BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Linklings LLC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T190159Z LOCATION:West Building\, Ballroom C DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250811T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250811T120000 UID:siggraph_SIGGRAPH 2025_sess316@linklings.com SUMMARY:Animation Theater: Light Roast Shorts DESCRIPTION:Animation Theater returns again this year highlighting student and professional work. This block is smooth for a mellow morning looking on the bright side.\n\nAmen\n\nA group of pigs are raised peacefully in a monastery when, one day, one of them finds out the truth behind their exis tence. Thus he decides to free his friends.\n\n\nOrphée Coutier, Bettina D emarty, Kimie Maingonnat, Laurène Perego, Louise Poulain, and Avril Zundel (ENSI)\n---------------------\nCourage\n\nWhen Anna, an Olympic athlete, finds herself behind in the race, she redoubles her efforts with the aim o f winning the competition and never disappoint again. But as she pushes he rself beyond her limits, she burns out...\n\n\nMargot Jacquet, Nathan Baud ry, Marion Choudin, Jeanne Desplanques, Lise Delcroix, and Salomé Cognon ( Supinfocom Rubika)\n---------------------\nAreia\n\nVenturing through a di stant desert, we wander the terrain of our intimate desires and fears, see king answers. Yet, life never fails to deliver a surprise. When the opport unity arises, do you free yourself?\n\n\nIve Machado (No Affiliation) and Gustavo Ribeiro (Miralumo Films)\n---------------------\nSnow Bear\n\nWhen a Lonely Polar Bear Can't Find a Friend... He Makes One!\n\nSet in a rapi dly changing world, it tells the story of a polar bear on his quest for co mpanionship.\n\nA hand drawn 2D film, It's infused with humor and emotiona l depth in the tradition of classic animated films.\n\n\nAaron Blaise (Aar on Blaise)\n---------------------\nWormwood\n\nThe day the radiation disap pears, Simon rushes to the heart of the zone, taking his colleague Agathe with him, in the hope of rediscovering a lost past.\n\n\nMatthieu Dupille (GOBELIN) and Chenhe Liu, Philémon Martin, Ninon Quéméner, Alexander Vande rplank, and Binlin Xie (GOBELINS)\n---------------------\nThe Pillars of C reation and the Interplay of Stars and Dust\n\nThis scientific visualizati on explores the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula and the var ious ways that stars and dust are intertwined within our galaxy, vibrant n ebulae, and the birth of individual stars. Data from research papers and s everal NASA space telescopes underlies and informs ...\n\n\nFrank Summers and Gregory Bacon (Space Telescope Science Institute)\n------------------- --\nSimon Small\n\nBertil lives with his parents. One day, a little thumb size boy appears under his bed! His name is Nils Karlsson Pussling. The 2 boys bond right away and Nils shows Bertil a fascinating magical world rig ht inside his bedroom walls. Neither of them will ever be lonely again.\n\ n\nYaprak Morali (Qvisten Animation, Qvisten Animation AS) and Are Austnes (Qvisten Animation)\n---------------------\nThe Red Heel\n\nA midcentury misogynist gets what he deserves when he’s forced to spend a day in heels. \n\n\nElena Serenko (Ringling College of Art and Design)\n---------------- -----\nBacterial Molecular Landscape: Visualizing Earth's Simplest Life Fo rm\n\nThis scientific visualization depicts a bacterial molecular landscap e and explores the speed of diffusion and biochemical reactions that power life at the molecular scale.\n\n\nGael McGill (Digizyme Inc., Harvard Med ical School); Jonathan Khao (Digizyme Inc.); and Hans Busstra (Essentia Fo undation)\n\nRecording: Not Livestreamed, Not Recorded\n\nRegistration Cat egory: Full Conference, Experience END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR