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Industry Screening: Inception
Presented by the Visual Effects Society

More info: http://siggraph.ca/enews/20100820/

Attention Chapter Members:
Our friends at the Visual Effects Society are organizing a FREE industry screening of "INCEPTION." For this occasion, they are kindly inviting all chapter members to a matinee this Sunday at 1:30 PM. Please note that this is a members-only event.

Not a member? Not a problem. You can enroll online at www.siggraph.ca/members...

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The Story Behind the Invisible Visual Effects Required in
Creating Washington DC for Salt

CGSociety :: Production Focus
17 August 2010, by Mark Breakspear, VFX Supervisor CIS Vancouver

** read the full story here - it is full of images, breakdowns and movies

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SPARK ANIMATION 10
Celebrating Innovation and Inspiration in Animation
September 8 - September 12, 2010

Mark your calendars! Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH is pleased to announce its third annual celebration of animation, SPARK Animation '10.

Opening September 8, SPARK Animation '10 Conference & Festival will be full of inspiring speakers, panels and films. We've been hard at work for the last year putting together an exciting schedule to celebrate the incredible ac...

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VFX Diary: The “Space” Aliens
Part 2 in Mark Savela's VFX Diary

The “Space” aliens began, as a lot of the VFX elements do on our show, as concept art that was done by our multi-talented Production Designer, James Robbins. Since the concept art is basically a 2D rendering/drawing on paper we decided to do full maquettes both of the head and full body.


A maquette o...

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Twilight Experiences an Eclipse
Tippett and Image Engine talk fur and crystals for the third Twilight entry.

By Bill Desowitz | Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 4:59 pm at AWN.com

Check out the Twilight Saga: Eclipse trailer and clips at AWNtv!


Tippett utilized a new node-based fur to...