Sheldon Andrews (profs.etsmtl.ca/sandrews/) is running for the ACM Executive Committee this year. I've known Sheldon for a long time and I think he will do a great job ! I voted for him, you should too www.acm.org/elections/si...

<megaphone> The incredible @rishit-dagli.bsky.social took VoMP, his volumetric material predictor, and made it adaptive! This increases the detail of SimReady assets dramatically <see below>

I recently completed my PhD thesis, where I developed algorithms for making geometric inferences from imperfect data (i.e. incomplete and inaccurate observations/representations of shapes, like broken meshes or point clouds). A thread 🧵:

<megaphone> #SCA2026 News Deadline for submitting revisions of provisionally accepted papers has been extended to June 10th due to delays getting reviewer comments out to authors. computeranimation.org

Something something chickens something something home to roost

New paper by the incredible Donglai Xiang (xiangdonglai.github.io) at CVPR 2026 using RKPM inside a data free training framework to compute reduced elastic models. Trains faster, works better than competing Neural Network approaches. Check it out: research.nvidia.com/labs/sil/pro...

I've been using github.com/Yixin-Hu/Tet... to mesh some truly crazy shapes and I am again reminded how amazing this software is and how much of my research it enables. Incredible.

One more great SCA keynote … Danny Kaufman of Adobe Research will talk about his foundational work in contact simulation and more! computeranimation.org/program.html

We have a fun new paper to appear at SIGGRAPH 2026, led by Columbia PhD student Xiana Carrera, that extends dual contouring to work nicely with [pure] signed distance samples. It avoids classic DC's additional requirement of providing accurate Hermite / […] [Original post on mastodon.acm.org]

The poster deadline for SCA is coming up on June 1st! Posters are a great way to be apart of SCA and let the animation community know about your new, hot off the presses research. computeranimation.org

More SCA Keynote news! Moritz Bächer, Lab Director of Disney Research Imagineering in Zurich, will be joining us ! If you've seen Disney's robotic Olaf and BDX Star Wars droids, you've seen Moritz's work in action. computeranimation.org/program.html

To everyone who submitted to SCA .. thank you ! We ended up with the second most submissions in 13 years !!!! Bad news - we have a hiccup releasing reviews back to you. We are working on it and our plan is to adjust the rebuttal deadline to compensate (once it's sorted). sca.graphics #SCA2026

Remember it's not too late to get on board with this. I think it's important to stand up for underrepresented people even in minor ways. You can always send your submissions to TOG which has a new EIC and new faster turn around times. #SIGGRAPHAsia 2026

The wonderful Nicole Feng, defending her PhD thesis on generalized distances & winding numbers. So proud of her, and very excited about all the places she will go. nzfeng.github.io (Also that text outline shaded by the surface is some galaxy brain diagramming. 🤯🧠🌌)

What a twist !

Big SCA 2026 update! The incomparable A.M. Darke (news.ucsc.edu/2024/10/am-d...) will be one of our keynote speakers. Professor Darke is one of the leading voices on diversity in games and we are thrilled she will be joining us in Barcelona. computeranimation.org/program.html More news soon ...

I am continually asked if VFMs "understand" classical mechanics and my benchmark for this is the venerable newton's cradle. Let's take a look at progress over the last year using Google's Veo models -- a 🧵

Google Deepmind likes to publish one of these "can VFMs do physics" papers every so often. This year the conclusion is "not quite" last time the conclusion was "its promising" Playing at home ? We're at best stuck and at worst going backwards. video-zero-shot.github.io physics-iq.github.io

Today’s the day ! Final paper submission deadline for SCA! Let’s gooooo sca.graphics

It's looking good for SCA 2026 ! If all the abstracts submitted are converted into full submissions it will be the most submissions to SCA in the last 10 years !!!! Final submission deadline: April 17th sca.graphics

<megaphone emoji> Today’s the day ! SCA abstracts due by 23:59 UTC April 10th Submit here: srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Confer... sca.graphics

Great thread! I also struggled (still struggle) with a lot of this stuff but Rook articulates it much better than I ever could.

And we're back !!!!! Submit those abstracts :) Link: srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Confer...

And it’s down again 😬 Will post when the issue is fixed (secretly hoping y’all crashed it with the volume of submissions)

For those submitting to SCA (sca.graphics) — the submission system (SRM) is back up after an outage yesterday. Remember abstract deadline is tomorrrow :) Submit here: srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Confer...

@rishit-dagli.bsky.social's amazing VoMP model is now available for to the people, including a fun demo on @hf.co. Check it out. research.nvidia.com/labs/sil/pro...

Abstract deadline coming up fast (April 10) Don’t forget to submit !!

I’m just saying …

Effectively received a SIGGRAPH summary for a rejected paper that can be summed up as "waaaaaah don't show my open source simulation software has a failure case" 🫠

No love from #SIGGRAPH ? Submit those animation papers to the Symposium on Computer Animation computeranimation.org ! Abstract deadline: April 10th Submission deadline: April 17h Conference: Barcelona, Spain July 8th-10th Be there!

Called it.

@cemyuksel.com I’m with you, I definitely will not see you at SIGGRAPH Asia No submissions, no reviewing, no service.

About 6 months ago, I publicly announced that I would be boycotting #SIGGRAPHAsia 2026. Today, I released a video explaining my rationale and calling on others to do the same, because I believe it is important. Here it is: youtu.be/bZ6s0-EQp8M

Given my average SIGGRAPH review score vs those I've gotten in the last few months at ICLR, CVPR and ICML, I think maybe I do machine learning now ???

Our Rising Stars 2026 application campaign is currently open so we thought we would share some updates about our past rising stars 🌟 follow us in the next couple weeks to read more! Learn more about the program and apply >> www.wigraph.org/events/2026-...

Every one of my 3 #SIGGRAPH 2026 has one review (of four) that gptzero detects as 100% AI generated (not ai polished, or mixed, but 100% generated). 2/3 of those AI tagged reviews argue to reject the paper.

SIGGRAPH reviews are out, and I’m always reminded how, since SIGGRAPH doesn’t make anonymized reviews or discussion public, there is not even a minor disincentive to writing poor reviews (often violating the reviewing policy itself). I’ve been asking for this for years. It’s never going to happen.

Can't believe my new website didn't make it. www.diwlevin.com

My website has previously been described as "where the internet goes to die" and "the virtual embodiment of a calling card scam" and "detrimental to <my> career". Despite these compliments, I felt it was time to make something slightly more useful: www.diwlevin.com

The man who hated robots finds love with a robot.

The Symposium on Computer Animation is Coming! BARCELONA, SPAIN. JULY 8 - 10, 2026! Papers Abstract Deadline: April 10, 2026 Poster Deadline: June 1, 2026 Website: sca.graphics Call for papers : computeranimation.org/instructions... Barcelona > LA (Come on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada...)

OMG such an honour for me !

Reminds me of photo-ops where politicians visit a job site. Look they’re wearing a hard hat and holding a hammer, they understand !

Don’t worry spaceX is going to take all that IPO money and buy a million Optimus robots.

My PhD student Abhishek Madan is getting ready to graduate and he’s looking for a postdoc or industry position. Checkout his website www.dgp.toronto.edu/~amadan/ He’s been an amazing student , basically does all his research by himself. Fantastic math and implementation acumen.

For the first time in a while none of the SIGGRAPH papers I’ll submit have any ML (no neural nets no nothing) in them. Why ? The truth is that for most of my use cases those techniques have yet to show any practical benefit over good ol’ meshes and math.

It's funny to me that the SGP call for papers basically has all of SCA as a subtopic and I'm pretty sure SCA does the same thing in reverse. It's like a snake eating its tail.

We are all just notation artists … My PhD advisor was always testing creative hacks for math notation, from using colours to different typefaces to label quantities. I like using visually meaningful decorations (like tilde for deformed quantities because it looks like a squished bar).

Hey I made a new thing - it's called Gradientspace Graph, and it's a C#-based NodeGraph Programming system that also supports inline C# and Python "Code Nodes". The NodeGraph Engine is MIT Open-Source and the Editor is Free. More details here: www.gradientspace.com/tutorials/20...

This sounds like a great course, may have to steal this idea ;)