DMO: Let's talk about some fun stuff for a moment. What are you looking forward to seeing at this year's Siggraph?

Mark: This will be my 17th Siggraph, and I wouldn't miss it for the world. My favorite part is seeing all of my friends - especially at AWGUA@NIGHT, our annual gathering of users from around the world. As far as the show itself, I look forward to discovering the small startups that are at their first show. This is where I find some of the clever innovations that Siggraph is known for.

Joe: This year's kind of make or break for my little company, so I'll be pretty focused on our booth.

Several people are making cameos at my booth showing cool stuff that has little to do with my product(s). Scott Kirvan, for instance, will be showing his radiosity render 'Brazil', Greg Ercolano will be answering questions about his 'Rush' render queue. These are all guys that I consider innovative and interesting to have around, and I am constantly looking for ways we can work together.

Siggraph has become so 'in your face' about sales, we're hoping to create a 'Siggraph within a Siggraph' where people get together and discuss and play with all sorts of technology and trade notes with the guys who actually wrote it.

I don't think we're going to be alone with this approach, so the convention floor should be pretty interesting this year if you sniff around. There are several other innovative little seedlings that are going to be sprouting up around the convention floor that I'll be watching with great interest.

Dave: I'm looking forward to catching up with my buddies! The community around Siggraph really is the best thing about the show in my opinion. Sure, there will be great technology, and software vendors will have something new to say… but it's the people in our industry that make the difference. But otherwise, I'll be at the Discreet Booth - it's a big show for us this year.

Rowsby: I'm planning on attending and meeting some people I haven't seen in a while. I suppose the most important thing I'm looking forward to right now, is the Job Fair. ;)

Daryl: I am going to try and go a few days. I am looking to check out the new Matchmover…LightWave is going to have a ton to show as well…anything else is fluff really…<Laughter>

DMO: I got to see Matchmover back at NAB, it looks really nice.

Daryl: 2.0 is supposed to have automation, more similar to boujou..boujou right now is the most amazing thing I've seen. You feed it the footage, it turns out a track, and that's pretty much ALL you have to do...it's genius. They did some stuff literally while we watched.

Gregg: I'm interested to see the latest camera tracking and matchmoving software. There are a ton of really powerful features that have made the scene in the past year.

DMO: Any one tracking or matchmoving software you favor?

Gregg: Nah…they are all just tools in the toolbox.

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