CDM x DigiBC @ SIGGRAPH 2025

About

August 13th 2025 - In 2025 Vancouver hosted SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques), a yearly conference for those working in various computer graphics related fields including Animation, Modeling, VFX, and Engineering. The Centre for Digital Media (CDM - a master's degree school focused on digital media) and tenant DigiBC (creative technology industry advocate association) worked together to host a mixer event in which we took part as our first semi-public (invite only) showing.

Our Contribution

We used DigiBC's 3 wall projection area to show our in-progress Exploded View station as well as a small artifact wall and digital twin showing 4 items representing a few of the starting points for Vancouver's game industry:

Ingenuity Works' software suite - representing the first educational software company
Nintendo's Club Nintendo trading cards - representing the first distribution/publishing company
Gravis' Game Pad - representing the first hardware developer
Sydney's Evolution and B.C.'s Quest For Tires' - representing the first game development company

Links

CDM Event Page
CreativeBC Article

Credits

CVGM Team

Core Team

Ryan Dunnison
Harsh Patankar
Emil Lorenzo Ibanez
Jose Jacinto Peralta Paras Jr.

Advisor

Dr. Dave Fracchia

Thank You to Everyone Who Put on the Event

CDM

Faculty

Dr. Dave Fracchia
Dan Scott
Jason Elliott
Dr. Rachel Ralph

Staff

Ted Gervan
Jannice Tran
Deven Cosma
Josh Miller
Lana Tang
Mary Lim
Michel Chang
Ryan Kelsc
Jackie Ip
Simran Bedi
Steven Suh

DigiBC

Event Staff

Debi Wong

To anyone else involved, please reach out if we missed you so we can add you.