{"id":28964,"date":"2020-08-18T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=28964"},"modified":"2020-08-17T21:54:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T02:54:28","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-animation-student-work-to-be-featured-at-international-computer-graphics-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2020\/08\/18\/austin-peay-state-university-animation-student-work-to-be-featured-at-international-computer-graphics-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University animation student work to be featured at international computer graphics conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The work of 10 Austin Peay State University (APSU) animation students will be highlighted at an international computer graphics conference that started Monday, August 17th, 2020.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_497960\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/APSU-animation-student-work-to-be-featured-at-international-computer-graphics-conference-1.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-497960\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-497960\" title=\"Screen capture of the Austin Peay State University student trailer. (APSU)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/APSU-animation-student-work-to-be-featured-at-international-computer-graphics-conference-1-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Screen capture of the Austin Peay State University student trailer. (APSU)\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-497960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen capture of the Austin Peay State University student trailer. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>APSU Associate Professor of Animation Scott Raymond recently submitted his Visual Effects 2 class\u2019s final project to the SIGGRAPH 2020 virtual conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the industry\u2019s biggest conference,\u201d Raymond said. \u201cIt\u2019s where Pixar debuts their new short films and where visual effects companies like Industrial Light and Magic present on their latest CGI breakthroughs for Marvel movies.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Austin Peay State University is one of only 23 schools chosen to have student work featured in the Faculty Submitted Student Work (FSSW) exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>The students who worked on the project are Kaci Daigle, Emma Ferrell, Paul Gibson, Myles Johnson, Edom Kassaye, Claire Layne, Nicholas Stiers, Seth Stracener, Peyton VanHook and Christopher Whitted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_497961\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-APSU-Faculty-Submitted-Student-Work-Exhibit.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-497961\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-497961\" title=\"ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 FSSW poster. (APSU)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2020-APSU-Faculty-Submitted-Student-Work-Exhibit-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 FSSW poster. (APSU)\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-497961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 FSSW poster. (APSU)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can see their project, titled \u201cCollaborative UFO Trailer,\u201d by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/425676687\" >clicking here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The conference will present work via YouTube and the conference website. The conference, normally in person, is completely digital this year from August 17th-28th. For more information about the conference, go to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/s2020.siggraph.org\/\" >https:\/\/s2020.siggraph.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[470center]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FSSW is an online archive of assignment and project briefs as well as an exhibition of the student work created for those projects. Sponsored and curated by the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee and designed as a way for educators to share their project ideas across schools and disciplines, this annual exhibition of work during the SIGGRAPH conference also offers a venue for participants to see the student work.<\/p>\n<p>For more about this year\u2019s FSSW entries, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/education.siggraph.org\/conferences\/annual-conference\/siggraph-2020\/fssw\" >click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ACM is the Association for Computing Machinery. SIGGRAPH stands for Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the APSU Department of Art + Design, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apsu.edu\/art-design\" >www.apsu.edu\/art-design<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; The work of 10 Austin Peay State University (APSU) animation students will be highlighted at an international computer graphics conference that started Monday, August 17th, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,30841,7207,262,34872,34191,512,825,34870,34868,34867,34194,34193,34869,32670,27864,34871],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-7xa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28965,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964\/revisions\/28965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}