Who's going to #SIGGRAPH2026? 👍👍 This guy! Our animated short "Dear Upstairs Neighbors" is in the Computer Animation Festival, and we're also doing a Production Session about it on Thursday July 23 at 11:15am. If you'll be there, come say hi!
https://s2026.conference-schedule.org/?post_type=page&p=15&id=pros_109&sess=sess161
Instinctively Real Media: TrailblaXR Curated News #10
Newsletter // #10, 2026 Instinctively Real Media shining the starlight on industry trailblazers shooting for the stars! May in the TrailblaXR Magazine spotlights facial animation and 3D character performance – where subtle expression meets evolving technology Our latest exclusive explores how one Senior 3D Animator translates intent into believable digital humans across games, commercials, VFX and real-time, and how AI is accelerating learning and workflows without replacing the human […]https://instinctivelyreal.com/2026/05/08/instinctively-real-media-trailblaxr-curated-news-10/
Exclusive TrailblaXR Interview: Inside High-Fidelity Facial Animation and Character Performance
From Wētā FX and Framestore to fast-moving production pipelines, Katie Naeher Kaliniak's work focuses on capturing nuance — translating subtle expression and intent into believable, high-fidelity performance. Now a Senior 3D Animator, she combines artistic sensitivity with technical precision, crafting characters that not only look convincing but feel authentic, whether on screen or in-engine.
My work "Application of Implicit Surface and Signed Distance Field to Wellbore Data Visualization," will be presented at the 2026 #I3D #ACM #SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, hosted at LucasFilm, San Francisco !
No AI, no big computing clusters, no costly infrastructure, but a way to display geoscience data on a small laptop.
Siggraph has always been the ultimate conference for me since I drew my first triangles on a TI82 in High School, and I am extremely proud to have my work present at such a prestigious event.
Because of travel restriction, I won't be able to assist in person, but my colleague Hendrik Schroots will be there.
Lanny Smoot, one of Disney's most prolific inventors, is the first Keynote speaker announced for SIGGRAPH 2026.
#LannySmoot #Disney #SIGGRAPH
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2026/03/disney-inventor-lanny-smoot-sets-siggraph-26-keynote-speech/
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