Post SIGGRAPH picture dump
OK, back from San Diego with most of my internal organs in tact. Here are some pictures from my fabulous trip. The people I went with and met and talked to were awesome. The show itself was forgettable and I can't really say much about the Autodesk or Houdini events, nothing positive anyways (Emerging Technologies Exhibit was more like "Crappy Art and Boring Machines exhibit"). The best part of the trip involved skipping my overpriced Houdini Master classes so that I could meet Graham Johnson and David Goodsell and visit their lab at Scripps...
Yup, got to meet David Goodsell, famous molecular artist and author of the "Molecule of the Month" feature on the RSCB site.
some of his analog artwork:
Along with David I met Graham Johnson, Scientific Illustrator and animator extrodinaire. I also hung out with 2005 Maya Master (back when it meant something!) and famous molecular animator Drew Berry. I met Eddy Xuan, who evaded my camera completely. He gave a Maya Master Class(which I missed) on Scientific Visualization. I got to see some of his reel, amazing stuff! And of course I enjoyed the company of the dynamic duo of Harvard molecular animation Gael McGill and Janet Isawa.
Gael and Graham at the Autodesk party (red alert apparently):
From left to right: Graham, Me, Drew, and Janet. Drew was enjoying the pizza-like foam rubber they served at the party (Gael took the picture to avoid appearing on this blog again):
Back to the lab...
The most exciting aspect of the lab was the 3D printer which created Gypsum and plastic models of molecular structures. I actually got to break a nucleosome (sorry guys!). Here are some images....
here is themachine that maked the models, you have to dig them out of the sand with archeologist's tools.
OK, then it was back to SIGGRAPH for the Orwellian Autodesk user group and the Autodesk party aboard the USS Midway. There were fireworks...
and Go-Go Girls:
and there was Ban, who enjoyed the ambience...
Tuesday was all about the exhibit floor. Check out John Brown on the monitor at the Gnomon booth. We Hear and Obey John Brown!
My proudest moment... my face and design on the screen at the Gnomon booth!
I also had some artwork on the Gnomon demo reel!
At the end of the day I met up with the Wiley folks for dinner. This image is courtesy of Lee Lanier's blog on highend. I git to hang out with George Maestri, author of the ubiquitous "Digital Character Animation" books.
It was a good trip in spite of the stomach aches, nasty food, long lines, an inescapable party on the Midway, and enough marketing BS to keep me nauseous until next year. My apologies to my friend Kamal, who came with me on the drive. I didn't post any images of you since none came out. They were all dark or really unflattering .
Yup, got to meet David Goodsell, famous molecular artist and author of the "Molecule of the Month" feature on the RSCB site.
some of his analog artwork:
Along with David I met Graham Johnson, Scientific Illustrator and animator extrodinaire. I also hung out with 2005 Maya Master (back when it meant something!) and famous molecular animator Drew Berry. I met Eddy Xuan, who evaded my camera completely. He gave a Maya Master Class(which I missed) on Scientific Visualization. I got to see some of his reel, amazing stuff! And of course I enjoyed the company of the dynamic duo of Harvard molecular animation Gael McGill and Janet Isawa.
Gael and Graham at the Autodesk party (red alert apparently):
From left to right: Graham, Me, Drew, and Janet. Drew was enjoying the pizza-like foam rubber they served at the party (Gael took the picture to avoid appearing on this blog again):
Back to the lab...
The most exciting aspect of the lab was the 3D printer which created Gypsum and plastic models of molecular structures. I actually got to break a nucleosome (sorry guys!). Here are some images....
here is themachine that maked the models, you have to dig them out of the sand with archeologist's tools.
OK, then it was back to SIGGRAPH for the Orwellian Autodesk user group and the Autodesk party aboard the USS Midway. There were fireworks...
and Go-Go Girls:
and there was Ban, who enjoyed the ambience...
Tuesday was all about the exhibit floor. Check out John Brown on the monitor at the Gnomon booth. We Hear and Obey John Brown!
My proudest moment... my face and design on the screen at the Gnomon booth!
I also had some artwork on the Gnomon demo reel!
At the end of the day I met up with the Wiley folks for dinner. This image is courtesy of Lee Lanier's blog on highend. I git to hang out with George Maestri, author of the ubiquitous "Digital Character Animation" books.
It was a good trip in spite of the stomach aches, nasty food, long lines, an inescapable party on the Midway, and enough marketing BS to keep me nauseous until next year. My apologies to my friend Kamal, who came with me on the drive. I didn't post any images of you since none came out. They were all dark or really unflattering .
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