Awards Banquet:
The Honors and Awards Banquet will take
place at 8:00 PM on Monday, May 19th in the Golden State Room of the
Wilshire Grand Hotel. Tickets cost $50 and must be purchased in
advance-they will not be available on site. For a complete list of Award
Winners click here.
Special Event:
SID 2008 Special Event Sponsored by Samsung
Wednesday Evening, May 21st, 2008
Ticket Price - $40.00
LA
Dodgers Baseball Game
Buses will leave the LA
Convention Center between 6:00 and 6:30 to take attendees to the stadium
for the 7:10 start time. Our seats will be located in the right field All-You-Can-Eat-Pavilion.
The menu for this all-you-can-eat event is: Dodger dogs, nachos,
peanuts, popcorn, Coca-Cola products and water. Items that are available
for purchase are: beer, ice cream and candy. Each person attending the
game will also receive a Dodgers cap that will also include the SID and
Samsung logos embroidered on it. Buses will return after the game and
drop people off at each of the SID blocked hotels (Wilshire Grand,
Westin, Marriott and Holiday Inn).
Luncheon:
The Luncheon will take place at 12:00 Noon on Wednesday, May 21st at the
Concourse Hall 151 of the Los Angeles Convention Center. Tickets cost
$35.
Speaker: Andy Hendrickson
VP-Technology, Walt Disney Animation Studios
Title: Displays and Digital Entertainment
The Walt Disney Company entertains and
communicates with its guests through displays in cinemas, theme parks,
and homes. The evolution of display technology is, therefore, of
critical interest to us as it is to other entertainment companies. In
this talk I will describe various display-related challenges and
opportunities that are specific to the entertainment industry:
- Improving artist productivity through
novel display technologies and interactions
- Stereo displays for cinema exhibition
and for the home
- Formats for "future
proofing" with unknown displays yet to be conceived
- Signage displays
- Low-power, reflective displays for
hand-held devices
- Embedded displays for theme-park
characters and props
Andy Hendrickson
Biography:
As Head of Technology at Walt Disney
Animation Studios, Andy Hendrickson is responsible for the strategy and
direction of the technology used to create the fairy tale worlds of
Disney's films. Equal measures of Imagination, Artistry, Software, and
Systems create the recipe that produces today's animated adventures.
Prior to joining Disney, Hendrickson was
Head of Technology at PDI/Dreamworks creators of Shrek I, II, and III.
Working, most notably, on creating a scale of technology necessary to
annually release two major motion pictures while maintaining a swamp fit
for an Ogre.
He held the post of Senior Technology
Officer for Industrial Light + Magic (ILM). Whether bringing a T-Rex to
life, creating planets inhabited by Droids, or turning back time to
Pearl Harbor, he was responsible for all strategic planning and
operations of the studio's software and systems.
Hendrickson began his career in the
motion picture industry in 1990 as a Digital Design Engineer at
Skywalker Sound, a division of Lucasfilm, assisting in the
transformation of the sound post-production industry from analog tape to
digital bits.
Hendrickson holds a degree in Physics
from the University of California, Berkeley and has been awarded several
U.S. Patents during his career. He is a member of SMPTE and active in
the area of technology for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and
Sciences. Subject areas of interest include image perception, high
dynamic range, color sciences, non-photorealistic rendering, 3D
stereographic display, and motion simulation/synthesis.
