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Conventions – Siggraph

SIGGRAPH (short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques) is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization.

In Memory – Kathy White

Working in the VFX industry, you have the luxury of passing thru many people's lives. As a freelancer, it is common for artists to jump from one studio to another and pretty quickly build a very large pool of familiar names, friends, and colleagues. But no matter how many names and faces you recognize down the hall, it is still a very difficult thing to accept when a familiar name comes across your screen and you find out that they are gone.

Featured Artist – Veronica Hernandez

Veronica Hernandez grew up in southern California and has been an artist ever since she can remember. Her parents felt like they couldn't buy her enough paper to draw on since she would draw on everything that had empty space on it, such as inside her book covers and even inside her lampshades. Although she wanted to ultimately be an artist, she ended up with a college degree in Cultural Anthropology.

Featured Artist – Todd Sheridan Perry

Todd Sheridan Perry grew up with movies. His mom wouldn't let him go see Jaws because he was 6 years old at the time. Perhaps a man-eating shark wasn't the best film for such a small child. Maybe Mom was right. That was the turning point, however, and there was no turning back. Like pointing your skis down your first Black Diamond, the journey may be rough, but you have no choice but to continue in the very direction you've started.

In Memory – Tomas Rosenfeldt

On Feb 10, 2003, Rhythm & Hues Studios received a company wide email from it's president, Mr. Hughes. Time stopped, and a massive amount of forwarding reached every company in the industry with the news of what was said.

In Memory – William Hanna

It was summer 1981, when I arrived in New York, from Colombia. As a child coming from a country where we only had 2 channels, which began at 8am and ended at 12am, my discovery of dozens of channels all hosting Saturday morning cartoons was a huge turning point in my young life. The only [...]