Hasta La Motion!

A list of the VFX/Production panels, talks, sessions and courses at SIGGRAPH ’09. Here are a few highlights:

• Building Benjamin Button: A Blending of Technique-ologies
• Robots, Cyborgs, and the Final Frontier: An Inside Look at Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Terminator Salvation, and Star Trek
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Making Mouthwatering 3D
• Monsters vs Stereo: How Stereo Affected Production on Monsters vs Aliens
• Two Bolts and a Button
• G-Force 3D: Guinea Pigs, Gadgets, and Post-Production Stereoscopic Filmmaking
• Coraline: The Changing Face of Animation
• Making Pixar’s Partly Cloudy: A Director’s Vision
• The Spine and Psychologically Driven Animation

Levine/Leavitt introducing photographer Nick Meek

Sexy stuff by TANGRAM, Tokyo based visual design studio.

Lumiere is a powerful Adobe Photoshop® commercial plugin capable of generating advanced glow effects.

“Visual effects, rethink’d.” Digital visual effects by Oblique.