Be Entertained at the SIGGRAPH 2015 Computer Animation Festival
July 29, 2015

Be Entertained at the SIGGRAPH 2015 Computer Animation Festival

The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival is the leading annual festival for the world's most innovative, accomplished, and amazing digital film and video creators. 

An internationally recognized jury receives hundreds of submissions and presents the best work of the year in the two programs of the Computer Animation Festival, Daytime Selects and the Electronic Theater. Selections include outstanding achievements in animated feature and short films, scientific visualization, visual effects, real-time graphics, game excerpts, and much more.

The Computer Animation Festival is recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival. Since 1999, several works originally presented in the Computer Animation Festival have been nominated for or have received a Best Animated Short Academy Award.

There are various components to the festival. The Electronic Theater (South Hall K,
Monday, August 10: 6 - 8 pm
; Wednesday, August 12: 8:30 - 10:30 pm) showcases an eclectic mix of the finest work in computer graphics from the past 12 months.

Daytime Selects showcases curated work in experimental film and animation, live-action shorts, stop motion, traditional animation, children’s film and animation, and time-based art, Daytime Selects presents the most provocative, compelling, and avant garde short films and animations, both CG and non-CG. 


Production Sessions enable attendees to discover how world-class creative and production talent created the computer animation and visual effects in some of the Computer Animation Festival's most provocative works.


Live presentations reviewing the year's most innovative real-time graphics, celebrating interactive rendering techniques across all fields and hardware platforms are featured at Real-Time Live!.

The Computer Animation Festival is recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival. Since 1999, several works originally presented in the Computer Animation Festival have been nominated for or have received a Best Animated Short Academy Award.