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EXECUTIVE BOARD (SPRING 2008)
HISTORY
Penn's ACM SIGGRAPH chapter is a production-oriented group which gives its members experiences in creating animated shorts and design games. We hope to give our members a practical environment to apply the skills they learn in the classroom and offer tutorials in what's not taught. Our group is heavily affiliated with other graphics programs at Penn, including Digital Media Design, Computer Graphics & Gaming Technology, and the Center for Human Modeling & Simulation.
The animation group spun-out of UTV13's animation department where the short Dink was started. Dink was screened at the ACM SIGGRAPH Electronic Theater and was a finalist in MTVu's Best Animation on Campus. Dink told the story of a cockroach's first day at college, and parodied many of the stereotypes of college life. Our group is currently rendering our latest short, Dusty, which is about a dustball trying to save its family from an uber vacuum cleaner.
The game department grew out of the desire of students to extend the techniques that they learned in the Virtual World Design class into a more ambitious project. They began production of a game using the Gamebryo engine, but scrapped that idea in favor of developing their own game engine for scratch. They hope to have the engine with a demo level created soon.
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