Festival Data:

• Genre: Animation - Games (click to see)
• Accreditations: AMPAS

• Competitive
• Has Panels

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Festival Description:

Digital innovators, creative researchers, award-winning producers, provocative artists, energetic executives, and adventurous engineers. The worldwide SIGGRAPH community gathers annually in a different city to explore the products, systems, techniques, ideas, and inspiration that are creating the next three generations of computer graphics and interactive techniques

SIGGRAPH 2008 is evolving along with the computer graphics and interactive techniques community. The festival is dissolving the borders between traditional SIGGRAPH programs to create a more fluid, interdisciplinary conference, offering presenters more flexible options for sharing their work.

SIGGRAPH will be held this year in Los Angeles in August for the highest quality, most timely educational experiences the community has to offer, presented by the most powerful and most engaging leaders in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

In 2008, for the first time, the festival will include curated content, panels, and conversations, and all festival activities will be open to the public.

Juried Competition
All entries will be considered for the Best of Show award (qualifying the entry for Academy Award consideration), for a Jury Award, and several supporting awards. Audience favorites will be tallied daily, culminating in an Audience Prize. Awards will be presented during the final screening and presentation.

Curated Screenings
The Computer Animation Festival seeks the best computer-generated animation the digital world has to offer from the past, present, and future. Short form or long form, any subject or topic, feature-length animation or an already-curated group of screenings.

Conversations, Panels, and Discussions
The festival also invites ideas for panels, round-table discussions,and conversations about marketing, behind-the-scenes developments, production- related art, digital film production, retrospectives, and anything else you can think of in the animation realm. 

As you consider contributing to any area of the Computer Animation Festival, please keep the following categories in mind:

• Scientific visualization and research
• Narrative shorts
• Visual effects sequences
• Visual effects research
• Student animation
• Combined animation techniques (2D, 3D, Flash, etc.)
• Real-time visuals
• Promotional animation (commercials, PSAs, etc.)
• Machinima and other emerging techniques
• Animation retrospectives, documentaries, and related projects
• Works in progress

SIGGRAPH is interested in animation whether it was created, or whether it screened on a laptop, on a cell phone, on a game console, or at your local cineplex.