[luau] ACM/SIGGRAPH MEETING TODAY

[Dustin Cross]

Aloha,

This is a reminder that the local chapters of the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) and the ACM special interest group on computer graphics
(SIGGRAPH) is having a meeting today,
Thursday, January 30th, 6:30 pm
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics (HIG) building
Room 110
UH Manoa Campus


The topics will be:

The New UH Cinematic & Digital Arts program
by Chris Lee

Chris Lee was the former President of Production for TriStar Pictures and
Columbia Pictures. He worked on Academy Award-winning films such as "Jerry
Maguire," "Philadelphia" and "As Good as it Gets." Lee has also worked on
films such as "My Best Friend's Wedding," "The Mask of Zorro" and "The
Patriot." In addition, Lee also produced the computer animated movie "Final
Fantasy," which was being created in Hawai'i for five years.

and

The Making of ``Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within''
by Kaveh Kardan

Five years in the making, this movie was the first feature length project
to attempt to achieve a photorealistic look and create realistic human
characters. The presentation will cover the technical and production
challenges encountered over the course of the project.  Kaveh Kardan
graduated from MIT with a B.Sc. in Mathematics in 1985, and has been a
software developer in the computer graphics industry ever since, having
worked at NeoVisuals, Softimage, and Systeme Taarna. He was Manager of
Software R&D at SquareUSA (Honolulu) from 1997 to 2002 during the making of
the computer animated movie "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within".


http://www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/~nreed/acm030130.html


Dusty