SIGGRAPH Pioneers Chair Ed Kramer is incredibly honored to announce DOUGLAS TRUMBULL as our Featured Speaker for 2020! Trumbull will share a video retrospective of his Academy Award-winning career, which he is editing exclusively for the SIGGRAPH Pioneers. His video will be posted for public screening on Friday, August 7, 2020. Trumbull will then appear…
Pioneering UK Professor discusses VR, AR, MR, XR and digitally recreating ancient history What an honor to interview Professor Bob Stone, Chair in Interactive Multimedia Systems at University of Birmingham, UK, and one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of eXtended Reality. As he explains, XR encompasses Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality,…
ED KRAMER’s vacation across the beautiful countrysides of Ireland and Northern Ireland concluded with two panel appearances at this year’s WorldCon, held at the The Convention Centre in Dublin Ireland on Sunday, 18 August. Ed appeared first on “The Golden Age of Animated Science Fiction” then later that day on “Tales From the World of…
Planned a trip to Ireland, then discovered we will be there for Dublin WorldCon – now I will be a Panelist! https://dublin2019.com/whos-coming/programme-participants/ Lots of awesome Panelists: The Golden Age of Animated SF Format: Panel 18 Aug 2019, Sunday 14:00 – 15:00, Liffey Room-1 (CCD) We are in a Golden Age of Animation. Animated form and content…
SIGGRAPH Pioneers Reception – Annual event at SIGGRAPH conference recognizing those who have been at the forefront of CGI research for more than 20 years
On Tuesday evening, students attending the LYNX Camp summer program of the University of Colorado’s Denver campus welcomed CGI pioneer and historian Ed Kramer. Kramer’s presentation, titled “Wizards of Hollywood”, revealed the often-overlooked evolution of the CGI industry, as illustrated by stories from his own 40-year career. Students learned how his love of monster magazines…
Ed will be presenting his Wizards of Hollywood keynote about the hidden history of CGI at the LYNX National Arts & Media Camps College of Arts & Media University of Colorado Denver 6:30 – 8:00pm https://artsandmedia.ucdenver.edu/prospective-students/lynx-camps/lynx-guest-artists
According to Ed Kramer, the new Chair of the SIGGRAPH Pioneers Group, the keynote speaker for the 2019 Pioneers Reception is JEFF KLEISER. The reception will be held on July 30 at this year’s SIGGRAPH Conference in Los Angeles, in the Gold Ballroom of the JW Marriott at 6:00pm. Jeff Kleiser has been at the…
Ed is appearing as a roundtable expert on Post-Production in Colorado
What an unexpected honor! In May, I was approached by Frank Foster, the current President of the SIGGRAPH Pioneers Group, to see if I would take over the post he has filled for the last five years. SIGGRAPH is the world’s leading organization devoted to the art and science of Computer Graphics, and I have…