Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation

The ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) is the leading meeting devoted exclusively to computer animation. The symposium attracts high quality papers and provides an opportunity for researchers in the area of computer animation to meet, share ideas and discuss emerging directions in the field. This year the eighth SCA was held in historic Dublin, Ireland, with special accommodations at Trinity College. These proceedings contain 24 papers from 60 submissions. The exceptional quality of the submitted papers made the final selection difficult. Each paper was typically reviewed by at least 4 members of the international program committee (IPC). The acceptance decisions involved sometimes lengthy online discussions among the IPC members. Similar to previous years, the final program includes papers on a variety of topics, including fluids, deformable objects, behavior modeling, real-time simulation, and motion capture and planning. This year the proceedings is in full color. The symposium continues to highlight promising works in progress with a poster and demo sessions. Our program included posters and demos which were presented in a special reception. Some of the posters were submitted papers that were not selected by the papers program, but encouraged to appear as posters. Additional posters were selected through a separate poster-review process.