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| The LA Convention center, with such notable movies as "Rush Hour" having been filmed there. Look at the kick ass banner they had set up for Siggraph? All the rest of LA could only drive past and marvel at our geeky glory! Also take note of the none rush hour traffic on the TWELVE lane highways! It could be 3 in the morning and the highways were still crowded there. LA was by far one of the dirtiest, busiest, smoggy, all around unpleasant cities I have been to. But Siggraph was there... so it rocked by association. |
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| Pixar had a kick ass booth! Everyone morning when the floor opened people would literally run to it to get one of the uber cool Incredibles posters they were giving out. The line would wrap all the way around the right side of the convention hall, the first photo there doesn't do it justice. Later in the week I got to sit down with a Pixar intern and talk with him for like 30 minutes. One of my highlights :-D |
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| Disney had a booth set up right accross from the SCAD booth. They were heavily pushing Chicken little, as well as a few of their up and coming films. |
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| The first two photos are from the Blue Sky booth, where they were showing off thier soon to be released "Robots" movie. This is the ONLY non pixar feature film that I am really pumped about. For those of you who don't know Blue Sky are the same people who made "Ice Age". Below theose pictures are a few random booths, take note of the Apple booth, probably one of the largest there. They were really pushing their new "Production Suite" which included Final Cut, Shake, and Motion. They also had all of they new hardware, includding the glory that is the new 30inch HD monitors... which you can see me drooling over in the photo. Finally the last photo is just after our professor got us on the show room floor a day early and took us to the scad booth, so here we are showing off are spiffy scad tote bags after being chased of the floor by Apple security, which was super spiffy! |
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| These photos were taken while we were waitng for the electronic theatre to start. About 15 minutes before show time the siggraph staff unleashed these giant silver balls on the crowd, and a video game appeared on the movie screen that tracked where the real balls were in the crowd, and mapped them out on the screen. The object of the game was for the crowd to hit the balls in certain areas of the audiance, which matched up with the same areas on the screen and had "bubbles" for us to pop with our balls. It was pour chaos with twenty or so of these balls being hurled around, and it took awhile for the crowd to figure out to look at the movie screen for which directions to hit the balls. It was definatly the coolest waiting time I have ever had at a theatre. |
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| Two random funny photos, one of me, and one of Sean (he is going to cal tech this summer) |
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| Photos from the "Descret" party. Descret is the company that makes the 3d Studio Max software. They introduced the brand new 3d Studio Max 7 package at the presentation (which looks awsome). But the party was by far the best part. It was at the Mariot hotel pool, and it was PLUSH! We had an incredible view of the city all lit up, and it was open bar and food. You can tell we enjoyed ourselves. |
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