The 18th annual Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) will take place in sunny Los Angeles, California from July 26 to July 28, 2019, immediately before SIGGRAPH. For almost two decades now, SCA has been the premier forum for presenting innovations in the theory and practice of computer animation. Bringing together academic and industrial researchers and practitioners working in all aspects of time-based phenomena, SCA provides an intimate setting that encourages community interaction, promotes the exchange of research results, inspires future ideas, and establishes new collaborations. Conditionally accepted regular papers will undergo a second round of revision and will, upon approval, appear in the new journal Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (PACMCGIT). Best Paper Awards will be given to excellent submissions that push the leading edge. New this year, we are also excited to introduce SCA Sketches, which provides a forum to present and discuss your late-breaking, innovative, and thought-provoking animation ideas and work-in-progress at SCA.
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We invite work on a broad range of animation topics, including:
- 2D, 3D, and N-D animation systems
- Autonomous characters
- Clothing and hair animation and simulation
- Expressive motion / communication
- Facial animation
- Fabrication of dynamic objects and characters
- Group and crowd behavior
- Intuitive interfaces for creating and editing animations
- Mathematical foundations of animation
- Methods of control and artistic direction of simulations
- Nature in motion (natural phenomena, plants, clouds, …)
- New time-based art forms on the computer
- Novel time-varying phenomena
- Perceptual foundations and metrics for animation
- Physical realism / measuring the real world for animation
- Physical simulation
- Fluid animation
- Planning / learning / optimization for animation
- Real-time and interactive methods
- Camera control methods for computer animation
- Sound and speech for animation