SCA

The ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) continues to be a leading scientific meeting devoted exclusively to computer animation. The Symposium attracts high-quality papers and provides an opportunity for researchers in the area of computer animation to meet, share ideas, and discuss emerging directions for the field. This year the Fifth SCA was co-located with the ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Conference in Los Angeles, California, and it was held just prior to the main conference.These proceedings contain 35 papers selected from 100 submissions. The exceptional quality of the submitted papers made the final selection very difficult. Each paper was reviewed by at least 4 members of the international program committee and external reviewers. The reviewing process was double blind. As in the previous year, the process included a discussion phase during which all reviewers of a paper could discuss it anonymously on-line. We believe that the discussions helped the reviewers to improve the quality of their evaluations. The accepted papers cover a variety of topics, including motion capture and editing, faces and hair, deformable models, fluids, natural phenomena, artificial intelligence for animation, motion planning and crowds, interfaces and interactive techniques, rigging and hands, non-photorealistic animation and compression, performance animation and motion quality.The Symposium continues to accept posters and demos that present promising work in progress. This year we added a special session to the Symposium in which the authors of posters gave a short presentation of their work. There was also be a reception during which the posters were on display and their authors were available for discussions. In addition to the posters that were submitted, we also invited several promising papers that were not accepted to the papers track to be presented as posters.