Mark A. Sagar

About Mark A. Sagar

Affiliations

LifeFX Networks, Inc.

Pacific Title / Mirage Studio

Sony Pictures Imageworks

University of Auckland, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Location

Hollywood, California, United States of America

Bio

SIGGRAPH 2019

Mark Sagar is an award winning researcher and facial expert. He is CEO of Soul Machines, which is humanizing the interface between people and machines by bringing technology to life through autonomously animated, emotionally responsive digital humans with virtual nervous systems and embodied cognitive architectures.

OTHER AFFILIATIONS: Weta Digital Ltd.

SIGGRAPH Member Profile

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Conference Contributions

Animations / Videos

The Turing Test

SIGGRAPH 2001

Directed by:

• Mark A. Sagar

Studio(s):

• LifeFX Networks, Inc.

SVR Issue #140, Track #26

The Jester

SIGGRAPH 1999

Directed by:

• Paul Charette
• Mark A. Sagar

Studio(s):

• Pacific Title / Mirage Studio

SVR Issue #131, Track #22

Experiences

Auckland Face Simulator

SIGGRAPH 2015

[Real-Time Live!]

Contributor(s):

• Mark A. Sagar
• David Bullivant
• Paul Robertson
• Oleg Efimov
• Khurram Jawed
• Ratheesh Kalarot
• Tim Wu
• Werner Ollewagen

BabyX

SIGGRAPH 2015

[Real-Time Live!]

Contributor(s):

• Mark A. Sagar
• David Bullivant
• Paul Robertson
• Oleg Efimov
• Ratheesh Kalarot
• Tim Wu

Presentations

SIGGRAPH 2024 Opening Session & Keynote Speaker: Mark Sagar, Beyond the Illusion of Life

SIGGRAPH 2024

[Keynotes]

Presenter(s):

• Mark A. Sagar

FACS at 40 Facial Action Coding System Panel

SIGGRAPH 2019

[Panels]

Presenter(s):

• John-Peter Lewis
• Erika Rosenberg
• Vladimir Mastilovic
• Mark A. Sagar

Entry #: 04

Facial performance capture and expressive translation for King Kong

SIGGRAPH 2006

Presenter(s):

• Mark A. Sagar

Performance-Driven Facial Animation

SIGGRAPH 2006

[Courses]

Organizer(s):

• Frederic (Fred) Pighin

Presenter(s):

• John-Peter Lewis
• George Borshukov
• Christoph (Chris) Bregler
• Parag Havaldar
• Jim Radford
• Mark A. Sagar
• Thomas Tolles
• Li Zhang

Entry #: 30

Reflectance Field Rendering of Human Faces for “Spider-Man 2”

SIGGRAPH 2004

Presenter(s):

• Mark A. Sagar
• John Monos
• John Schmidt
• Dan Ziegler
• Sing-Choong Foo
• Remington Scott
• Jeff Stern
• Chris Waegner
• Peter Nofz
• Tim Hawkins
• Paul E. Debevec

Acquiring the reflectance field of a human face

SIGGRAPH 2000

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Paul E. Debevec
• Tim Hawkins
• Chris Tchou
• Haarm-Pieter Duiker
• Westley Sarokin
• Mark A. Sagar

Creating volume-based virtual anatomy for bioengineering analysis

SIGGRAPH 1996

[Talks-Sketches]

Presenter(s):

• Mark A. Sagar
• Gordon D. Mallinson
• David Bullivant
• Peter J. Hunter

A virtual environment and model of the eye for surgical simulation

SIGGRAPH 1994

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Mark A. Sagar
• David Bullivant
• Gordon D. Mallinson
• Peter J. Hunter

Other Information

Roles

Computer Animation Director

Course Presenter

Keynote/Featured Speaker

Panel Presenter

Real-Time Live Presenter

Talk (Sketch) Presenter

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