SIGGRAPH 2016 Pixar Speakers

Talk ("Get In Shape"): AutoSpline: Animation Controls Only When and Where You Need Them, Mark Hessler & Jeremie Talbot

• Anaheim Convention Center, Ballroom A

Talk ("Life Is Shorts"): Creating "Piper" – Pixar's Latest Short Film, Brett Levin, Alan Barillaro, Jason Deamer, Ferdi Scheepers, Erik Smitt

• Anaheim Convention Center, Ballroom B

Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice, Christophe Hery, Ryusuke Villemin (et. al.)

• Anaheim Convention Center, Ballroom E

Real-Time Graphics for Film Production at Pixar, Pol Jeremias & Dirk Van Gelder

• Anaheim Convention Center, Room #2010D

Talk ("Dancing Trees"): Vegetation Choreography in "The Good Dinosaur", Olivier Soares (Magic Leap), Thomas Moser, Frank Aalbers & Gordon Cameron

• Anaheim Convention Center, Room 303 A-C

Experience Presentation ("Creature Creation"): Shading Dory's New Friends, Trent Crow, Jonathan Hoffman, Maria Lee, Kiki Poh

Experience Presentation ("Creature Creation"): A Versatile Skin Material for "The Good Dinosaur", Ana Lacaze, Maria Lee

• Anaheim Convention Center, Room 304 A-B

Course: Vector-Field Processing on Triangle Meshes, Fernando de Goes, Mathieu Desbrun (California Institute of Technology) & Yiying Tong (Michical State University)

• Anaheim Convention Center, Room 303 A-C

Experience Presentation ("A Tall Drink of Water"): Lapping Water Effects in "Piper", Vincent Serritella, Hosuk Chang, Leon Park, Ferdi Scheepers & Brett Levin

Experience Presentation ("A Tall Drink of Water"): Simulating Rivers in "The Good Dinosaur", Jon Reisch, Stephen Marshall, Magnus Wrenninge, Tolga Goktekin, Michael Hall, Michael O'Brien, Jason Johnston, Jordan Rempel & Andy Lin

• Anaheim Convention Center, Room 303 A-C

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Open Source lunch (by invitation), George Elkoura, Sebastian Grassia, Alex Mohr & Sunya Boonyatera

• Hilton Anaheim, San Simeon AB Room, 4th Floor (3 minute walk from the Anaheim Convention Center)

OpenTimelineIO Demos & Discussion, Josh Minor & Stephan Steinbach

• Hilton Anaheim, San Simeon AB Room, 4th Floor (3 minute walk from the Anaheim Convention Center)

Talk ("Building Character"): Designing an Interaction With an Octopus, Jeremie Talbot, Mark Piretti, Kevin Singleton & Mark Hessler

• Anaheim Convention Center, Ballroom E

Real-Time Live!: Real-Time Graphics in Pixar Film Production, Dirk Van Gelder

• Hall B

Pixar OpenSource Celebration (by invitation)

• Hilton Anaheim - Oceanside Room, 4th Floor

Disney Research Mixer (by invitation)

• Tortilla Jo, Downtown Disney, 1510 Disneyland Drive, Anaheim

Talk ("It's Crowded In Here!"): MURE: Fast Agent-Based Crowd Simulation for VFX and Animation, Stephen Gustafson, Paul Kanyuk, Hemagiri Arumugam, Michael Lorenzen

• Anaheim Convention Center, Room 303 A-C

Production Session: Under the Sea – The Making of "Finding Dory", Steve Pilcher, Jeremie Talbot, Jim Brown, Masah Ellsworth, Chris Burrows, Chris Chapman, Ian Megibben, and John Halstead

• Anaheim Convention Center, Hall B

Birds of a Feather ("AnimTools"), Pixar & Walt Disney Animation Studios

• Hilton Anaheim, Manhattan Room 

Talk ("Playing God"): Constructing the Underwater World of "Finding Dory", Nathan Fariss & Antony Carysforth

Talk ("Playing God"): Procedural Terrains on Pixar's "The Good Dinosaur", Lane Pertusi, Inigo Quilez (Oculus Story Studio) & Noah Klocek

• Anaheim Convention Center, Ballroom B

RenderMan Art & Science Fair

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(USD Core) Sunya Boonyatera, George Elkoura, Shriram Iyer, Pol Jeremias-Vila | (USD Sets) Ed Luong, Matt Johnson | (Research) Kurt Fleischer, Mark Meyer, Tony DeRose, Rachel Lawrence, Tuur Stuyck, Boris Dalstein | (Presto) Dirk Van Gelder, Venkat Krishna, Ryan Stelzleni, Jason Kim, Aaron Koressel

• 5:30: Doors Open
• 7:15 - 8:30: Presentation
• 10:00: Close

Technical Paper Fast Forward ("Meshes & Fields"): Discrete Connection & Covariant Derivative for Vector-Field Analysis & Design, Fernando de Goes (+ other non-Pixarians)

Technical Paper Fast Forward ("Meshes & Fields"): Subdivision Exterior Calculus for Geometry Processing, Fernando de Goes, Mark Meyer, Tony DeRose (+ 1 other non-Pixarian)

• Anaheim Convention Center, Ballroom C 

Talk ("The 7 Deadly Sims"): Finding Hank: Or How To Sim an Octopus, William Wise

Talk ("The 7 Deadly Sims"): Finding Particulate in "Finding Dory", Stephen Gustafson, Daniel Chang & Aaron Conover

Talk ("The 7 Deadly Sims"): Volume-Modeling Techniques in "The Good Dinosaur", Magnus Wrenninge, Michael Rice

Talk ("The 7 Deadly Sims"): Making a Dinosaur Seem Small: Cloudscapes in "The Good Dinosaur", Matthew Webb, Magnus Wrenninge, Jordan Rempel & Cody Harrington

• Anaheim Convention Center, Room 303 A-C