SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival’s Electronic Theater 2025

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

Since 1999, the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival’s Electronic Theater has been recognized as a qualifying festival by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It began as an annual showcase of advances in computer graphics, and now celebrates the rise of computer graphics as a medium for storytelling in animation, visual effects, games, scientific visualization, and more.

2025 Call for Entries

Eligibility:

Completed one year before the deadline (19 March 2024).
All forms of computer animation are eligible, including but not limited to: 3D computer animation, 2D animation, visual effects and live action, real-time video game play, data visualizations, simulations, scientific illustrations, and digitally manipulated imagery and video

Categories:

Advertisements: Commissioned branded short.
Feature/Episodic Visual Effects: Trailer, clip, or breakdown reel from a live action feature film or episodic.
Feature/Episodic Animations: Trailer, clip, or breakdown reel from an animated feature film or episodic.
Short Films: Original short computer animated film.
Cinematics: Selection from a larger work, such as a game, presented as a short film.
Real-Time Graphics: Short film or selection from a larger work reel showcasing graphics created using real-time rendering.
Scientific/Data Visualization: Data-Driven Visualizations based on research of domain scientists, including 3D data from a supercomputer simulation or numerical model driven by large scientific data. -OR-Conceptual Animation Visualizations created from the knowledge of domain scientists, employing digital tools and methods rather than large computations.
Simulations: Utilizing the mathematical description, or model, of a real system in the form of computer imagery to represent the dynamic responses of one system by the behavior of another system.

• Submission form
• Deadline: 18 March 2025