Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation

This year marks the tenth annual ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA). SCA quickly established itself as the premier forum dedicated to innovations in the software and technology of computer animation and it has built on this reputation over the years. Looking back over the last decade, many of the most important papers in computer animation---those that inspired a flood of followup work or have become standard animation techniques---have been showcased at SCA. This conference has also become a critical tool for building and invigorating the computer animation community, bringing together researchers from around the world, both academic and industrial, in an intimate setting to discuss the state-of-the-art as well as future directions. SCA 2011 was held in beautiful Vancouver, Canada, August 5--7 2011, immediately prior to ACM SIGGRAPH 2011. The Point Grey campus of the University of British Columbia provided an intimate location, highly affordable accommodations, and a spectacular banquet venue at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. These proceedings contain the 30 papers presented at SCA 2011, selected from 77 submissions. These highquality papers span the spectrum of computer animation topics, including motion capture, motion editing, facial animation, crowd animation, character skinning, deformable bodies, and fluid simulation. Fluid simulation was particularly popular this year, representing more than a third of the conference, and including sessions on mathematical formulation, procedural modeling and control, and particle-based methods. The editors are delighted with the quality of the submissions, even if this made the final selection quite challenging. Our task was made possible only by the hard work of our 71 Program Committee members, who together ensured that each full-paper submission received four high-quality reviews, followed by a thorough week-long online discussion. We are deeply grateful to the program committee for working so diligently, especially given our extremely tight reviewing schedule. Beyond attracting archival-quality papers, SCA included a posters track providing a forum where researchers can interact, share preliminary results and half-baked ideas, and debate new directions. These proceedings also contain the abstracts of the 13 posters presented at SCA 2011. Some of the posters came from submissions that were not selected for the papers program but that were recommended as posters. Others were selected through a separate review process. This year we also introduced presentations to SCA. While they do not appear in these proceedings, we invited the presentation of recently published animation work in other journals or other conferences that would also interest the majority of SCA attendees. Only one paper was presented under this track due to the limited number of talk slots allowed by a single track conference. However, there clearly is a demand for this type of presentation venue.

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