2012 Computer Art alumni have great success at MetroCAF 2012!

This year, the 10th edition of the NYC ACM SIGGRAPH MetroCAF, TWELVE out of the total 26 films selected for the festival were by 2012 BFA Computer Art alumni, and TWO of them received Special Recognition Jury Awards. The following films screened at FIT's Haft Auditorium this past Friday, September 28:

Eternity by Byung Hoon Han
Karma by Da Suel Kim & Yun Ah Oh
Distance by Sang Joon Kim
Still I Breathe by Sang Ho Lee & Zack Lydon
Agape by Ha Na Gill
Spacebunnies! by John Youlen Sung
Alka by Ieva Sauciunaite
Virtus Vitae by Lazslo Ujvari
Encounter by See Hun Jeon
Totem by John Paul Lavin
Brother by Sari Rodrig
Ramus by Chris DeVito & Danica Parry

A total of four Special Recognition Jury Awards were given this year and two of them were awarded to our alumni:

Still I Breathe by Sang Ho Lee & Zack Lydon
Ramus by Chris DeVito & Danica Parry

Congratulations to our alumni whose films were accepted to this year' s MetroCAF s award winners!!

To learn more about MetroCAF and for the official awards announcement, follow this link.

And here are some pictures of our alumni who attended the event:

Ieva Sauciunaite, left (creator of Alka), with her guy, right

John Youlen Sung, left (creator of Spacebunnies!), and John Paul Lavin Jr., right (creator of Totem)

Sari Rodrig, right (creator of Brother), who brought a prospective Computer Art student!

MetroCAF 2012 Trailer

In anticipation of this Friday's MetroCAF Screening, here is a trailer of the accepted films:

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There may be more films accepted this year, but a total of TEN 2012 Computer Art films are featured in this trailer:

Totem by John Paul Lavin
Spacebunnies! by John Youlen Sung
Eternity by Byung Hoon Han
Brother by Sari Rodrig
Virtus Vitae by Laszlo L. Ujvari
Encounter by See Hun Jeon
Ramus by Chris Devito & Danica Parry
Still I Breathe by Sang Ho Lee & Zack Lydon
Agape by Ha Na Gill
Distance by Sang Joon Kim

Join us at the screening to congratulate and celebrate all of our accepted alumni!

2012 Computer Art Alumni Accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festival

The film Ramus by 2012 Computer Art alumni Chris DeVito and Danica Parry has been accepted at this year's SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festival! Ramus will be screened as part of the Electronic Theatre program, a two-hour overview of the best animation, visual effects, and scientific visualizations produced in the last year.

The film Eternity by 2012 alumnus Byung Hoon Han has been accepted as well. His film will screen as part of the Animation Theater, a program of all-day shows featuring the outstanding works selected by the Computer Animation Festival jury.

This is the 5th ACM SIGGRAPH Conference in Asia and will take place November 28 through December 1 in Singapore. For more details about the conference and the screening, please follow this link.

MetroCAF 2012 Screening THIS FRIDAY!

This Friday is the MetroCAF Screening! As many of you know, we have lots of success at this competition every year and it's a great opportunity to see and reconnect with our alumni.

Here are the details:

MetroCAF 2012 Screening
Friday, September 28, 7:00pm
FIT Haft Auditorium
W. 27th Street between 7th and 8th Aves

The Special Jury Recognition Awards will be announced at the screening. For more details, please visit their website www.metrocaf.org

Come celebrate the success of the class of 2012 - we hope to see you there!

MetroCAF 2012 Screening Details Announced!

NYC ACM SIGGRAPH's MetroCAF will be celebrating it's tenth edition this year with a screening on Friday, September 28th, at 7:00pm at FIT's Haft Auditorium. MetroCAF is an annual computer animation festival that features pieces by students from NYC-area schools. This year 26 pieces will be featured at the screening and our students have had great success every year. Additionally, the jury selects four films to be recognized for outstanding achievement - these awards will be announced the night of the screening. So come out and support SVA Computer Art. We look forward to seeing you there!

MetroCAF 2012
Friday, September 28th, 7:00pm
FIT's Haft Auditorium
W. 27th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues

For more information, visit their website: http://www.metrocaf.org

SVA Computer Art Alumni and Students accepted at 2012 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival

This year our alumni and current students have had great success at SIGGRAPH's Computer Animation Festival. The following films have been accepted and will screen at the SIGGRAPH conference this August in Los Angeles - the program in which the film will screen has been listed after each title:

2011 Alumni:

Aquatic Bloom by Susie Hong & Bokyeong Kim (Daytime Selects)

Subject Code Q80-203 by Yunsung Cho (Daytime Selects)

2012 Alumni:

Brother by Sari Rodrig (Daytime Selects)

Karma by Da Suel Kim & Yun Ah Oh (Daytime Selects)

VOID by Arsen Arzumanyan (Daytime Selects)

Ramus by Chris DeVito & Danica Perry (Electronic Theater)

Encounter by See Hun Jeon (Daytime Selects)

Class of 2013:

Getaway by Eric Cunha, Ryan Chong, Seung Sung, Debbie Lim, Shane Simpson, Kolina Hang & Bryan Cha (Daytime Selects)

Congratulations to all our current and former students on this accomplishment! For more details about the festival, the SIGGRAPH Conference, and the screenings for these films, here are some links:

SIGGRAPH 2012 Los Angeles - http://s2012.siggraph.org/

Computer Animation Festival - http://siggraph.org/computer-animation-festival

Daytime Selects - http://siggraph.org/daytime-selects/

Electronic Theater - http://siggraph.org/electronic-theater

2011 Alumni Featured on SIGGRAPH Asia Website

SIGGRAPH Asia has updated their website with information regarding the films accepted this year to the Computer Animation Festival, including Rabbitkadabra and The Fear. 

You can find the details in the Animation Theatre section here: www.siggraph.org/asia2011/animation-theater

Outstanding Success by 2011 Alumni at NYC ACM SIGGRAPH MetroCAF!

The ninth edition of MetroCAF featured TEN films by 2011 Computer Art alumni! MetroCAF is the annual NYC Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival organized by the New York CIty chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH. 

The following films were screened at the FIT Haft Auditorium on September 15, 2011:

Witch October by Jason Bakutis

Toast by Henry Jean

Bounty + Hunter by Eugene Chu

Rabbitkadabra by Michelle Czajkowski, David Chen, Krzysztof Fus, & Naomi Chen

Package Frank by Carl Fong & Chang Shuen Lee

Piano Man by Selim Yang

King Killian by James McKenzie

Be Mine Bovine by Alexandra D'Amore

The Fear by Sung In Sohn

Aquatic Bloom by Susie Hong & Bokyeong Kim

This year a total of five Special Recognition Jury Awards were given and THREE of them went to projects from BFA Computer Art: 

King Killian by James McKenzie

Package Frank by Carl Fong & Chang Shuen Lee

Rabbitkadabra by Michelle Czajkowski, David Chen, Krzysztof Fus, & Naomi Chen

Congratulations to our alumni whose films were accepted and to this years' award winners!! 

For more information about MetroCAF, please visit the website: http://www.metrocaf.org/. For more information about NYC ACM SIGGRAPH, please visit this website: http://nyc.siggraph.org/

2011 Alumni Films Accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia

Two films by SVA Computer Art alumni have been accepted at this year's SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festival in Hong Kong: Rabbitkadabra by Michelle Czjakowski, Kryzsztof Fus, David Chen and Naomi Chen, and The Fear by Sung In Sohn. More information will be available very soon, but to learn more about this event, please visit their website, http://www.siggraph.org/asia2011.

You can view Michelle Czjakowski, Kryzsztof Fus, David Chen and Naomi Chen's collaborative thesis, Rabbitkadabra, here.

You can view Sung In Sohn's thesis, Fear, here.

2010 Alumni accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia - December 15-18, 2010

Two films by 2010 alumni have been accepted at this year's SIGGRAPH Asia Computer Animation Festival in Seoul, South Korea. Luciernaga by Jesse Flores & Jessenia Nauta, and Balloon by Eric Xu will be screening during the exhibition. The festival features a wide spectrum of inspiring computer-generated animation and visual effects. For more information, visit their website, www.siggraph.org/asia2010

2009 Alumnus accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia 2009

At the 2nd ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition in Asia, Oneironaut by Erica Kobren will screen for the world's leading experts on computer graphics and interactive techniques in the city of Yokohama, Japan. This international festival of art, animation, and tomorrow's technologies is associated with the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival held in New Orleans this past August where two other alumni were accepted as well. For more information on this event visit the SIGGRAPH Asia website http://www.siggraph.org/asia2009/.

2008 Alumni participate at SIGGRAPH 2009, New Orleans

The SIGGRAPH conference and exhibition is a five-day interdisciplinary educational experience that includes a large variety of presentations and installations from the newest technology and software to the most innovative digital art and film. SIGGRAPH also hosts a Computer Animation Festival, celebrating the some of the most innovative and stimulating of computer-generated animated films. This year two of our 2008 thesis films will be among those shown this August in New Orleans: Lilium Urbanus by Anca Risca & Joji Tsuruga, and Daydreamer by Roland Womack.

For more information about SIGGRAPH and this festival, please visit http://www.siggraph.org.