[luau] ACM/SIGGRAPH MEETING TODAY

[Dennis T. Ching]

Where is this HIG building?

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From: "Dustin Cross" <dusty at sandust.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>; <hawaii-filmmakers at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 4:38 PM
Subject: [luau] ACM/SIGGRAPH MEETING TODAY


> 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
> 
> 
> 
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