Videos from SIGGRAPH '08

By Amy Barton (Intel) (24 posts) on August 18, 2008 at 10:31 am

Just back from SIGGRAPH - Jerry & I filmed the demos in the Intel booth, as well as a few interviews with Intel® Software Partners. The booth showed end-to-end production of an animation from creation to film editing, as well as developer tools and COLLADA applications.

Many, many cool videos to share - which we couldn't upload on the spot due to slow wireless, so they all went live over the weekend.  What an amazing show - we captured a bit of it for you, without the flight to Los Angeles nor the LAX delays on the return that I suffered.

Some highlights:

1)  Organic Motion: We visited the Organic Motion booth, and spoke w/Jonathan Rand, President of the company, who showed us their new motion capture system  that uses 15 cameras to capture the motion of anyone who walks into the booth (including me -- see my cameo at the end), and immediately digitizes it into an animated character. 

Video: Organic Motion's new "No Marker" Motion Capture System

2) Adobe: Film Editing & Tapeless Workflow: How could we not film the guy with purple hair in our booth? Kevan O'Brien, Adobe Systems Field Engineer, shows how Adobe AfterEffect and Premiere support a RED tapeless workflow. We also filmed Adobe's 25-minute session in our booth on 3D Integration Using Adobe After Effects, CS3, and Cinema 4D. 

Video: Adobe AfterEffect and Premiere support a RED tapeless workflow
Video Series: 3D Integration Using After Effects, CS3, and Cinema 4D (3 parts)

3) Ambient Design Director of Business Development, Uwe Maurer, gives a on Art Rage 2.5 paint package and end-to-end production flow. This was one of the most popular demos in our booth. Fun watching her paint and create a new animation!

Video: Ambient Designs Presentation of Art Rage 2.5 at SIGGRAPH Part I
Video: Ambient Designs Presentation of Art Rage 2.5 at SIGGRAPH Part II

4) Autodesk showcased their 3DSMax high quality rendering application in addition to MudBox which allows for real-time sculpting w/out rendering.

Video: Autodesk in Intel SIGGRAPH Booth

5)  COLLADA tools:Kai Pedersen, Tech Support Manager for Maxon, gives Take Five Videos a look at how Collada is used in the production pipeline. 

Video: Intel Software Partner Maxon Gives a Demonstration Using COLLADA at SIGGRAPH

6)  Joe Micallef, Side Effects Software, talks about Houdini 9.5 and shows the development of animation and gaming effects:

Video: Houdini 9.5 In the Intel SIGGRAPH booth

7)  Pre-SIGGRAPH Plugfest: Dr. Remi Arnaud and Rita Turkowski held a plug-fest where different companies came together to test COLLADA tools by sharing of gaming and digital content files and fixing bugs... Here are two videos from the plugfest:

Video:  Rita Turkowski and Amy Barton at the COLLADA Plugfest Event
Video: Dr. Remi Arnaud discusses the COLLADA Plugfest Event

Theres quite a bit more, but I will save that for my next post. You can see all of the videos at www.intel.com/software/videos. Click on the "Visual Computing" image to go to tab where all of the SIGGRAPH videos are posted.

Visualize. Create. Deliver.

Jerry & I are off to IDF today. Stay tuned, and leave any comments on the videos below.

Amy

Categories: Events, Gaming, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, Visual Computing

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August 18, 2008 12:29 PM PDT

Amy Barton (Intel)
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 Another video : Bunkspeed CEO & founder, Philip Lunn , discusses the photographic shift from 2D to 3d using Intel CPUs. Awesome how he creates new images. http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/videos/home.aspx?fn=1581

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