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3 animated short films shown at SIGGRAPH's Electronic Theater last month advance the state of the art not in terms of "Is it real or is it CG?" realism, but in creating characters who, with their movements and expressions, engage audiences in some of the same ways a human actor might. "Eternal Gaze," "Chainsmoker," and "Plumber" each feature a lone protagonist who engages audiences not with beauty, charm, or flowing photorealistic hair, but with the earnestness with which he or she tackles a problem. Their difficulties range from the mystical (the artist in Sam Chen's "Eternal Gaze" grapples with madness, mortality, and the creative process, all in the space of 16 ...