Photos from SIGGRAPH 2003

[WilliamVaughan]

I found these online and will be adding some of what I took at the show as well....did anyone else get pix from teh show that they would like to add to this thread?

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And some more

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and a couple of LW geeks :)

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Some more can be found here:
http://www.newtek.com/newtek/behind/gallery/Sig03?&page=1

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Expose Book....Lotsa great LW work in there:

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Is that Tom Cruise?

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Werner Rocks!

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Ed from the BOXX Booth:

Always sitting down on the job.....this time cuaght in the act :)

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I love the way the Booth turned out....people could see it from every spot at the show:

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Jonny's Boxx Bot anim played great in openGL....Jonny Rocks!

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Thanx to Terry Ford, Cel Shader, and Kurt Larsen and others we had great imagery on our back wall!

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We also had amazing Demo reels to show off the power of LW...Thanx to our great users!

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Irene got to celebrate her Bday...a bit late but who's counting :)

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Dinner with Dstorm was awesome....we all left very full on Steak :)

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Irene, Matsu, Kito, and buddy.....say cheese

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Some of the many people that waited for us to get the party started:

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Some very cool Washington LW users....look for their users group:

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Jenifer, Jessica, and Mike hit the bar (with me)....

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Look ma...No hands:

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Hurray Beer....there's no better way to demo...mouse in one hand...Red Stripe in the other :)

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BOXX machines were at the party.....

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Isacc showing off his Mad Fusion Skills:

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The morning after :P

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Some of the first to see LW8 at the show:

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Deuce and I talk Math....yikes

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This is where the VT3 was streaming out to all of you:

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Jenifer was showing off some killer Cel Shade and Soft Body techniques:

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We put Steve Warner to work and the guy just kept going...and going.....

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crowd cuaght in the LW8 gaze:

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We borrowed a little bit of the BOXX booth from time to time:

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Don MCcoy was great...he was fun to have on stage and shared alot of info about working on Children of Dune...if you own LW you should own this movie!

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Deuce stands in Awe of the great work by Area 51:

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Great give aways...this time it was a training DVD from Class on Demand

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We gave away a total of 10 Full seats of LW 7.5 :)

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This guy was very happy to be a winner!

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We spent some time with Chris Zaparra and talked about his work on Buffy, and Children of Dune.

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We gave away LW hats....and this guy looks like he might try and steal it from oneof our winners:

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Mike, Deuce, and Art pose for a snapshot

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Steve and I start into a Song :)

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SOme of the talented guys from Computer Cafe stopped by

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We even put the founder of NewTek, Tim to work:

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Deuce and I discussed LW's cel shade tools

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Then we got the master up on stage

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It was a real treat to learn from the pro

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Aussie doing his magic on the stream:

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Mike was like a Kid in a candy store since they let him out of his cage and he got to demo LW8 at the show :)

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Behind the main stage we had crowds gathering to see an even closer look at 8:

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I had a great talk with Steven Stahlberg which was a highlite for me atthe show:

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Don and the other guests stuck around to talk with everyone....

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Larry worked the BOXX Booth and the main stage showing off some of the new Bone tools as well as some modeling techniques:

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Raf Anzovin shared some insight into his work on the GIJOE commercials:

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JP Wilson also showed The Setup Machine and answered users questions:

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Bone Dynamics Rock!

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Having fun smashing things:

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Paul showed off the power of VT3

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Things got intense towards the end

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The Heroic Trio wrap up the show:

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And the winner of the last copy of LW 7.5 goes to.........

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and that's a wrap....let's see some user pix!

[mr_nebel]

wow, my 56k is groaning under the weight but i'm suitably impressed, especially considering its 3am here.
Time to start the saving for next year. :D

[policarpo]

Great photos!

You guys did a great job! But get back to work so we can get 8 even sooner.:D

WOO HOO!!

[facial deluxe]

Originally posted by policarpo
Great photos!

You guys did a great job! But get back to work so we can get 8 even sooner.:D

WOO HOO!!
YEAH BABE YEAH !:cool:

[Werner]

oh man! those are awesome! Like I said before...I wish I could be there. It looks like you guys and girls had a lot of fun.