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SIGGRAPH Animation Theaters, Part 1.(Portfolio)(Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)(SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival)(Brief article)

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The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival; since 1999, numerous works from the festival's Electronic Theater and Animation Theaters have been nominated for, or have received, a Best Animated Short Oscar. After looking at the 2007 festival selections, that tradition has a good chance of going strong for at least another year.

Last month's Portfolio offered a snapshot of the more general-interest Electronic Theater; this month it provides a glimpse at the more specific content from the Animation Theaters. According to the festival chair, Paul Debevec of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, the animations in this venue are illustrative of a more specific field of interest. To this end, all the disciplines are represented in one of several themed showings.

"Both the ...

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