rigging the Outcome
Monday, 11 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 118-120
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
The Making of Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy"
Monday, 11 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom A-B
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Birds of a Feather
Global VFX Pipelines
Monday, 11 August 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver Island Room
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Birds of a Feather
The 27th Anniversary Kawaguchi's SAKE Party at SIGGRAPH 2014
Monday, 11 August 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel, Harbourside Ballroom 1
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Computer Animation Festival - Electronic Theater
Computer Animation Festival - Electronic Theater
Monday, 11 August 6:30 PM - 8:45 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom A-B
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
An Insight Into the Making of "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For"
Tuesday, 12 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom A-B
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Technical Papers
Controlling Character
Tuesday, 12 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom B-C
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Creating Content to Drive Destiny’s Investment Game: One Solution to Rule Them All
Tuesday, 12 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom C/D
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Talks
Creature Feature
Tuesday, 12 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 211-214
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Technical Papers
Non-Photorealistic Rendering
Tuesday, 12 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Exhibit Hall A
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Birds of a Feather
CAD and 3D Printing
Tuesday, 12 August 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Pan Pacific Vancouver, Oceanview 5
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Birds of a Feather
The Evolution of Creative Production Technologies – What’s the Way Forward?
Tuesday, 12 August 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 3
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Talks
About Face
Tuesday, 12 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 211-214
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Courses
Character Heads Creation Pipeline and Rendering in Destiny
Tuesday, 12 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom C/D
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Tuesday, 12 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom A-B
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Technical Papers
Fabrication-Oriented Design
Tuesday, 12 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom B-C
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Talks
Sampling
Tuesday, 12 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 109-110
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Birds of a Feather
Open Shading Language
Tuesday, 12 August 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 3
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
DreamWorks Animation Presents: The Growth of “How To Train Your Dragon 2”
Tuesday, 12 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom A-B
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Technical Papers
Games & Design
Tuesday, 12 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom B-C
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Inside the Magical World of Disney’s “Maleficent”
Tuesday, 12 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom C/D
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Birds of a Feather
Practical Q&A on Alembic!
Tuesday, 12 August 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 8
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Talks
Think Big
Tuesday, 12 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 118-120
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Birds of a Feather
VFX Student Showcase – The Anatomy of a Digital Matte Painting Production
Tuesday, 12 August 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 9
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Birds of a Feather
Volume Rendering and Medical Visualization
Tuesday, 12 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Pan Pacific Vancouver, Oceanview 5
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Birds of a Feather
Future of 3D Web Standards
Tuesday, 12 August 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Pan Pacific Vancouver, Oceanview 5
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Technical Papers
Animating Characters
Tuesday, 12 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom A
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Creating the Amazon in “Rio 2”
Tuesday, 12 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom C/D
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Birds of a Feather
Gaffer: An Open Source Application Framework for VFX
Tuesday, 12 August 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 8
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures Present the VFX of “Godzilla”
Tuesday, 12 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom A-B
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Birds of a Feather
Christians in CG
Tuesday, 12 August 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 4
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Birds of a Feather
Online Collaboration - Future of Studio Production?
Tuesday, 12 August 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 3
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Birds of a Feather
OpenSubdiv BOF
Tuesday, 12 August 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Fairmont Waterfront, ARC Bar
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Birds of a Feather
Dynamic Simulation in Production
Tuesday, 12 August 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel, Port of San Francisco and Port of New York
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Real-Time Live!
Real-Time Live!
Tuesday, 12 August 5:30 PM - 7:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom C/D
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Computer Animation Festival - Electronic Theater
Computer Animation Festival - Electronic Theater
Tuesday, 12 August 6:30 PM - 8:45 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom A-B
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Talks
Hair Today
Wednesday, 13 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 109-110
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Industrial Light & Magic Presents: Capturing the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”
Wednesday, 13 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom A-B
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Birds of a Feather
Cultural Heritage and Mixed Augmented Reality (MAR)
Wednesday, 13 August 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 9
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Birds of a Feather
Building the Next Generation Render Farm Pipeline
Wednesday, 13 August 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 3
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Birds of a Feather
VFX Reference Platform: A Common Target for Building VFX Software
Wednesday, 13 August 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 8
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Technical Papers
Light Transport
Wednesday, 13 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Exhibit Hall A
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Meet Your New Production R&D Department - ACM/SIGGRAPH
Wednesday, 13 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom C/D
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Technical Papers
Subspace & Spacetime
Wednesday, 13 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom B-C
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Unmask the Secrets Behind “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”
Wednesday, 13 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom A-B
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Birds of a Feather
Motion Capture Society
Wednesday, 13 August 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 3
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Birds of a Feather
Geo Web
Wednesday, 13 August 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 4
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Birds of a Feather
Motion Graphics
Wednesday, 13 August 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 3
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Industrial Light & Magic Presents: Deconstructing the Visual Effects of “Transformers: Age of Extinction”
Wednesday, 13 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom A-B
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Technical Papers
Mesh-Based Simulation
Wednesday, 13 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom A
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Courses
Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice
Wednesday, 13 August 2:00 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 211-214
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Technical Papers
Reflectance: Modeling, Capturing, Renderings
Wednesday, 13 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Exhibit Hall A
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Technical Papers
Shape Analysis
Wednesday, 13 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom B-C
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
The Production and Visual Effects of “Killzone Shadow Fall”
Wednesday, 13 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom C/D
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Birds of a Feather
Managing Creative Projects
Wednesday, 13 August 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 8
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Birds of a Feather
OpenVDB
Wednesday, 13 August 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 9
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Birds of a Feather
ADAPT Q&A On Legal Effort To End VFX Subsidies
Wednesday, 13 August 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 2
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Talks
Dynamics
Wednesday, 13 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 109-110
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Technical Papers
Hair & Collisions
Wednesday, 13 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom A
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Technical Papers
Image Tricks
Wednesday, 13 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Exhibit Hall A
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Technical Papers
Interactive Modeling
Wednesday, 13 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom B-C
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Making "Gravity" at Framestore
Wednesday, 13 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom A-B
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Talks
Pipeline in Production
Wednesday, 13 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 118-120
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Puppets, Printing And Compositing: A Unique Collaboration In LAIKA’s Animated Features
Wednesday, 13 August 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom C/D
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Birds of a Feather
Freelance Survivors
Wednesday, 13 August 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Pan Pacific Vancouver, Oceanview 3
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Birds of a Feather
Open-Source Compositing Solutions
Wednesday, 13 August 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Fairmont Waterfront, Malaspina Room
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Birds of a Feather
WebGL for 3D Graphics on the Web
Wednesday, 13 August 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown, Pinnacle Ballroom
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Birds of a Feather
OpenGL, OpenGL ES and the 3D API Landscape
Wednesday, 13 August 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown, Pinnacle Ballroom
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Birds of a Feather
TuttleOFX Community Meeting
Wednesday, 13 August 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 3
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Dailies
Dailies
Wednesday, 13 August 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom B-C
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Talks
Don't Let Go (Gravity)
Thursday, 14 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 211-214
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Technical Papers
Fluids
Thursday, 14 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Exhibit Hall A
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Technical Papers
Hardware Systems
Thursday, 14 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom B-C
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Making “The Dam Keeper”: How Two First-Time Directors Brought Paint to Life in Their Animated Short Film
Thursday, 14 August 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom C/D
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Technical Papers
Changing Your Perception
Thursday, 14 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom A
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Talks
Crowded, Furry and in a Hurry
Thursday, 14 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 211-214
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Technical Papers
Fast Rendering
Thursday, 14 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Exhibit Hall A
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions
Feast – A Look at Walt Disney Animation Studios' Newest Short
Thursday, 14 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom C/D
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Technical Papers
Stretching & Flowing
Thursday, 14 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Ballroom B-C
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Birds of a Feather
Still Handling Very Large Data Sets - to Mars and Beyond
Thursday, 14 August 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 3
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Courses
Raytracers and Workflow: A Production Perspective
Thursday, 14 August 2:00 PM - 5:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 109-110
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Technical Papers
Surfaces, Shapes, and Maps
Thursday, 14 August 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Exhibit Hall A
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Computer Animation Festival - Production Sessions