July 2003
Dear Friends of Summer Breeze,
Summer is very pleasant in NYC so far, and we are wrapping up for SIGGRAPH. Our new trailer will be released in the exhibition, and we are excited to share with you our schedule, and other news:
SIGGRAPH 03
Monday morning Tami Zori will be on a plane to San Diego, heading for SIGGRAPH were she will show off our work, inseparably from the technology which makes it possible.
We prepared a special demo about the cloth simulation work in Summer Breeze as this is a central aspect in our film, and we are overly pleased with the technology we are using for it. The companies who are responsible for the simulator, the processors, the graphic cards and the computers; SyFlex, AMD, NVIDIA and BOXX are including our presentation in their show in SIGGRAPH.
Summer Breeze will also be featured in a banner at the BOXX booth, and in an ad from NVIDIA and HP in the special Electronic Theater addition of CGW magazine!
Please check out our SIGGRAPH schedule, as posted on our front page .
TRAILER RELEASE
Especially for SIGGRAPH, we are releasing the Summer Breeze trailer. If you are going to SIGGRAPH, you will be one of the lucky people who will get to see it first… Look for it at our supporters’ booths: AMD, BOXX Technologies, NVIDIA, SyFlex and Right Hemisphere. If you are not going, worry not! We are having a web release right after the exhibition is over… So stay tuned.
SUMMER BREEZE MUSIC
There will be no trailer without music, and Max Surla had joined us to create it. Max is a professional composer who have composed music for animation and documentary films with such networks as PBS, Lifetime, A&E and Discovery. He will also work with us on the complete film. We are very excited to have Max working with us!
We are also very excited to haveSplash Studios work with us on the sound effects and mix.
GRANT RECEIVED
We were very pleased this month to discover that we are the recipients of the John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund. You can find out more about who supports us and how to support us, here:
http://www.summerfilm.com/support.html
http://www.summerfilm.com/contribution.html
OUR INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
The internship program we have launched this summer was very successful and we plan to continue with it. Annie Chen from SVA worked on cloth simulation and will join Tami Zori in the SIGGRAPH presentation, Arlene Persaud from NYU worked with us on vegetation, Joseph Singer from NYU worked with us on modeling, and Qiao Liou from SVA is working on texturing and modeling and she painted the very blue Summer Breeze skies.
So, until next time, enjoy the breeze…
