Demoscene Outreach Group

The demoscene outreach group was formed one year ago in response to the noticeable lack of demos at the international computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH.

Our presentation at SIGGRAPH this year went extraordinarily well. We had three speakers, Saku Lehtien, Soren Hannibal, and Aaron Foo. The focus was on the history of the scene, a personal perspective, and an overview of the benefits of the scene for the members of the scene and for the graphics community at large.

We packed the room, and had many people in the hallway watching through the doors. Several scene members were present, including several from Smash Designs, Purple, OTM, hybrisNEMESIS, and more.

Three demos were submitted to the Animation Festival this year: .the .product, Live Evil, and Wonder. These were not accepted this year, but we learned they did cause an discussion among the judges. We pursued the matter with the chair of the animation festival for 2002. He has agreed to create a 'real-time animation' category, and work with us in building awareness in the judges about the technical merits for the category.

Further, we have better plans for involvement next year. These include moving the presentation portion to a larger format more mainline track of the conference, involvement in the "Creative Applications Laboratory" were attendees can run demos live, and a social gather for scene members.

We will provide more information for submission to SIGGRAPH 2002 in the next few months. It is important that we have a large number of submissions from the scene to the Computer Animation Festival. This will build awareness among the judges and give them a basis for comparison.

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