OCT 2014 ISSUE Motion in Games Conference Comes to LA Top Oct Events VIEW (Italy), SPARK (Vancouver)  and DC EXPO (Japan) Motion is a critical component of modern gaming, which makes it a subject of intense interest for game developers and researchers from the wide variety of fields that study or employ games. On November 6, the 7th International ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games will commence in Los Angeles -- the first year the conference will be hosted in the United States. Read more. Chapter Events New York City Rio 2 Panel Creating the Amazon in "Rio 2" Oct 6 Paris 2015 Executive Committee Election Slate BYOA Bring Your Own Animation Oct 9 San Diego Gameful Designs "Gameful design" panel Oct 15 The slate of candidates for the 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee elections are as follows:  1. Treasurer: Tom Appolloni, Dave Shreiner 2. Director at Large (two positions): Jessica Hodgins, Paul Strauss, Sebastian Sylwan, Jesse Barker Visit the ACM SIGGRAPH elections page to learn more about the elections process. Washington DC Virtual Reality Takes Geology to a New Level Reel Night Demo reel review and networking night Oct 16 Built using a Microsoft Kinect 3D camera, a projector, and two freely distributed VR applications, the AR Sandbox transforms a box of sand into a water-filled landscape that responds to changes in topography with accurate fluid dynamics. Find out how it was made -- and how you can build one yourself. Los Angeles Electronic Theater Computer Animation Festival showing Oct 21 Other Events Turin, Italy VIEW 2014 15th International CG Conference in Italy Oct 13-17 Honolulu Joe Letteri Interview SUI 2014 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction Oct 4-5 UIST 2014 ACM Symposium on User Interface Software Oct 5-8 ACM Computers in Entertainment sat down with award-winning visual effects artist Joe Letteri to talk about motion capture, digital apes and the future of visual effects. An excerpt from the interview:  "Working with actors gives you the spontaneity, the choices in the moment, the drama, the interaction, all of the things that great actors bring to their craft. We do have to supplement that with what the animators can also bring to the character, because we are not creating human characters, it’s not a 1-to-1 translation." Read the full interview. Vancouver Nominations Accepted for 2015 Awards SPARK CG Animation Festival Oct 22-26 Tokyo DC EXPO Digital Content Expo Oct 23-26 ACM SIGGRAPH presents five awards at the annual SIGGRAPH conference to recognize exceptional achievements in computer graphics and interactive techniques. ACM SIGGRAPH members are now invited to submit nominations for the 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH awards. Images: Rio 2 Copyright 20th Century Fox, Gaming image by Serjik Ahkhundov / Dollar Photo Club, AR Sandbox by Julie Silverman.