This year the Fort Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter hosts
a number of honorable speakers at the following events:

December 3rd 6:00 P.M.:

SIGGRAPH AND IGDA proudly present 3 December by Alias
6:00 p.m. at FAU's CEC

November 5th 1:00 P.M.:

SIGGRAPH AND IGDA proudly present TODD SHIFFLET
1:00 p.m. at Cinema Paradiso

Where: Cinema Paradiso, located at 503 SE 6th Street in Fort Lauderdale. For more information, call 954-760-9898, ext. 106

Excerpt:

Preparing For Careers In Feature Film Production/ Digital Effects with
Todd Shifflett.

Join Todd Shifflett of Rhythm & Hues Studios for an informative seminar on how students should prepare for careers in feature film production. Todd Shifflett is a 1992 graduate of New York University with a major in film and television and a minor in computer science. He joined Rhythm & Hues in Los Angeles in 1993 starting as an FX artist and shortly thereafter taking on responsibilities of digital production.
Most recently, he has managed and supervised large-scale productions for feature films and commercials in the capacity of both visual and digital effect supervisor. Among his film credits, Todd served as Digital Effects Supervisor for Scooby Doo, Scooby Doo Two, and The Sixth Day.

October 19th 7:00 P.M.:

SIGGRAPH AND IGDA proudly present Alex Friderici
7:00 p.m. at FAU's Center for Electronic Communications:

Chapter President Fort Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH

September 22nd 7:00 P.M.:

SIGGRAPH AND IGDA proudly present the ELECTRONIC THEATER 7:00 p.m. at FAU's Center for Electronic Communications:

Hi Everyone,

hope you had a great time at SIGGRAPH, we will have a meeting at the CEC on September 22nd at 7:00 pm,
showcasing this year's Electronic Theater (Which btw was great).
220 S.E. 2nd Street, Downtown Fort Lauderdale.

We will also raffle off all kinds of goodies (T-Shirts and a bunch of Pixar posters, etc.)

Hope to see you there, please remember to tell your friends and colleagues about these meetings and have them sign up
for this list.

Thanks!

Markus Vogl - Fort Lauderdale Chapter President

July 21tst 7:00 P.M.:

SIGGRAPH AND IGDA proudly present Ian Eisenberg
7:00 p.m. at FAU's Center for Electronic Communications:

Ian Eisenberg, A renowned Maya guru, will cover Maya techniques using the new version 6 release!
Don't miss it.

We will also run the 20 minute SIGGRAPH2004 Preview DVD before we start. We also have some printed advance programs and posters for whomever is interested.

See you then,

-Fran McAfee, Director of Chapters

April 29th 7:00 P.M.:

SIGGRAPH AND IGDA proudly present LAURENCE GARTEL 7:00 p.m. at FAU's Center for Electronic Communications:

One of the most celebrated early pioneers of digital art LAURENCE GARTEL will grace the Ft. Lauderdale Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH for the first time in many years. GARTEL is known throughout most of the world as the "FATHER" of the digital photographic medium. GARTEL will give a dynamic lecture and showcase many of his early digital images and screen some of his brand new "DIGITAL MUSIC MOVIE" projects which are making the "buzz," even before their release on the Universal Entertainment Record Label.

GARTEL's work is a fusion of digital photography, 3D object scanning,
graffiti, and traditional painting. His work over three decades is like a journey through the entire digital art medium along with his personal iconography.

Visit the Artist's Website: www.gartelmuseum.com

April 3rd 7:00 P.M.:

WAYNE GILBERT'S SEMINAR ON CHARACTER ANIMATION AT THE MUSEUM OF ART MAIN AUDITORIUM CONTACT LYNK@MOALF.ORG
FOR RESERVATIONS :

Saturday April 3rd, Wayne Gilbert's Seminar on Character Animation. All Day at the Museum of Art Main Auditorium.

March 31st 7:00 P.M.:

SIGGRAPH AND IGDA GAME DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE WRAP UP 7:30 p.m. at FAU's Center for Electronic Communications:

10 YEAR FTL SIG SIGGRAPH Anniversary

We will meet on February 26th, at 7 PM, here at FAU's Center for
Electronic Communication - no charge for the meeting.
( www.animasters.com new website by member Sean Novak! )

Caleb Owens, unfortunately, will not present until later in the year. We
will keep you posted when he will be here via the IGDA and SIGGRAPH
Chapter email list. See links below.

However, this month is the 10th Anniversary of the Ft. Lauderdale
SIGGRAPH Chapter! We want to celebrate this achievement and we will
offer the following Meeting Agenda:

At 7 PM, we will start a retrospective of the last 5 years of Electronic
Theater ( ET ), selecting many excellent examples of computer animation shown at this prestigious conference. Many of you have asked me to do this in the past. BTW, the deadline to mail your entries is February 28th if you are interested in getting into the ET for SIGGRAPH2004. They also accept real-time content for this event, but you will need to make a movie of it.

Short Break for announcements, and new Rapid-Raffle Session. Raffle off Maya t-shirts, some Maya books, and something unusual....

At 8:15 PM , Marc Mencher and Tom Buscaglia talk about recruiting for
the game industry and the Game Developer's Conference which is coming up in March.

Meet at Ole Ole at Riverfront Complex afterward.

For those of you can afford it, I highly reccommend attending GDC and
SIGGRAPH2004. You will meet interesting people in the industries,
academia, and other students interested in computer graphics media. Some links below:

For deadlines and general information about SIGGRAPH2004
http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/

For deadlines and general information about the Game Developers
Conference http://www.gdconf.com/

If you want to be a student volunteer at SIGGRAPH2004 ( deadline 25
February 2004, 5 pm PST !!)
http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/cfp/students/volunteers/index.php?
pageID=cfp

Marc Mencher's website
www.GameRecruiter.com - Check Us Out!
His book on Game Industry Careers. Check Out - Get In The Game!
http://www.gamerecruiter.com/news.htm
Join Me at the 2004 Game Developers Conference - I'm Speaking,
March 22- 26th: http://www.cmpevents.com/GDx/a.asp?option=G&V=3&id=123884

Tom Buscaglia's website
http://www.gameattorney.com/

See you Thursday night!
All the Best,

-Fran McAfee
FTLSIG Chair
South Florida IGDA Board

January 14th:7:30 P.M.:

Fort Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter Meeting: Derek Smart at FAU's Center for Electronic Communications:

Derek Smart
"Ultimate Combat"

Be the first to see Derek Smart's new game, Ultimate Combat, at our next joint meeting of the local ACM SIGGRAPH and IGDA Chapters.
http://www.3000ad.com/
Derek will be doing a post mortem about the game's development as well
as a demonstration . Derek is South Florida's # 1 game developer if you
didn't already know.

Very good odds to win valuable prizes from the raffle as well (-maybe a
pre-release of the game itself)

Time: Wednesday night at 7:30 P.M. January 14th
Place: CEC Studios at FAU Downtown Ft. Lauderdale Campus- Askew Tower 9th floor
220 S.E. 2nd Avenue
$5 at the door- First come , first seated

Happy New Year!

Francis X. McAfee
Fort Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter Chair
Miami IGDA Board of Directors