SIGGRAPH 2021: 48th Annual Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
Chair(s):
Dates:
August 9-13, 2021
Website:
https://s2021.siggraph.org/
Conference Theme:
Virtual
Conference Overview:
ACM SIGGRAPH is a special interest group within ACM, and SIGGRAPH 2021 is the premier conference for computer graphics and interactive techniques worldwide. This year, we celebrated the industry and its innovators — where we’ve come from, where we are, and where we are going.
Animations Shown at the Conference:
Animations:

Blood Song: A Silent Ballad
Director(s): [Sutthithepthamrong]
Studio(s): [Zati Studio] [Thai Media Fund]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Gladius
Director(s): [Diaz]
Studio(s): [ESMA (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques)]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Hardspace: Shipbreaker - Opening Cinematic (Early Access)
Director(s): [Brown]
Studio(s): [Blackbird Interactive]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

I am a Pebble
Director(s): [Le Chapelain]
Studio(s): [ESMA (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques)]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Director(s): [Spendloff]
Studio(s): [Framestore] [Netflix]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

La vida de una Piñata
Director(s): [Elena]
Studio(s): [Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

One Small Step
Director(s): [Pontillas] [Chesworth]
Studio(s): [Taiko Animation Studios, Inc.]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

PV: The Dangers of Polycythemia Vera
Director(s): [Wishart]
Studio(s): [Madmicrobe Studios]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Signs of Life
Director(s): [Krupp]
Studio(s): [Griffith Observatory and Griffith Observatory Foundation]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Stranded
Director(s): [Sanglard]
Studio(s): [ESMA (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques)]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

The Source of the Mountains
Director(s): [Di Dio]
Studio(s): [ESMA (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques)]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

The Very Hungry Ducky
Director(s): [Song]
Studio(s): [Ringling College of Art and Design]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Tour of Asteroid Bennu
Director(s): [Elkins]
Studio(s): [NASA Scientific Visualization Studio]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Trésor (Treasure)
Director(s): [Manzanares] [Cosenza] [Merten] [Moutte-Roulet]
Studio(s): [École des Nouvelles Images]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Unknown 9: Awakening Teaser Trailer
Director(s): [Amancio]
Studio(s): [Reflector Entertainment] [DIGIC Pictures Ltd.]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]
Art Show Entries:
Art Show Entries:
Experience Entries:
Appy Hour:

Type: [Appy Hour]
Colors - One: Perceptually Based Color Photo Editing
Developer(s): [Vladusich]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Appy Hour]
Forward Selfies
Developer(s): [Trenz] [Klingbeil] [Pasewaldt] [Döllner] [Trapp]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Appy Hour]
From A-Pose to AR-Pose: Animating Characters in Mobile AR
Developer(s): [Valente] [Esteves] [Lopes]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Appy Hour]
MotionViz: Artistic Visualization of Human Motion on Mobile Devices
Developer(s): [Mayer] [Trenz] [Pasewaldt] [Klingbeil] [Döllner] [Trapp] [Semmo]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Appy Hour]
Museum Alive With David Attenborough
Developer(s): [Patel] [Mcewan] [Graves]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]
Birds of a Feather:
Emerging Technology:
Fjorg!:
Games:
International Center Talks & SIGGRAPH Theater:
Real-Time Live!:

Type: [Real-Time Live!]
Coretet: Virtual Reality Musical Instruments for the 21st Century
Developer(s): [Hamilton]
Entry No.: [111]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Real-Time Live!]
Future Classroom
Developer(s): [Perlin] [Christopher] [He] [Layng]
Entry No.: [115]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Real-Time Live!]
I am AI : AI-driven Digital Avatar Made Easy
Developer(s): [Liu] [Nagano] [Seol] [Valle] [Seo] [Wang] [Mallya] [Khamis] [Ping] [Badlani] [Shih] [Catanzaro] [Yuen] [Kautz]
Entry No.: [103]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Real-Time Live!]
Normalized Avatar Digitization for Communication in VR
Developer(s): [Li] [Wang] [Wei] [Goldwhite] [Hu] [Mosco] [Kung] [Luo] [Nagano]
Entry No.: [122]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Real-Time Live!]
Shading Rig: Dynamic Art-Directable Stylised Shading for 3D Characters
Developer(s): [Petikam] [Anjyo] [Rhee]
Entry No.: [105]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Real-Time Live!]
Technical Art Behind The Animated Short “Windup”
Developer(s): [Kang]
Entry No.: [113]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Real-Time Live!]
The LiViCi Music Series: Real-Time Immersive Musical Circus Performance
Developer(s): [Goldberg] [Tetreault]
Entry No.: [101]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]
Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs):

Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
Action Reproducer: Virtual Reality Rehabilitation System to Reduce Fear of Walking
Organizer(s): [Unno] [Kikuchi] [Yamaoka] [Sueta] [Yem] [Ikei]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
Dynamic Projection Mapping for Thin Plants using a Robust Tracking Method against Occlusion
Organizer(s): [Sueyoshi] [Morimoto]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
Electriflow: Augmenting Books With Tangible Animation Using Soft Electrohydraulic Actuators
Organizer(s): [] [Novack] [Acome] [Alistar] [Keplinger] [Gross] [Bruns] [Leithinger]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
How a Basement Inventor Builds Volumetric Displays
Organizer(s): [Foisy]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
JetController: High-speed Ungrounded 3-DoF Force Feedback Controllers Using Air Propulsion Jets
Organizer(s): [Wang] [Lin] [Miyatake] [Tsai] [Ku] [Chen]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
MIDI Usage for Modeling and Animation in Houdini
Organizer(s): [Chernyy] [Mishurenko]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
Rapid Prototyping Approach for Audio Augmented Reality User Experiences
Organizer(s): [Järvinen]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Studio (SIGGRAPH Labs)]
The XVJ (Xpressive Video-Jockey)
Organizer(s): [Mulder]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]
VR Experiences:
Learning Entries:
- Nicolas Henchoz
- Margaux Charvolin
- Delphine Ribes
- Lara Défayes
- Cédric Duchêne
- Emily Groves
- Andreas Sonderegger
Art Papers & Presentations:
"Can the Subaltern Speak?": Critical Making in Design
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"Can the Subaltern Speak?": Feminism in Robotic Mask Design
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"drop": An Interactive Art Installation with Water Drop Projection-Mapping
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"The Woods": A Mixed Reality Two-Player Cooperative Game
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Bad Mother / Good Mother: The Poetics and Politics of the Sounds of Invisible Labor
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Cangjie's Poetry
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Cangjie's Poetry: An Interactive Art Experience of A Semantic Human-Machine Reality
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Imaginary Stroke Movement Measurement and Visualization
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Instruments of Vision: Eye Tracking and Robotics as an Embodied Interface
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Jan van Eyck's Perspectival System Elucidated Through Computer Vision
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Making Up 3D Bodies: Artistic and Serendipitous Modeling of Digital Human Figures
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Mimicry: Genetic-Algorithm-Based Real-Time System of Virtual Insects in a Living Environment - A New and Altered Nature
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Ming Shan Digital Experience: Immersive Technology for Traditional Taoist Meditation
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ReMember: Using Biosignals to Recall Memories of Companion Animals
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Reversal, Disconnect, and Proposition: Noise and Data Politics in the work of Julian Oliver and Trevor Paglen
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Spinning the Conductive Threads of an Indigenous Tradition. Toward a Continuity Between the Traditional Andean Fabric and the New Electronic Technologies
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Visualization of the Imaginary Stroke Movement of Painting and Calligraphy
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Courses:

Type: [Courses]
Advances in Neural Rendering
Organizer(s): [Tewari]
Presenter(s): [Sitzmann] [Fried] [Thies] [Xu] [Tretschk] [Mildenhall] [Pandey] [Orts-Escolano] [Fanello] [Guo] [Wetzstein] [Zhu] [Theobalt] [Agrawala] [Zollhöfer]
Entry No.: [01]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
An Interactive Introduction to WebGL
Organizer(s): [Angel]
Presenter(s): [Shreiner]
Entry No.: [05]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
An Introduction to Deep Learning on Meshes
Organizer(s): [Hanocka]
Presenter(s): [Liu]
Entry No.: [18]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
Color Management with OpenColorIO V2
Organizer(s): [Walker]
Presenter(s): [Payne] [Dolan] [Hodoul]
Entry No.: [08]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
Color Matters for Digital Media & Visualization
Organizer(s): [Rhyne]
Presenter(s): [Rhyne]
Entry No.: [12]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
Contact and Friction Simulation for Computer Graphics
Organizer(s): [Andrews]
Presenter(s): [Erleben]
Entry No.: [02]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
Future Reality Lab: Inventing the XR Future
Organizer(s): [Perlin]
Presenter(s): [Perlin]
Entry No.: [07]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
Gaze-aware Displays and Interaction
Organizer(s): [Mania]
Presenter(s): [McNamara] [Polychronakis]
Entry No.: [09]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
Geometry Processing with Intrinsic Triangulations
Organizer(s): [Sharp]
Presenter(s): [Gillespie] [Crane]
Entry No.: [06]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
Introduction to WebXR
Organizer(s): [Kenwright]
Presenter(s): [Kenwright]
Entry No.: [03]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
Least Squares for Programmers: With Color Plates
Organizer(s): [Sokolov]
Presenter(s): [Ray] [Corman]
Entry No.: [13]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
New Techniques in Interactive Character Animation
Organizer(s): [Llobera]
Presenter(s): [Booth] [Charbonnier]
Entry No.: [16]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
OPENVDB
Organizer(s): [Museth]
Presenter(s): [Museth]
Entry No.: [04]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
Practical Machine Learning for Rendering: From Research to Deployment
Organizer(s): [Marshall]
Presenter(s): [Marshall]
Entry No.: [10]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
Spectral Imaging in Production
Organizer(s): [Weidlich]
Presenter(s): [Forsythe] [Dyer] [Mansencal] [Hanika] [Wilkie] [Emrose] [Langlands]
Entry No.: [14]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Courses]
TensorFlow Graphics: Differentiable Computer Graphics in TensorFlow
Organizer(s): [Öztireli]
Presenter(s): [Häne] [Cole] [Rematas] [Bouaziz]
Entry No.: [17]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]
Educator’s Forum:

Type: [Educator’s Forum]
A Whirlwind Introduction to Computer Graphics
Presenter(s): [Bailey]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Educator’s Forum]
An Introduction to Python Scripting in Autodesk Maya
Presenter(s): [McNamara]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Educator’s Forum]
From Creative Coding to Digital Humans: Proceduralism as a Catalyst for Storytelling
Presenter(s): [Syed] [Echevarria] [Jaegers] [Shi] [Trewavas] [Matich] [Zhang] [Lee]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Interactive Illustrations on HTML5 Canvas A Creative Introduction to Computer Programming
Presenter(s): [Echeverry]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Educator’s Forum]
LED Paper: Physical Computing with Handmade Paper
Presenter(s): [Brunvand]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Multiplayer Retro Web-Based Game Development
Presenter(s): [Kenwright]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Photogrammetry for a Virtual Reality Nature Scene
Presenter(s): [Johnson] [Johnson]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Taking the Leap Student Futures in Creative Careers
Presenter(s): [DeYoung] [Keesling] [Kazi] [Biggs]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]

Type: [Educator’s Forum]
Virtual Production for Remote Teaching Modalities Adapting Sustainable Remote Teaching and Learning Environments by Leveraging Real-time Computer Graphics
Presenter(s): [Jushchyshyn] [Parks]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]
Exhibitor Sessions:
Keynote:
Panels:

Type: [Panels]
Artist-Centered Design for Feature Animation
Presenter(s): [Wild] [Anes] [Kim] [Kim]
Entry No.: [03]
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Type: [Panels]
Creating a diverse workplace with authentic multicultural voices; how can we create real long-term equality?
Presenter(s): [Beckmann-Wells] [Carey] [Duhamel] [Johnson] [Champavere]
Entry No.: [04]
[SIGGRAPH 2021]
Posters:
SIGKids:
Talks (Sketches):
Technical Papers: