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Alias is Everywhere at SIGGRAPH 2003
Posted by: amigo
Source: Press Release
 Date: Mon Jul 28 2003
San Diego, CA � SIGGRAPH - July 28, 2003 � Alias Systems, a Silicon Graphics Inc. (NYSE: SGI) company, kicked off SIGGRAPH� this week with AGUA� - its annual Alias� Global Users Association meeting. More than 1,800 industry professionals and 3D enthusiasts joined Alias and its customers ESC Entertainment, Charlex and SuckerPunch Productions in showing off industry leading projects and the recently announced Alias ImageStudio � Alias� newest product.

Just prior to SIGGRAPH, Alias announced its 20th anniversary and name change along with new products Alias StudioTools 11, Alias PortfolioWall� 1.6 and Alias ImageStudio. Alias announced today Maya Personal Learning Edition� 5 which will be available at the Alias booth and the Alias online store as part of a Learning Maya� Beginner�s Guide. Downloads of Maya Personal Learning Edition 5 will begin in Fall 2003. Along with new software announcements, Alias is also launching 10 new Maya Learning Tools� at the show, including new books for learning Maya� 5.

Stop by the Alias booth (#3015) to see Maya 5, StudioTools 11 and Alias SketchBook Pro�. Stay awhile longer and listen to presentations from the entertainment industry�s most exciting companies:

- Kleiser-Walczak � X-Men 2
- Pandemic � Full Spectrum Warrior video game
- Radical Entertainment � The Hulk video game
- Sony Pictures Imageworks � Charlie's Angels
- Sony Pictures Imageworks � Early Bloomer
- Tippett Studio � Blockbuster commercials/A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Turner Studios �broadcast work
- Weta Digital � The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Charlex � Various commercial work
- Biographic Technologies � AI.implant technology

Alias products can also be seen on the show floor at the ATI booth, #2936, HP booth # 2115, Intel booth #1901, Nvidia booth # 2625 and at the Wacom booth #2428.

Alias is offering more Maya MasterClasses� than ever before with 21 sessions running from July 28 � August 1, 2003. Tickets can be purchased onsite at SIGGRAPH either at the Alias booth (#3015) or at Marina Ballroom F in the Marriott Hotel & Marina, which is the location for all Maya MasterClasses. Prices start at $125 USD per class.

Jos Stam, a renowned Alias research scientist will make multiple presentations during the papers and panels session at the conference - Keyframe Control of Smoke Animations with colleagues from the University of Washington and Flows on Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology.

George W. Fitzmaurice, Gordon Kurtenbach and Azam Khan, from the Alias product development group will co-present a paper titled: Boom Chameleon: Simultaneous Capture of 3D Viewpoint, Voice and Gesture Annotations on a Spatially Aware Display along with Bill Buxton, Buxton Design and Michael Tsang, University of Toronto.

For more information on Alias� SIGGRAPH announcements, please visit www.alias.com


Related Links:
Alias website


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