Upcoming Event
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The Los Angeles Professional Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH Presents:

IMAX VFX: Deisgn and Execution
Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Come join us for the GIANT season finale as we discuss some of the very unique visual effects in the IMAXmovie Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon, the movie that was awarded Best Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project this year by the Visual Effects Society. Hear Tim Sassoon and Johnathan Banta of Sassoon Film Design present some of their work from the movie with moderator Marty Shindler. Craig Barron of Matte World Digital will present work on the IMAX movie MacGillivray Freeman’s Greece:Secrets of the Past. Myles Connolly, Editor on Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France, will discuss the unique computer graphics aspects of that movie.

Presenters:
Craig Barron – Matte World Digital – Greece : Secrets of the Past

Myles Connolly – Editor Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France

Jim Carbonetti - Magnificent Desolation Walking on the Moon 3D

View papers on:
Magnificent Desolation Lunar Excursion Sequences.
Paper 1: (5MB Adobe PDF file)
Paper 2: (1.2 MB Adobe PDF file)
Credited:
John Knoll and Paul Fjeld

Moderator:
Marty Shindler

Click here for speaker bios.

Program:
6:30-7:30pm Social Hour – Appetizers & “No-Host”Cash Bar at Karl Strauss Brewing Company
7:30-8:00pm Announcements and short presentationon SIGGRAPH 2006 at the IMAX theater
8:00-10:00pm Speakers Presentation & screening of“Magnificent Desolation” in IMAX 3D!

Location:
Social Hour
Karl Strauss Brewing Company / Universal CityWalk
1000 Universal Studios Blvd., Suite M-41
Universal City, CA 91608
(818) 753-BREW
Location information

Presentation and Screening
Universal CityWalk / IMAX Theater
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608
map and more information (Adobe PDF file)

Parking/Transportation:
http://www.citywalkhollywood.com/
information_parking.html
Park on-site at Universal CityWalk for $10.00. The Jurassic Parking Lot,(Lot # 6 on the map below), is closest.
http://www.citywalkhollywood.com/
groupsales/pdfs/ucw_map.pdf

OR

If you are in or near either Hollywood or North Hollywood, you can take the Metrorail Red Line from either of those stations & get off at the Universal
City station. Here's the schedule:
http://www.metro.net/images/802.pdf

Membership/Fees:
The event is free to current LA SIGGRAPH members and $35 for those who choose to join at the event,(checks or cash only). Anyone can join LA SIGGRAPH andLA SIGGRAPH encourages new members. There is a $ 15.00Registration Fee for all walk-in attendees.

For membership information, please visit the membership section

Special Thanks:

Julie Janower Klein
Diana Lee
Marty Shindler
The IMAX Corporation
Members of the Executive Council
And to our volunteers

Mission Statement
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L.A. ACM SIGGRAPH is a Professional Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics, serving the Los Angeles area. Our goal is to bring members in depth coverage of the latest developments and achievements in the field of computer graphics including Animation, Visual Effects, Motion Capture, Multi-Media, Internet and Web Design, Virtual Reality, and others.