UPenn ACM SIGGRAPH Wiki

Welcome to the UPenn ACM SIGGRAPH Wiki. This is intended as a repository for information about tools we use — Maya, Pixar's RenderMan — as well as project-specific details. It is paramount to the utility of this wiki that it stay organized.

• Mailing Lists.

• Maya: A modeling and animation package used by the game and animation department
• RenderMan: Pixar’s rendering software used primarily by the animation department
• PIP: A proprietary Python-based Asset/Process management system that the animation department began to develop until they found openPipeline
• openPipeline: An open-sourced MEL-based Asset management system that the animation department will use on their upcoming untitled project.
• OGRE: Scene graph (and more) library used in the game department

Our Animation Department offers weekly tutorials to gain practical knowledge of applications such as Maya and Renderman, allowing students to learn and immediately apply their newfound skills to our animation projects. Our first production, Dink!, is an award-winning, fully CG animation featuring a college-age cockroach’s first RA meeting.

• Pipeline
• Projects
  • Dink (2003)
  • Dusty (Indefinite Hiatus)
  • Bolivia Project
  • Ben's Short (In Production)
  • Development (Upcoming Shorts)

Our Game Department is working on a realtime 3D game using several different programming languages. For rendering we’ve chosen the open-source OGRE library. Game assets are created in Maya and processed by custom tools. Our standard build environment is Visual Studio 2005 and our engine is written in C++. We hope to offer workshops and instruction in low-level 3D using OpenGL and higher-level material using OGRE.

• CSE462/CIS562: Computer Animation w/ Dr. Lane
• CSE460/CIS560: Computer Animation w/ Dr. Lane

Mark Fickett is currently the head administrator; let him know if you want any configurations changed. You may sign up an account for yourself, but you will not have administrative privileges by default; again, ask him to set you up. (You will then be able to add other admin. users.)

A page for Discussion is available (in place of the MediaWiki ‘talk’ pages) to discuss changes.