Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Did anybody else catch the Narnia preview during ABC's airing of Finding Nemo?
Did I hear the animator actually say, "Only with the computer animation of today can you have a lion; you could not have a photorealistic lion five years ago." (Edit, 00:55 CST Sat 26 Nov 2005 - thanks to sui_degeneris for the qualification I omitted.)
Some qualification of that assertion is warranted!

In any case, I'm going to make a more extensive posting about massforge and CGA soon. Stay tuned!

Oh, and BTW: ( OMAWTFPOLARBEAR )

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Banazir

Who's reading this and interested in computer graphics? Show of hands, please?

I ask for two reasons:

• I need a good CG community - computer-generated images (CGI) or computer-generated animation (CGA) are the preferred emphases, especially 3-D photorealistic rendering and 2-D and 3-D nonphotorealistc rendering (NPR).
  I just removed opengl, because it's a mostly-dead community, and I don't have the time to revitalize it.


• ( Every spring, I teach CIS 736, Advanced CG )


• I'm also teaching CIS 636 (Introduction to Computer Graphics) for the first time this spring. It hasn't been offered in my department since around 1998 (eight years ago).
  ( On the relationship between CIS 636 and EECE 636 )
  ( How CIS 636 and CIS 736 will be run )

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Banazir