Day One - Set-up is FUN!

My colleague Christine and I arrived in San Diego yesterday to start our SIGGRAPH journey.

San Diego is such a great location for SIGGRAPH. We are staying at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, which is a short walk from the Convention Center. Yesterday we went to the show floor and watched the beginning of booth construction. Fascinating stuff! The show floor looks the same but different from Boston last year. Soft is right at the front of the hall, next to Natural Motion and Autodesk.

Later, we walked to the locations of our two events - the Spreckels Theatre where our User Event is taking place, and House of Blues, where our party is happening the next night. Both are located downtown near the Gaslamp District downtown. There is still room to register for both if you haven't yet: http://www.softimage.com/events/sig07/default.aspx

I just had the nicest chat with Roger, who works with Syd Mead, to coordinate next Tuesday's presentation. They were just here for Comicon, and are both very excited to come back for SIGGRAPH. Funnily enough, just last week Syd and Roger attended a screening of '300' in LA, where they were promoting Blade Runner as well, and there they spent some time with Zac Snyder. So our user event next Tuesday already had a dry-run of sorts, at the PetCo Stadium!!

Syd will be selling copies of his new DVD at the Softimage User Event, and will be signing them in the Softimage booth on Wednesday at 10am. If you are registered for the VIP cocktail before the User Event, you might be able to get your DVD signed there by Syd as well!!

Anyhow, back to work. We have a bunch of meetings today to make sure all details are covered, as we await the arrival of our colleagues from Europe, Asia and some of the Special Projects team from Venice, CA. The majoriy of the Montreal team arrives tomorrow.

See you soon -

jen