Call for Participation
A.I. revolution in VFX/CG
LA ACM SIGGRAPH webinar
We know it’s coming, the A.I. revolution in VFX/CG. The questions are when, how things will change, and what we should do to keep up. This event promises to answer these and more!
Date: Tuesday, 8 December 2020
Time: 6:30 – 8:45 pm (Pacific Time)
Where: on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7016057169267/WN_48SD6EUzQnmR5LZzTtUQMQ
Cost: Free
DESCRIPTION:
To start off our event we’ll bring you up to speed with some of the A.I. jargon like Machine Learning and Deep Learning etc. We then then examine some of the ways current tasks like face simulation, environment creation, image manipulation, and rotoscoping, are likely to change.
How will AI change the industry in general and how do we stay competitive? Come on December 8th, at 6:30 pm and find out!
SCHEDULE:
The webinar will open five minutes prior to the start of the event. There is no social time before the meeting so this event will begin promptly at 6:30 pm. Please join a couple of minutes early to make sure you don’t miss anything!
6:30 PM – introductions
6:36 PM – Intro to AI by Allan McKay (Catastrope FX)
6:46 PM – Face simulation/ creating virtual beings by Doug Roble (Digital Domain)
7:12 PM – Environment Creation by Ting-Chun Wang (NVIDIA)
7:38 PM – Image manipulation by Will Harris (Autodesk)
8:04 PM – Rotoscoping by Sam Hodge (Kognat)
8:30 PM – The future of VFX panel
8:45 PM – End
PRESENTERS:
- Rob Blau, Head of Pipeline, Shotgun Software (moderator)
- Allan McKay, Head of Studio, Catastrophic FX and VFX instructor
- Doug Roble, Senior Director of Software R&D at Digital Domain
- Ting-Chun Wang, Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA
- Will Harris, Flame Product Manager, Media & Entertainment solutions; Autodesk
- Sam Hodge, Founder of Kognat, makers of Rotobot
VENUE:
This is a virtual event on Zoom. Zoom registration will be needed.
REGISTRATION:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7016057169267/WN_48SD6EUzQnmR5LZzTtUQMQ
SPECIAL THANKS:
Allan McKay, Rob Blau, Paul Pianezza, Ken Turkowski, Doug Roble, Sam Hodge, Will Harris, Deke Kincaid, Ko Maruyama, and everyone on the Executive Committee of the LA chapter of SIGGRAPH.
Sunil Rampersad
Chair of LA ACM SIGGRAPH