From: "Ivan Herman" To: Subject: Call for Participation: Non Photorealistic Animation and Rendering Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:17:15 +0100 Call for Participation: Non Photorealistic Animation and Rendering We invite you to participate in NPAR 2000 The First International Symposium on Non Photorealistic Animation and Rendering June 5-7, 2000 Annecy, France Sponsored by the International Animated Film Centre In Cooperation with ACM/SIGGRAPH and Eurographics See the official Web page at http://www.annecy.org/NPAR NPAR 2000 is the first international symposium dedicated to non-photorealistic animation and rendering, including cartoon animation systems and techniques. Held in conjunction with the International Animated Film Festival of Annecy, France, the symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, showcase cutting-edge research in non-photorealistic animation and rendering systems and techniques, and present examples of these techniques in original computer-animated films. (All registrants will also receive a pass to the International Animated Film Festival, which will be held during the same week, June 5-10.) The closing talk will be presented by John Lasseter from Pixar, who pioneered 3D animation as an expressive and entertaining art form. We advise you to register to the conference and book your hotel as soon as possible. The number of participants to the symposium is limited to 200 and hotel rooms are quickly reserved for more than 5000 attendees to the Animated Film Festival! * Advance Program Monday, June 5 9:30 am Opening Talk 11:00 am Papers Session 1: Real-Time Animation Painterly Rendering for Video and Interaction Aaron Hertzmann and Ken Perlin Media Research Laboratory Department of Computer Science New York University, USA. Stylized Rendering Techniques for Scalable Real-Time 3D Animation Adam Lake, Carl Marshall, Mark Harris and Marc Blackstein Intel Architecture Labs & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Interactive Dynamic Abstraction Scott Sona Snibbe and Golan Levin Interval Research Corporation & MIT Media Laboratory, USA. 2:00 pm Papers Session 2: Silhouettes and Line Drawings Artistic Silhouettes: A Hybrid Approach J.D. Northrup and Lee Markosian Brown University, USA. The edge buffer: A data structure for easy silhouette rendering John W. Buchanan and Mario C. Sousa Electronic Arts & University of Alberta, Canada. Line Direction Matters: An Argument for the Use of Principal Directions in 3D Line Drawings Ahna Girshick, Victoria Interrante, Steven Haker and Todd Lemoine Nissan Cambridge Basic Research & University of Minnesota & LambSoft, USA. 4:00 pm Poster Session 1 Tuesday, June 6 9:00 am Papers Session 3: Artistic Rendering An Algorithm for Automatic Painterly Rendering based on Local Source Image Approximation Michio Shiraishi and Yasushi Yamaguchi University of Tokyo, Japan. Art-based Rendering with Continuous Levels of Detail Lee Markosian, Barbara J. Meier, Michael A. Kowalski, Loring S. Holden, J.D. Northrup and John F. Hughes Brown University, USA. Interactive Artistic Rendering Matthew Kaplan, Bruce Gooch and Elaine Cohen Department of Computer Science University of Utah, USA. 11:00 am Papers Session 4: Systems Observer dependent deformations in illustration D. Martin, S. Garcia and J. C. Torres Universidad de Granada, Spain. Harold: A World Made of Drawings Jonathan M. Cohen and John F. Hughes and Robert C. Zeleznik Brown University, USA. 2:00 pm Papers Session 5: Facial Animation Animated CharToon Faces Zsofia Ruttkay Han Noot Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Performance-Driven Hand-Drawn Animation Ian Buck, Adam Finkelstein, Charles Jacobs, Allison Klein, David H. Salesin, Jashua Seims, Richard Szeliski, Kentaro Toyama Princeton University & University of Washington & Microsoft Research, USA. 3:00 pm Panel: Teaching Non-Photorealistic Computer Graphics to Computer Scientists Thomas Strothotte Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg, DE. 4:00 pm Poster Session 2 7:00 pm Special Dinner Wednesday, June 7 9:00 am Animation Session 11:00 am Closing Talk by John Lasseter, Pixar * Registration Fill the registration at http://www.annecy.org/NPAR ** Prices Category Before 04/00 After 04/00 Non ACM or Eurographics member 320 Euro or US $ 400 Euro or US $ ACM or Eurographics member 250 Euro or US $ 320 Euro or US $ Student 120 Euro or US $ 200 Euro or US $ Extra dinner* 31 Euro or US $ 31 Euro or US $ * The NPAR registration also includes a special diner (200 people maximum), tuesday night. One extra ticket can be purchased for an accompanying person. The registration is strictly personal and non-transferable. It gives free access to the NPAR Symposium, the Festival screenings and exhibitions, the conferences, and, at the market, to: the Mifa Institutional area, the Mifa Creative Focus area, the New Technologies area and film library screening booths. The Symposium proceedings including a CD-ROM, the official Festival catalogue (l'Officiel), and all other information published in connection with the Festival will also be given to you with your badge. * Hotels, local accommodations and traveling to Annecy Hotels can be reserved through the Annecy hotel form, downloadable at http://www.annecy.org/resahotel.pdf International airports access to Annecy: Geneva airport to Annecy: 45 minutes Lyon airport to Annecy: 1h30 Paris Charles de Gaulle or Orly airport to Annecy: 5h (with 4h train journey) * The setting The conference will be held in Annecy, France, during the International Animated Film Festival. Annecy is located in the French Alps, 45 minutes from the Geneva International Airport and 4 hours from Paris by TGV. Annecy is a beautiful town on the Lac d'Annecy, with sweeping views across the lake of the majestic French Alps. The Old Town is filled with a labyrinth of small windy streets, a myriad of bridges over canals that wind through the town, beautiful medieval buildings, and lots of "chocolatiers" and "patisseries"! Each year, Annecy organizes the International Animation Film Festival in which thousands of professional animators and deciders gather to share their impressions during the screenings of the best animated productions of the year, which take place all day long in several theatres throughout the town and a open air giant screen. Participants to NPAR 2000 will receive free access to the festival. * Program committee ** Conference co-chairs Jean-Daniel Fekete =C9cole des Mines de Nantes, France Jean-Daniel.Fekete@emn.fr David Salesin Microsoft Research, USA University of Washington, USA salesin@cs.washington.edu Program Committee Ammar AttouiUniversity of Savoie, FR Edwin CatmullPixar, USA Cassidy CurtisPacific Data Images, USA Michel GangnetMicrosoft, UK Henri GouraudGlobeID software, FR John F. HughesBrown University, USA Peter LitwinowiczRE:Vision Effects, Inc., USA Barbara J. MeierBrown University, USA Victor OstromoukhovMIT, USA John W PattersonUniversity of Glasgow, UK Claude PuechUnivestit=E9 de Grenoble, FR Bill ReevesPixar, USA Susan ThayerPacific Data Images, USA Lance WilliamsDisney Feature Animation, USA Phil WillisUniversity of Bath, UK Animation Chair Chris WedgeBlue Sky Studios, USA Organization Committee Tiziana Loschi CICA