Is it really over?

Wow.

It's Saturday morning, and I am back in Montreal. I finally had a chance to go through all the videos that are fab Avid Video team put together, and it was really great to see what they were able to capture.

The week of SIGGRAPH goes by in a blur.. i was there for 8 days this year, since Christine and I get in a few days early for set-up. As shown in the videos, we had a lot going on this year.. Production Challenge, the Education Summit, Reseller Meeting, Leadership Summit, Developer Conference and all that took place before the show even started!

We had a large amount of the latest available 8 core workstations at the show - due to ICE being multi-threaded, we were pretty demanding of our hardware partners that they had to provided fully loaded systems, and they all delivered! We had at least 20 systems from our great partners like HP, Dell and Lenovo for SIGGRAPH that included the latest and greatest technology, including a couple of the new Dreamcolour monitors.

We had a new booth this year, which was constantly standing room only. I do apologize for the small design flaw that caused some tripping around the corners - if it's any consolation, I was the first one to go flying when i walked into the booth first thing Tuesday morning. (Thanks Mark for pointing that out during your demo!)

Of course, party party.. we hosted the NICE ICE party on tuesday to replace our annual User Group. The goal this year was to celebrate the launch of ICE with our clients, and i think we certainly were able to do that! And i am still impressed with Vanilla's set and how NICE ICE he really is!

We also sponsored the Blur Crystal Method party on Wednesday. I headed over after stopping by the Pipeline FX party at the Standard. At Blur i missed Carmen Electra's performance unfortunately, but i did get the chance to dance for a bit, sore feet notwithstanding!

More pix coming soon.. thanks to everyone on the Softimage team and in the Softimage Community for a stellar week.. it was my 5th SIGGRAPH and my favorite one to date!