Selections for the Oscar-qualifying festival include outstanding achievements in animated feature and short films, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, game excerpts, and many others.
A new trailer with highlights from the 2016 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival, taking place this year in Anaheim, CA July24-28, is now online.
An internationally recognized jury receives hundreds of submissions and presents the best work of the year in the two programs of the Computer Animation Festival: the Electronic Theater and Daytime Selects. Selections that will be shown this year include outstanding achievements in animated feature and short films, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, game excerpts, and many others.
The Computer Animation Festival is recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival. Since 1999, several works originally presented in the Computer Animation Festival have been nominated for or have received a Best Animated Short Academy Award.
Find out more about the Computer Animation Festival at SIGGRAPH 2016 at 2016.siggraph.org.
Source: ACM SIGGRAPH
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
