Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, San Antonio, TX, USA, July 21-22, 2002

Welcome to the first ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation! The creation of this symposium was motivated by the need for a forum where researchers and practioners in computer animation could interact on a smaller and more intimate scale than a conference such as SIGGRAPH. It is our hope that the symposium will play an important role in fostering an improved sense of community among its participants.The active participation of many people is of course the key to any community, and the computer animation community is no different. With this in mind, we assembled a program committee of over 50 experts in all aspects of computer animation to help shape this year's program. A total of 53 submissions were received. Each paper received at least 3 reviews by members of the program committee, who then made a recommendation to the program chairs. The quality of the submissions was remarkable, considering that this is the first and founding year for the symposium. In the end, 22 papers were selected for presentation and publication in the proceedings.