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SA '12: SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Computer Animation Festival
ACM2012 Proceeding
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  • Association for Computing Machinery
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  • United States
Conference:
SA '12: SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Singapore Singapore 28 November 2012- 1 December 2012
ISBN:
978-1-4503-1914-0
Published:
28 November 2012
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Abstract

The premier and most innovative computer animation festival in the world. An internationally recognized jury receives hundreds of submissions and presents the best work of the year in daily Animation Theater and Electronic Theater screenings.

Selections include outstanding achievements in time-based art, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, and narrative shorts. This year, look out for a 3D virtual fashion show put together from research based on original clothes.

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Best in show award: the people who never stop
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Jury award: oh sheep!
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Load

A man covered in responsibilities and burdened by the weight of his work is swept away on a journey.

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Jack and Chuck

Chuck, the writer without arms, meets Smiley Jack, the strange fat bearded salesman. A pact will be sealed to allow Chuck to find back the capacity to write.

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Freestyle2 the movie: Buzzer Beater
Article No.: 5, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407608

Freestyle2 the movie- Buzzer Beater™ is a game trailer for an online basketball game, Freestyle2.

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Sequoia snail
Article No.: 6, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407609

As part of a campaign of three films, designed by Marcel agency, The Snail film for the brand Sequoia Belgian won a Bronze Lion. This is an ultra-realistic 3D interview of a snail.

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Inside the human body
Article No.: 7, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407610

'Inside the Human Body' is a series for BBC One and The Learning Channel exploring the wonders of the human body. Using spectacular CGI based on real images and the latest scientific research, we are taken on a voyage through the workings of the inner ...

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Rosette

In a cured meats deli, a customer starts fantasizing about the butcher. She takes us into a clichéd vision of couple-hood, transcribed, for better or for worse, within a universe of pork products.

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For the remainder

An atmospheric and vague, painterly rendered 3D animated short that envisions a view upon an old house cat who bids farewell to his home in his final moments.

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Sequoia skunk

As part of a campaign of three films, designed by Marcel agency, The Snail film for the brand Sequoia Belgian won a Bronze Lion. This is an ultra-realistic 3D interview of a skunk.

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Mimic
Article No.: 11, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407614

Mimic is an experimental video of a hyper dense block of objects driven by music collides, collapses, spread into random formations and disintegrates at frantic speed.

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Luigi's pizzaride 3D
Article No.: 12, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407615

This is a classical motion ride movies, in which the whole action takes place through the eyes of the protagonist.

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Amnesty international break the law of silence
Article No.: 13, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407616

CRCR break the law of silence with a film for Amnesty International which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary. The film mixes comic book style and elements that make a real impact taking to denounce the rights of citizens are violated.

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Time lapse radiance
Article No.: 14, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407617

This is a computer animation created using procedural programming.

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Goat and Aaron
Article No.: 15, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407618

Two brothers work out their differences amidst the beauty of nature.

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9 states of ambivalence

Station ID for Japanese music TV-station Space Shower.

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Amen!
Article No.: 17, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407620

What would God do if he'd see how his word is told between the humans? A dark humor parable about a priest who completely overshoots the mark during his sermon for his last visitor.

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The people who never stop
Article No.: 18, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407621

The story of a crowd who never stop, for the best and the worst.

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Planet Dinosaur
Article No.: 19, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407622

Planet Dinosaur is a 6 X 30-minute series for BBC One/Discovery, entirely constructed in CGI. The first major dinosaur series for the channel since Walking with Dinosaurs, this ambitious series covers 24 different stories and over 50 dinosaurs from ...

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Hominid
Article No.: 20, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407623

Hominid depicts an ecosystem of x-ray visibility. Creatures have evolved in surprising ways, where humans, birds, spiders and frogs share unique anatomies. The bones and organs of predators and prey are exposed as they struggle against each other for ...

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Una furtiva lagrima
Article No.: 21, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407624

The last journey of a fish as it sings its own requiem, from its sale at the fish market all the way into the frying pan.

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How to eat your apple
Article No.: 22, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407625

'How to eat your Apple' is an extension of Erick's recent illustration series in the form of an animated poem. It is without a protagonist, a defined narrative, set point of camera view or any other aspect of mainstream film language.

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Reflexion
Article No.: 23, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407626

In a fashion clothes store in Paris, Louise looks at her reflection in the surrounding mirrors. Tonight, she has a rendezvous with Jules, her fiancé. Suddenly she notices that she's late, and goes off, in great haste, at her flat, to get ready.

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Ramus
Article No.: 24, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407627

A thunderstorm separates a young branch from his mother tree, and sends him falling into the town below. The small sapling, named Ramus, awakens and quickly realizes that this may be his worst nightmare.

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Drown to life

The story starts with an ink drop falling on a sketchpad and, quite predictably, the impact gives life to a drawing; shortly after, things get out of control.

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Sequoia mantis
Article No.: 26, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407629

As part of a campaign of three films, designed by Marcel agency, The Snail film for the brand Sequoia Belgian won a Bronze Lion. This is an ultra-realistic 3D interview of a mantis.

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Kia 'Share Some Soul'

This VFX-heavy spot introduces the significantly refreshed 2012 Kia Soul and debuted during the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. It stars the wildly popular hamsters from previous Kia commercials, along with two sets of robot armies engaged in a fantastic ...

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Aalterate

A body experiences extreme inner tension. Its slowly mutating silhouette gradually invades an empty space to a point of complete saturation.

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Hatching
Article No.: 29, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407632

Hatching, a short film about how a loving mother-daughter relationship turns tense at certain point. The see-through glass belly manifests the bond between them being intimate, delicate yet fragile.

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The last photo
Article No.: 30, Pages 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/2407603.2407633

A young girl desperately searches for her soldier father who has gone missing in war. Through photography, The Last Photo explores the father/daughter relationship and the experiences of war through the eyes of a child.

Contributors
  • University of Geneva

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Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 178 of 869 submissions, 20%
YearSubmittedAcceptedRate
SIGGRAPH ASIA '102744918%
SIGGRAPH Asia '092757025%
SIGGRAPH Asia '083205918%
Overall86917820%