{"id":92,"date":"2026-02-24T05:17:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melbourne.siggraph.org\/?p=92"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:49:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T05:49:27","slug":"siggraph-2025-computer-animation-festival-electronic-theater-traveling-show-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melbourne.siggraph.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/siggraph-2025-computer-animation-festival-electronic-theater-traveling-show-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGGRAPH 2025 Computer Animation Festival Electronic Theater Traveling Show in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’re invited to a FREE screening of the SIGGRAPH 2025 Electronic Theater Traveling Show!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival, a qualifying festival by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, brings the computer graphics community together to celebrate and showcase the best storytelling in short and feature films, visual effects, games, advertisements, scientific visualizations and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An internationally recognized jury reviews hundreds of submissions and selected the best work of the year, with awards for Best in Show, Jury\u2019s Choice, and Best Student Project. Since 1999, several works presented in the Computer Animation Festival have been nominated for or have received the Best Animated Short Academy Award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This collection from the Computer Animation Festival was shown at SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver. You’re now getting an exclusive opportunity to watch it in Melbourne, hosted by the Melbourne ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date<\/strong>: 12th March, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time<\/strong>: 7.30pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where<\/strong>: RMIT. Building 80, Swanston St. Room 80.02.07. Enter beside the entrance onto Swanston Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beforehand<\/strong>: Join us at The Oxford Scholar<\/a> (427 Swanston St) from 6.30pm for a pre-screening catch-up with fellow Melbourne chapter members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RSVP via this link<\/strong>: https:\/\/events.humanitix.com\/caf_in_melbourne<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LIST OF FILMS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

01. Forevergreen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:20 | United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An orphaned bear cub finds a home with a fatherly evergreen tree, until his hunger for trash leads him to danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

02. Perpetual Ocean 2: Western Boundary Currents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

05:26 | United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a scientific data visualization of ocean currents around the world based on the ocean model, Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO). The visualization is a tour of major currents of the world including western boundary currents and includes both surface and deep currents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

03. Surrounded<\/p>\n\n\n\n

00:40 | United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest in the \u201cGet an Airbnb\u201d series, \u201cSurrounded\u201d takes the miniature, tactile world we\u2019ve developed for Airbnb in an exciting new direction. Instead of positioning an Airbnb on a mostly empty stage environment where the focus is on the home itself, the Airbnb is nestled into a full-frame, immersive forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

04. Corpus and the Wandering<\/p>\n\n\n\n

07:11 | Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One dancer, one body, one phone. Modern society lives on the grid. Phone screens, conference calls, cubicles, apartment windows. We are systemically divided by a culture that profits from our collective alienation. When the COVID pandemic first hit, director and dancer Jo Roy was inspired to create a world transcending this insidious framework of consumerism and patriarchy. The result: Corpus and the Wandering, an experimental self-portrait that follows one woman\u2019s journey as she rediscovers her inner compass and kinship with nature. Using only her own body and her iPhone, Roy transforms a 100-screen \u201cvideomosaic\u201d grid into a wonderland of the Earth and beyond. A mix of technical innovation and creative vulnerability, Corpus and the Wandering dares to ask how we can remove the walls of a fragmented society and repurpose technology to align with an interconnected future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

05. Armored Core: Asset Management<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:28 | Hungary, United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a frostbitten frontier world, a legendary mech pilot learns his latest mission might hold the key to the demons that have haunted him for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

06. Diablo IV Vessel of Hatred Official Cinematic Trailer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

03:33 | United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The battle against Hatred has only just begun. Journey into the new region of Nahantu in search of Neyrelle, who is both suffering the fate of her choice to imprison the Prime Evil Mephisto, and seeking a means to destroy him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

07. CNESST – Hanging By A Thread<\/p>\n\n\n\n

01:00 | Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An office worker unravels as he struggles to deal with bullying, psychological violence and harassment at work. At work, psychological health can sometimes be so fragile that it “hangs by a thread.” The campaign aims to spark open conversations and encourage proactive solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

08. Flink\u2019s Pigeon Problems<\/p>\n\n\n\n

03:52 | Spain, United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flink sets out with a bit of magic to help rescue the messenger pigeons that have turned to stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

09. In Between<\/p>\n\n\n\n

05:46 | France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When little Nora’s parents split up, the Earth splits in two. She now has to juggle between both hemispheres to visit them. Problem is, the backpack she’s carrying is getting heavier and heavier…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Welcome to the City of Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

01:00 | United Kingdom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nexus Studios\u2019 Fx Goby draws a parallel between romantic love and the passion athletes feel for their sports in this launch film for the Olympic Games coverage. Fx and the Nexus Studios team led an artful choreography of 58 shots and 36 athletes in 60 seconds of breathtaking film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. End Of Summer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

06:14 | New Zealand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A boy navigates fleeting a childhood friendship and discovers his own queerness across three pivotal summers in 1990s southern China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. Supper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

05:54 | United States, South Korea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A table is set with an array of symbolic objects – fish, apple, hourglass, diamond, and a heart -prepared as an intricate meal. A colossal entity sits to partake. Is this entity a deity, the universe, or the essence of nature itself? The eternity humanity so fervently desires and the meaning it tirelessly seeks are reduced to nothing more than a single meal for this vast, inscrutable being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13. Trash<\/p>\n\n\n\n

06:17 | France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a dark alley, a scrawny rat has no choice but to fight with a pigeon for a small slice of pizza. Without a second thought they throw themselves in a vertiginous chase from the top to the bottom of the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14. Turbulence<\/p>\n\n\n\n

03:07 | Denmark<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First flight. No parents. Total panic. A terrified boy just wants to survive takeoff, but the plane\u2014and its deranged passengers\u2014have other plans. One guy treats turbulence like a free massage, another is way too at peace with crashing, and sanity is nowhere to be found. As the plane bucks and twists, so does reality\u2014faces stretch, limbs flail, and gravity calls it quits. Trapped at 30,000 feet in an airborne freak show, the boy must hold on for dear life\u2026 or completely lose it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

15. The Mooning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

03:10 | United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mooning is an animated mockumentary that reveals the truth behind the moon landing. This hard hitting doc uncovers America’s lost astronaut, Doug Reynolds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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