A Blend of Art and Science The SIGGRAPH 2005 Computer Animation Festival

摘要

When a crowd of 25,000 converges in Los Angeles for SIGGRAPH 2005, the hot ticket they'll be seeking is for the two-hour "Best of Show" Electronic Theater. This portion of SIGGRAPH's Computer Animation Festival features 26 pieces chosen for both technical excellence and creative innovation. Considering that these 26 winners were culled from 560 submissions, landing a place in "ET" is as good as it gets. An additional 42 pieces comprise the Animation Theater, a series of screenings that run continuously throughout SIGGRAPH. But this year's Computer Animation Festival Chair, Samuel Lord Black, cautions against regarding those pieces as second tier. "The mix of the show was actually an important key for us. We changed the way the jury has worked in the last couple of years. Instead of just ranking pieces by the number of votes received, we wanted to craft a good show out of what we picked. So we have some really good pieces in the Animation Theater that didn't quite fit the ET."