SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009
the 2nd SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition in ASIA
16-19 December 2009
Pacifico Yokohama / Yokohama Japan

[Sketches]

Session: Production Session 1: Pipeline
Title:Rich Background for Cel Animation　〈Program〉
Presented in English
Thursday, 17 December | 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Pacifico Yokohama Room 303/304
Presenters: Yosuke Katsura, Ken Anjyo (OLM Digital, Inc.)

Session: Effects & Simulation
Title:Controlling Explosion Simulation　〈Program〉
Presented in English
Friday, 18 December | 11:00 AM - 12:45 AM | Pacifico Yokohama Room 501
Presenters: Yoshinori Dobashi, Shuhei Sato, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (Hokkaido University), Ken Anjyo (OLM Digital, Inc.)

Session: Production Session 2: Research & Technique
Title:Identifying Salient Points　〈Program〉
Presented in English
Saturday, 19 December | 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Pacifico Yokohama Level 5 - Auditorium
Presenters: J.P. Lewis (Weta Digital), Ken Anjyo (OLM Digital, Inc.)

Session: Japanese Session 3: Effects Okonomiyaki
Title:Controlling Explosion Simulation　〈Program〉
Presented in Japanese
Saturday, 19 December | 4:15 PM - 6:30 PM | Pacifico Yokohama Room 416/417
Presenters: Yoshinori Dobashi, Shuhei Sato, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (Hokkaido University), Ken Anjyo (OLM Digital, Inc.)

Title:Rich Background for Cel Animation　〈Program〉
Presented in Japanese
Saturday, 19 December | 4:15 PM - 6:30 PM | Pacifico Yokohama Room 416/417
Presenters: Yosuke Katsura, Ken Anjyo (OLM Digital, Inc.)

[Poster]

Session: Production
Title:Asset-Management System for Digital Production Workflow　〈Program〉
Presented in English
Thursday, 17 - Saturday 19 December
Thursday, 17 December 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (Presentation) | Pacifico Yokohama Level 3 - Lounge
Presenters: Tatsuo Yotsukura, Miki Kinoshita, Satoru Yamagishi, Kazuyuki Ishihara, Yoshinori Moriizumi (OLM Digital, Inc.)

[Computer Animation Festival -Electronic Theater-]

Title:OLM Digital Works 2009　〈Program〉
Thursday, 17 December 19:00 - 21:00
Friday, 18 December 19:00 - 21:00
Saturday, 19 December 16:15 - 18:15, 19:00 - 21:00
Pacifico Yokohama Level 1, Main Hall

“OLM Digital Works 2009” is a showcase of OLM Digital creations, featuring “Crowd”, “Explosion” and “Water” from anime, live action movies and TV series. It demonstrates OLM Digital research and achievements in cutting edge CGI techniques.

　"Pokémon: Arceus Chōkoku no Jikū e" (2009, Kunihiko Yuyama, Film)
　"Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior" (2008, Kunihiko Yuyama, Film)
　"YATTERMAN" (2009, Takashi Miike, Film)
　"Phone Braver 7" (2008-9, Takashi Miike et. al, TV series)
　"Tenchijin" (2009, Drama)
　"Drive Soul" (2009, Short Film)
　"One Pair" (2008, Kunihiko Yuyama, Short Film)
　"KaiKai & KiKi" (2009, Takashi Murakami, Short Film)

[Course]

Title:Crowd Animation: Tools, Techniques, and Production Examples　〈Program〉
Presented in English
Friday, 18 December | 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Pacifico Yokohama Room 502
Presenters: Craig "Xray" Halpern　(ImageMovers Digital), Ken Anjyo (OLM Digital, Inc.), Mihai Cioroba (Digital Frontier Inc.), Paul Kanyuk (Pixar Animation Studios), Stephen Regelous (Massive Software), Takashi Yoshida (Digital Frontier Inc.), Marc Salvati (OLM Digital, Inc.)

Title:Introduction to Using RenderMan　〈Program〉
Presented in English
Thursday, 17 December | 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM | Vantan Design Institute Yokohama Campus
Presenters: Malcolm Kesson (Savannah College of Art and Design), Yosuke Katsura (OLM Digital, Inc.)

CEDEC 2009 (CESA Developers Conference 2009) (2009.9.1-3)

- Title: "Gaming technology and SIGGRAPH ASIA" Ken Anjyo

- Date: 2009. 9. 3 (Thu) 13:30-14:30
- Place: PACIFICO YOKOHAMA Conference Center (Minatomirai, Nishi-Ku, Yokohama) [MAP]

The Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications [Pacific Graphics 2008] (2008.10.8 -10)

- Title: "Exploring Directability" Ken Anjyo

- Date: 2008. 10. 8 (Thu)　9:20－10:00
- Place: SANJO Conference Hall [MAP]

We have an exciting lineup of presentations that you won’t want to miss. Start marking your calendar today !

SIGGRAPH2008
the 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
11-15 August 2008
Los Angeles Convention Center, LA, California, USA

Computer Animation Festival

Title: One Pair
Competition Screening 4 Wednesday, 13 August 5:45 - 7:45 pm
Competition Screening 7 Friday, 15 August 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Nokia Theatre
The Audience Prize vote number : CAF08 36093

© 2008, OLM, Inc. All rights reserved.

Talk

Title: Extracting Higher-Level Information From Facial Mocap
J.P. Lewis (Weta Digital), Ken Anjyo (OLM Digital)

Raw motion-capture data is valuable information, but it is often in a form that is difficult to use. More work needs to be done on extraction of usable and "semantic" representations from raw motion-capture data. This session presents several examples of mathematical operations on mocap that extract higher-level information, including automatic definitions of regions of influence, identification of salient points, and maps of the importance of various points on the face for communicating emotion and speech.

Session: Smile for the Camera
Monday, 11 August 3:45 pm - 5:30 pm
502 A

Job Fair:

CG ARTIST

• Animator(Experience in Maya required)
• Lighting Artist(Maya)
• Compositing Artist(After Effects, Combustion, Flame, shake, nuke)

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

• Production Assistant for CG Projects ( CG production knowledge and/or experience preferable. )

SOFTWARE TD

• Write custom software for CG productions

CG RESEARCHER

• Research solutions to tomorrow’s CG production needs

Tuesday, 12 August 10 am - 4 pm
Wednesday, 13 August 10 am - 4 pm
Thursday, 14 August 10 am - 1 pm
Hall K (adjacent to Exhibition) Booth 35

Booth Presentation:

A presentation of the in-house feather system used in our short film "One Pair" will be held in the Pixar booth in the exhibition hall. The booth has a theatre which seats approximately 100 people.

Title:RenderMan in Our Studios: "One pair", "Pokémon" and beyond
Youske Katsura (OLM Digital), Bernard Edlington (Nexus International LLC)

Japanese: Tuesday, 12 August 1 pm - 1:30 pm
English: Wednesday, 13 August 1 pm - 1:30 pm

・The 22nd Digital Contents Grand Prix Technical Achievement Award:

"LoCoStySh (= Locally Controllable Stylized Shading)"

　　OLM Digital, Inc. (Ken Anjyo, Yosuke Katsura, William Baxter)
　　Univ. of Tokyo (Hideki Todo, Takeo Igarashi)

by DCAJ (Digital Content Association of Japan.)

　　

Depending upon skills of applicant, duties range from creating software plugins and artist tools to designing and deploying network server and renderfarm solutions.
Contact us:
Software utilized: C++, Python, Windows, Linux, Maya, Renderman
Spoken language(s): Japanese / English

Recent / Ongoing Projects
Animé: Pokémon, Monkey Turn, Dobutsu-no-mori, Tamagocchi
Live Action: Crows Zero, Sukiyaki Western Django, The Great Yokai War, Imprint

SIGGRAPH2007
the 34th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

5-9 August 2007
San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA


Paper:
Monday, 6 August 3:45 - 5:30 pm, Room 6AB & CF

Session: Shape Depiction and Stylization
Title: "Locally Controllable Stylized Shading"
Hideki Todo, Ken-ichi Anjyo, William Baxter, Takeo Igarashi
A set of simple stylized shading algorithms that allow the user to freely add localized light and shade in a manner that is consistent with conventional lighting techniques.

Sketch:
Thursday, 9 August 1:45 - 3:30 pm, Room 4

Session: Looking Good
Title: "Anime Perspective"
Yosuke Katsura, Ken Anjyo
Two tools for creating images with anime perspective, a surreal view used in traditional animations: Anime-Pers deformer and Anime-Lens shader.

Poster:
place: Sails Pavilion
[Poster Presentations]
Monday, 6 August 12:15 - 1:15 pm
Wednesday, 8 August 12:15 - 1:15 pm
[Poster]
Sunday, 5 August 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Monday, 6 August 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, 7 August 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Wednesday, 8 August 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Thursday, 9 August 8:30 am - noon

Category: F14(Animation)
Title: "Directable Crowd Animation"
Wataru Ishihara (NHK), Ken Anjyo