Tickets are available for this week's SF #SIGGRAPH talk! "Superman: Harnessing Numeric Power for Cinematic Magic"

Wētā FX VFX Supervisors Guy Williams and Jo Davison will discuss the VFX for Pocket Universe, battling a Kaiju and re-creating Metropolis.

This virtual event is happening Wednesday, December 3, 5pm Pacific.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/superman-harnessing-numeric-power-for-cinematic-magic-tickets-1968836990438

#superman #weta #vfx #kaiju #PocketUniverse #Metropolis

Live from Vancouver: our SIGGRAPH mini report.

• Generative VFX workflow (Stable Diffusion → Nuke)
• “Creative” no-code engine: procedural worlds, physics, AI text-to-scene, one-click publishing

If you’re exploring AI as a production co-pilot in VFX or gamedev, this one’s for you.

Watch + join the discussion on tools, ethics, and real pipelines.

https://youtu.be/ctgtKewfyOE

#VancouverAI #SIGGRAPH #VFX #GameDev #NoCode #CreativeAI

All slides from this year’s Advances In Real-Time Rendering In Game course at #SIGGRAPH are now online… some really good stuff in there you shouldn’t miss:

https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index.html

I met Andrew Glassner at #SIGGRAPH back in the early 1990s, when I was still a #ComputerGraphics academic researcher. I remember him as a superb communicator. His recent book is a non-#CG one: "Deep Learning: A Visual Approach" (2021). This book contains no equations at all, only simple diagrams and illustrations. A tour de force of visual communication, that. Go, CG!

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Approach-Andrew-Glassner/dp/1718500726

I like #AI as a computation tool but, as my friends on MathsTodon know, I genuinely detest the common way #DL is now being taught to #ComputerScience and #DataScience undies—no maths, just API call-fest. Consequently, new CS and DS grads entering #IT—who are fashioning themselves as "#AI experts", either due to profit motive or through sheer ignorance—lack the adequate mathematical and intuitive understanding of this rather "deep" subject. Andrew's new book will not remedy their maths shortcoming, of course, but it surely will give them a thorough, intuitive grasp of DL, IT's current "darling of the day".

Indeed, this book is so gentle that I dare say 8th graders could be taught DL, out of it. That is my ardent endorsement of this book.

Armed with this intuition, those youngsters with adequate background in undergraduate maths could move up to books like "#DeepLearning", Goodfellow (2016) and "Pattern Recognition and #MachineLearning", Bishop (2006).

ILM at SIGGRAPH 2025

#ILMVFX #SIGGRAPH #StarWars #FanthaTracks #ILMVFX #SIGGRAPH 

ILM were at SIGGRAPH 2025.

Read the whole story at the below link:

https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/conventions-events/ilm-at-siggraph-2025/?fsp_sid=38438