Electronic Theater
2006-10-31 05:10:13.115565+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
Went over to Pixar today to catch a SIGGRAPH 2006 Electronic Theater showing in glorious 1080p with a 4k projector. And apparently there are some licensing issues that prevent the DVD from having all of the content, but the purpose of this screening was so that Terrence could show the whole thing.
An interesting show, I'm not sure I've got anything to say about the state of computer graphics, at least not from what I saw today. A few "that's really cool" (and the Germans are taking the CG lead from the Canadians, in a big way), a couple of "that's really funny", and since I know a few folks who were on the jury panel and know that one particular short was unanimously voted the worst submission of the year, I was kind of disappointed that I didn't see that one.
What I realized, though, was that I should have contacted Mark or Tom or Tom or Arun or someone over there. It used to be that I knew a lot of people, now there are a lot of unfamiliar faces, or a few familiar but not quite clicking ones. Still talked with a few folks, had a fun time, but didn't get a thing done on my real work today.