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Join us at SIGGRAPH 2020 at the top of the hour!
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Doug Trumbull interview mentions his early work, straight out of college with Graphic Films, which is what first got them involved with Stanley Kubrick nitter.gq/agraphafx/status/10879…
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@agraphafx23 Jan 2019
To the Moon and Beyond was a 1964 film by Graphic Films - with work by Con Peterson and Douglas Trumbull, who went form there to work on 2001: A Space Odyssey. #VFXarchaeology Here is a good website on it scienceandfilm.org/articles/…
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Doug Trumbull interview mentions that the Robert Abel designs could not be completed in time (7 months) Here is a reference of those beautiful things third-wave-design.com/2017/0…

Richard Taylor Interview (part VI)

This is the final installment of a six part interview with Richard Taylor, the lead designer at Robert Abel & Associates, who were the original special effects team hired to produce the designs…

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.@CASTAC_AAA has this great book review of the rise of CG in the excellent Uncovering Hidden HERstories of Women in the Digital Arts. blog.castac.org/2019/08/unco… @emrazz @IrenaBuzarewicz
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a6300348@a63003481 Aug 2019
Fixed it for me... In all the years I've heard about Agrapha's #SIGGswag, I'd never even seen one of the shirts. But this year I scored #SIGGswag2019!! Thanks, agraphafx.com!

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a6300348@a63003481 Aug 2019
In all the years I've heard about Agrapha's #SIGGswag, I'd never even seen one of the shirts. But this year I scored #SIGGswag2019!! Thanks, agrapha.com!
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'How to Make A Planet: Visualizing Space at NASA/JPL' at SIGGRAPH 2019, Monday July 29, 10 AM, Rm 507. Jim Blinn, Julian Gómez, Zareh Gorjian, Robert Hurt, Joe T. Roberts. Graphics methods from 1970s to today. tinyurl.com/NASABOF2019
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'How to Make A Planet: Visualizing Space at NASA/JPL' at SIGGRAPH 2019, Monday July 29, 10 AM, Rm 507. Jim Blinn, Julian Gómez, Zareh Gorjian, Robert Hurt, Joe T. Roberts. Graphics methods from 1970s to today. tinyurl.com/NASABOF2019
If you are into #VFX at all, and like the history of older techniques that are almost lost in the fog — check out the #VFXarchaeology hashtag, or Facebook page. (#VFXdig as well) Join in the open exploration of VFX gone by
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Roger Guyett's version of film study. hollywoodreporter.com/behind…

How ‘Ready Player One’ VFX Supervisor Re-Created Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’

A look into how the 'Ready Player One' VFX Supervisor recreated 'The Shining.'

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Wonderfully playful/perverse Tomi Ungerer has died. Great visual thinker/outsider. We miss his vision. washingtonpost.com/local/obi…
The perfect crown for Tomi Ungerer

ALT The perfect crown for Tomi Ungerer

Racial injustice and Anti-war posters

ALT Racial injustice and Anti-war posters

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@agraphafx22 Jan 2019
The 1960 documentary that introduced Stanley Kubrick to the voice of HAL 9000 Universe youtu.be/48gIN4hGOdI
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Artist conceptions were very close to what our observation sensors captured.
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Awe-inspiring Saturn, observed by the Cassini probe on October 28, 2016.
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Filming the Los Angeles of the future in BLADE RUNNER, 1982.
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cysam@cysam13 Aug 2018
“There are many things you can’t tinker into existence.” - Ivan Sutherland the godfather of CG & first VR headset (in 1968) at #SIGGRAPH2018
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An article and link to our @GoogleARVR light fields talk at SIGGRAPH2018 uploadvr.com/siggraph-2018-l…
SIGGRAPH 2018: Learn About Google's Efforts To Capture Light Fields

SIGGRAPH 2018: Learn About Google's Efforts To Capture Light Fields

Google’s experts in light field capture technology revealed an in-depth look at their work at SIGGRAPH this week.

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#SIGGRAPH2018 Moolean is showing a method of checking the continuity of your model in VR. They're working on a VR modeler, too!
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An added speaker is graphics pioneer, Julian Gómez
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#SIGGRAPH2018 Creating Compelling CG worlds at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 10am, East Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre. rebeccaperryphd.weebly.com/
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#SIGGRAPH2018 Creating Compelling CG worlds at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 10am, East Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre. rebeccaperryphd.weebly.com/
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#SIGGRAPH2018 How JPL moved CG forward in ways that are still in use today. Wednesday, 15 August 2018, 10am, East Building, Room 13, Vancouver Convention Centre s2018.siggraph.org/presentat…
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