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VICON ANNOUNCES GUEST DEMO SLATE AT SIGGRAPH 2007
Engaging Demonstrations from ILM, Pendulum Studios, Activision, Mova, Method Studios and Softimage Throughout Conference
Los Angeles, CA (July 25, 2007)—VICON, developer of Academy Award®-winning motion capture systems, will be offering an exciting panel of guest presenters at SIGGRAPH 2007. VICON will be exhibiting at SIGGRAPH in Booth #902, August 7-9, at the San Diego Convention Center and will feature guest mo-cap demonstrations from ILM, Pendulum Studios, Mova, Method Studios, Softimage and Activision. In addition to the excitement on the show floor, VICON will be co-hosting the Visual FXtasy party along with Pendulum Studios and Softimage on the evening of Wednesday, August 8th at San Diego’s House of Blues.
Guest demos artists will include: Mike Sanders from Industrial Light and Magic, Mike Jantz from Activision, Rob Taylor and Mike McCormick from Studio Pendulum, Gil Baron from Method Studios, Greg LaSalle from Mova and Mark Schoennagel from Softimage. Representatives from VICON and VICON House of Moves will also be on the stand to showcase real time pre-visualization, full body performance capture and the latest motion capture workflow techniques and solutions.
Complete show demo schedule:
| Time | Tuesday, Aug 7 | Wednesday, Aug 8 | Thursday, Aug 9 |
9:30 |
Mo-cap Workflow |
Mo-cap Workflow |
Mo-cap Workflow |
10:00 |
Real Time Performance |
Real Time Performance |
Gil Baron, Method Studios |
10:30 |
Real Time Previsualization |
Real Time Previsualization |
Real Time Previsualization |
11:00 |
Rob Taylor & Mike McCormick, Pendulum Studio |
Rob Taylor & Mike McCormick, Pendulum Studio |
House of Moves Demo |
11:30 |
Full Performance Capture |
Full Performance Capture |
Full Performance Capture |
12:00 |
Real Time Performance |
Mark Schoennagel, Softimage |
Mark Schoennagel, Softimage |
12:30 |
Solving to Final Package |
Solving to Final Package |
Solving to Final Package |
1:00 |
Mo-Cap Pipeline |
Mo-Cap Pipeline |
Mo-Cap Pipeline |
1:30 |
Greg LaSalle, Mova |
Mike Jantz, Activision |
House of Moves Demo |
2:00 |
House of Moves Demo |
House of Moves Demo |
Real Time Previsualization |
2:30 |
Real-Time Perfromance |
Real-Time Perfromance |
Full Performance Capture |
3:00 |
Real Time Previsualization |
Real Time Previsualization |
Solving to Final Package |
3:30 |
Real Time Performance |
Mike Sanders, ILM |
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4:00 |
Full Performance Capture |
Full Performance Capture |
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4:30 |
Solving to Final Package |
Solving to Final Package |
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5:00 |
Mo-Cap Pipeline |
Greg LaSalle, Mova |
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5:30 |
House of Moves Demo |
House of Moves Demo |
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6:00 |
Blade Software |
Blade Software |
The demo schedule is subject to change, please visit the VICON booth at SIGGRAPH for the latest updates.
About VICON
Academy Award®-winning VICON is the world’s largest supplier of precision motion tracking systems, serving customers and CG animation applications in film, visual effects, computer games, and broadcast television, as well as engineering and life science industries. VICON operates in four offices worldwide, including its Los Angeles-based Entertainment headquarters, a 26,000 square-foot facility equipped with three performance capture stages for VICON’s service company House of Moves as well as 125 VICON MX40 cameras.
VICON is the largest holding of OMG (Oxford Metrics Group - LSE: OMG), plc., a group of technology companies that produces image understanding solutions for the entertainment, defense, life science and engineering markets. Other holdings include Emmy Award®-winning 2d3 and newly founded Geospatial Vision Ltd.
VICON’s and OMG’s global clients include: life science leaders University of Pennsylvania, the VA Hospitals, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Titleist Golf, National Pitching Association; engineering industry leaders Ford, BMW, Airbus, Lockheed, Pratt-Whitney, NASA, Caterpillar, International Truck, and Toyota; and entertainment companies Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Computer Entertainment, Industrial Light and Magic, Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, Vivendi, Electronic Arts, Square Enix and many others. For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omg3d.com, www.vicon.com, or www.2d3.com.
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