SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques) is the annual conference on computer graphics (CG) convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. For the first time ever, this conference was held in 1974 in Boulder, USA. But right now SIGGRAPH is widely considered to be the most famous and prestigious festival that unites thousands of powerful and skillful computer graphics artists from all over the world and where they may present their recently created CG films and share their experience.
This year’s Annual Conference was held in Los Angeles Convention Center, California, USA from 11-15 August, 2008. About 30,000 computer graphics and interactive technology professionals from six continents took part in it. The jury was presented by nearly 30 masters from every corner of the globe who were entrusted with a great task – to choose the deserved winners in the following nominees: Best of Show, Jury Award, Student Prize, Audience Prize, and a special Well Told Fable Prize for SIGGRAPH 2008.
“Mother Nature” created by Meats Meier
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The winners are:
The Best of Show Winner is “Oktapodi” (Gobelins) – the animated short about the adventures of two octopi directed by the third-year students from France: Emud Mokhberi, Julien Bocabeille, Quentin Marmier, Thierry Marchand, Olivier Delabarre and François-Xavier Chanioux and John Knoll (Visual Effects Supervisor).
By the way, the competition screening audience that was able to vote for their favorites, so greatly enjoyed this animated short, so it also won Audience Prize.
Jury Award Winner is Mauvais Role (Ecole Superieure de Realisation Audiovisuelle, France). This gripping and hilarious animated short was created by a talented team of CG artists: Alan Barbier, Camille Campion, Dorian Fevrier, Frederic Fourier, Frederic Lafay, Min Ma, Jean-François Macem, Emanuel Reperant, Jeremie Rousseau, Olivier Sicot, and École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle. This is a story about funny monster who tried to find a job casting in different games. And eventually he found the perfect job he cut out for.
Best Well Told Fable Prize was given to “Our Wonderful Nature” (Hochschule fur Film und Fernsehen).
This is a bright and picturesque documentary about the animate nature. You will definitely get pleasure from seeing it.
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Undoubtedly, all participants proved their brilliant talent and skills. They all deserve our attention. And for more information you may read CG Society SIGGRAPH 2008 Diary.
Cheers!
August 25th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Woah! Great post guys!
August 25th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Wow! Amazing animated shorts! I rock with laughter
August 25th, 2008 at 11:19 am
I was touched to tears by octopus love story! And the one about moles really creased me. Thanks for the post!
November 20th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Incredible stuff! I am impressed with the detail of this art work.
Thanks for sharing!