My Siggraph Schedule

Here is my schedule:

• Sunday: Avatar in Depth,
• Monday: All about Avatar, Detailed Surfaces, Volume and Precipitation, Real-time Live Demo,
• Tuesday: Simulation in Production, Computer Animation Festival, Blowing $h!t up, Real-time Live Demo,
• Wednesday: Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games I and II,
• Thursday: Beyond Programmable Shading I and II.

There is a lot of uncertainty for some sessions because many are overlapping with others I am interested in (hair rendering, stylized rendering, global illumination, physically based shading, etc). It is really hard to make my final choice.

Moreover, two friends are presenting this year:

• Nicolas Stoiber, PhD student at Orange Labs like me: The Mimic Game: Real-Time Recognition and Imitation of Emotional Facial Expressions. (He will write an article here about his very interesting work after SIGGRAPH),
  

• Guillaume François, shader writer at Weta Digital : Importance Sampling for Production Rendering.

I wish them good luck with their presentation. I hope one day I could contribute to SIGGRAPH to. Indeed, my PhD was not really suited for such graphic/animation research... Maybe during my future job!!

I will post here about SIGGRAPH during the next week if I can find time between sessions and SIGGRAPH night parties. :)