Southeast Michigan ACM SIGGRAPH (SEMAFX)
Randy Rockafellow
Past Chair
248-930-3911(mobile)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:



Metro Detroit Group Markets Pure Michigan Creative Talent at SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Convention

Detroit, MI, August 3, 2007 — The Southeast Michigan Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH (SEMAFX) is promoting Michigan's creative technology Community for the third year in a row at SIGGRAPH the largest international computer graphics conference in the world being held August 5^th through 9^th 2007 in San Diego,CA. This marketing campaign follows last year’s successful “Great American Road Trip” where a motor coach covered in advertisements for Michigan creative companies and organizations along with the slogan “Digital Artists Onboard” toured the conference area. This year’s campaign will feature T-shirts with the slogans “Get Pure Talent” and “Get Raw Talent” and websites www.getpuretalent.com and www.getrawtalent.com.

At SIGGRAPH, we want the outstanding message to be that you can count on the creative companies and talent in Michigan to perform the work. Michigan has a strong creative technology community can handle a variety of projects ranging from film and video, animation, audio, architectural visualization, video game development, multimedia, motion capture, mobile media, and Internet development. However, many people, including those in Michigan, don't realize how much we have to offer and we have the potential right now for significant growth to be internationally known as a creative TechTown.

There will be many Michigan Creative Technology ambassadors providing information and news about Michigan's capabilities. Those who are unable to attend will have an opportunity to share the experience through the podcasts SEMAFX will be creating using G-cast enabled technology during the San Diego conference by visiting: www.semafx.com. Conference attendees will receive T-shirts and buttons featuring the campaign’s slogans.

Supporters of the campaign welcome the opportunity to help build awareness of Michigan's creative technology community and how it can fuel Michigan's economic recovery. These companies include: Chrysler Group, Armstrong White, RTT, LaDriere, Right Hemisphere, Bunkspeed, Badittoi Photographic, Detroit Creative Group, Npower Software and Autodesk.

If you would like learn more please visit www.semafx.com, www.getpuretalent.com, www.getrawtalent.com or contact:

Randy Rockafellow
SE Michigan ACM SIGGRAPH (SEMAFX) – Past Chair
248-930-3911(mobile)
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SEMAFX
The ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter of Southeast Michigan (SEMAFX) is a non-profit computer graphics community of creative professionals, teachers, students and hobbyists involved in the digital arts and related media fields. SEMAFX's mission is to enhance the local digital arts industry, encourage communication, educate and network the workforce, and increase awareness of the capabilities of Michigan's digital creative resources. Since its inception in 1998, SEMAFX has held monthly events, supported charities and scholarships, mentored kids, and built relationships with area colleges and digital media and technology companies. Members gather at events to share ideas, tips and techniques- and to discuss issues facing our local and national markets. SEMAFX was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation from the mayor of Detroit for organizing the 2006 Creative Congress. For more info about SEMAFX visit: www.semafx.com.

SIGGRAPH 2007
Annual conference on computer graphics convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. The first SIGGRAPH conference was in 1974. The conference is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals, and has most recently been held in Boston. Past SIGGRAPH conferences have been held in Dallas, Boston, Seattle, New Orleans, San Diego and elsewhere across the United States.
The SIGGRAPH 2007 website is: www.siggraph.org/s2007

ACM SIGGRAPH
SIGGRAPH is the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, an interdisciplinary community interested in research, technology, and applications in computer graphics and interactive techniques. For more information about ACM SIGGRAPH, visit their Web site at www.siggraph.org.

ACM
Founded in 1947, ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology. The world¹s first and largest educational and scientific computing society, ACM serves a membership of more than 80,000 computing professionals in more than 100 countries. www.acm.org

Chrysler Group

The Chrysler Group is leading the development of Automotive CGI with the use of their virtual fleet. They are launching a website, www.thecgizone.com to extol the virtues and significant cost savings of repurposing their digital assets for a variety of marketing and branding applications.

Armstrong White

Armstrong White is a visual communications company that has evolved from a high-end retouching and special effects group to a brand driven design studio to one of the most capable visual 3D entities in the country. They specialize in rendering reality out of automotive 2D and 3D assets and digital landscapes for print, broadcast and interactive mediums.

Realtime Technology AG (RTT)

Realtime Technology's main activities arise directly from the use of virtual reality applications in industry for the automobile, aviation and engineering core markets.

LaDriere

LaDriere is a CG studio providing retouching and 3D CGI and animation.

Detroit Creative Group
The Detroit Creative Group seeks to provide marketing based multimedia solutions by focusing on building strong brands and relationships with customers, employees, and partners. For more information visit: ww.detroitcreative.com

Right Hemisphere
Right Hemisphere is the leading provider of enterprise product communication and collaboration solutions enabling manufacturers to optimize their global product development launch and support processes

Bunkspeed
Bunkspeed was founded in November of 2002 with the philosophy that visualization software should be easy to learn and simple to use, which they have delivered in UDRIVE. They are privately owned and financed.  At the core, they are a passionate software development team dedicated to solving specific challenges in the automotive design industry. 

Badittoi Photographic
Badittoi Photographic has over 30 years of experience shooting custom photos and providing finished photographic imagery for custom publishers, design firms and magazines. Badittoi Photographic provides images to the creative world to satisfy the insatiable appetite for quality custom photographic eye candy.

Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc., a Fortune 1000 company, is a software and services company for the manufacturing, infrastructure, building, media and entertainment and wireless data services fields.