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Students’ video to be seen at SIGGRAPH BOWLING GREEN, O.—Five Bowling Green State University students will see their work right along with that of the pros at the
2005 Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Technologies (SIGGRAPH) conference July 31-Aug. 4 in Los Angeles.
The annual event is expected to attract 45,000 visitors from more than 30 countries. They will be coming to see what’s new
in the field, according to Bonnie Mitchell, an associate professor and chair of BGSU’s digital arts department. Mitchell has
been involved with SIGGRAPH since 1990.
Because of Bowling Green’s long association with the conference and its reputation for producing quality work, Donna Cox of
the National Center for Applications of Supercomputing and chair of this year’s Emerging Technologies (ETech) portion of the
conference, invited Mitchell’s students to produce the ETech promotional video.
The BGSU students—two from the School of Art, two from the College of Musical Arts and a narrator from the Department of Theatre
and Film—produced the video showcase for Emerging Technologies. The video features innovations in robotics, virtual reality,
human-computer interfaces, creative projection systems and more.
Junior Joshua Fry of Cuyahoga Falls and senior Patrick McPeck of Dayton, both digital arts majors, created the animation.
Graduate student Seann Flynn of North Olmsted and senior Sean Hagerty of Kettering, both music students, handled the sound.
Megan Grandstaff of Cleves, a theatre major, provided the voice-over.
The video is being distributed internationally to promote the conference and is included in the SIGGRAPH Video Review, perhaps
the most comprehensive historical collection of video graphics available, according to Mitchell.
The finished piece was also was selected for inclusion in the conference’s Electronic Theater. The Electronic Theater features
the year’s best animation from around the world, in such areas as art, scientific visualization and Hollywood special effects.
“It’s the cream of the crop, and for our students’ piece to be chosen is very impressive,” said Mitchell.
For the students, it was an opportunity to participate in a real-world project. “We are really breaking down the boundaries
by having students from three different departments working together on a single project,” Mitchell said. “It couldn’t have
been done without the synergy that happens between these students.”
(Posted July 14, 2005 )
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