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Media FX News Archives
Thursday
- June 28, 2001
- Shrek Passes $218 Million
- SIGGRAPH to Recognize
Graphic Artists
- Shrek Opens in the U.K. Tomorrow
- News Link of the Day
- Two Views of Animation Facing Off
 Shrek
Passes $218 Million
(by digitalmediafx.com) Shrek continues to perform
strongly, bringing in more than $218 million to date and moving
into the #3 slot for the highest
grossing animated films (not adjusted for inflation).
Since opening domestically on May 18, 2001, Shrek has never
made below $1 million on an given day and has consistently had
the lowest weekend-to-weekend drop of any film.
There are
rumors that DreamWorks will soon pull Shrek from theaters
then rerelease it again in November into theaters against Monsters,
Inc. and Warner Bros. Harry Potter movie. DreamWorks
has neither confirmed nor denied these reports.
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SIGGRAPH
to Recognize Graphic Artists
(by digitalmediafx.com) SIGGRAPH has announced the winners
of its three major graphic awards that will be presented at SIGGRAPH
2001 from August 12 - 17 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Here are the winners:
Steven
A. Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer
Graphics
Being presented to Lance Williams who is being recognized for
his fundamental and far reaching technical ideas, his pioneering
artistic contributions to the field, and his generous and unflagging
mentorship to many of the leading lights in computer graphics
research today.
"Through
his ideas, his artistry, and his humanity, Lance Williams has
made a lasting impact on computer graphics, both as a discipline
and as a community," said Ed Catmull, ACM SIGGRAPH Awards
Chair. "We hope that by awarding him the highest honor ACM
SIGGRAPH can bestow, William's song will finally be sung."
Computer
Graphics Achievement Award
Being presented to Andrew Witkin whose papers on active contours
(snakes) and deformable models, variational modeling, scale-space
filtering, space time constraints, and dynamic simulation are
considered landmarks that have been inspirational to others and
have shaped the field in such different areas as image analysis,
surface modeling, and animation.
Significant
New Researcher Award
Being presented to Paul Debevec to recognize his recent creative
and innovative work in the field of image-based modeling and rendering.
Debevec's series of papers, movies, and accomplishments have been
a major highlight of recent SIGGRAPH conferences. In the spirit
of the very best computer graphics researchers, he has combined
his technical and research interests with his artistic sensibilities.
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Shrek Opens
in the UK Tomorrow
(by digitalmediafx.com) While U.S. audiences anticipate the
release of A.I. tomorrow, the UK will be seeing Shrek
for the first time. Shrek should have no problem finishing
first for the weekend as Shrek has received a lot of publicity
in the UK over its record-breaking performance in the U.S., being
established as the film to beat this year at the U.S. box office.
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News Link
of the Day - Two Views of Animation Facing Off
According
to CNN:
"If you're
a fan of animated films, this summer could be the Golden Age of
the art form, a convergence of old and new, art and technology.
One style
of animation -- two-dimensional hand-drawn -- could be heading
the way of the dinosaur, but it's still raking in bucks at the
box office with films such as Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
And another
style -- three-dimensional computer animation -- has a new box
office hero in Shrek…"
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