Join the SIGGRAPH 2026 LA Unreal Users Group at The Collab, a unique gathering place for Los Angeles’ artists, filmmakers, developers, and creative technologists exploring the future of real-time storytelling.

IEL founders Daniel Urbach and Blake Baxter reveal how memory, personality, and context create authentic AI-powered digital beings. Sponsored by CG Pro, Volinga, and CenterGrid. Click to find out more and RSVP

Our proposed panel, From Cloud to Set, brings together three of the industry’s most visionary filmmakers, technologists, and VFX innovators to explore how the production landscape is rapidly evolving.

Adaptive workflows, AI-native tools, and cloud pipelines are converging into a single seamless ecosystem, transforming how stories are developed, produced, and delivered across the global filmmaking pipeline.

Step into Reallusion AI Studio live. Watch 3D character previs transform into cinematic AI renders on our AI VFX cloud, with consistent characters, lifelike performances, and real-time control.

Presented by Kai Deneve

Join us at the 2026 VES LA SIGGRAPH Party as 450 of the world’s most passionate VFX creatives come together to celebrate the artists behind today’s biggest productions.

After a year of making the impossible possible, it’s time to unwind, reconnect, and celebrate together.

Virtual Studio is proud to sponsor the night.

Food and drinks are on us.
You earned it.

Join Ichio from Cloud Atlas Tokyo at the SIGGRAPH booth to explore Japan’s fast-growing cloud compute market for VFX and its influence on global production.

Discover how cloud infrastructure, AI workflows, and Virtual Studio technologies are enabling real-time collaboration and helping shape the future of creative production worldwide.

Chaos Arena Cloud unveils a breakthrough in global virtual production.

This presentation reveals the results of a successful real-time cloud production test connecting:

• a Chaos Arena server inside a U.S. VFX datacenter
• a live operator in the Netherlands
• and a virtual production stage in Bulgaria

Discover how real-time ray tracing, Gaussian Splats, USD workflows, and advanced CenterGrid cloud infrastructure enabled cinematic-quality collaboration across continents in real time.

HCG is helping drive the growth of motion capture, virtual production, and cloud-based creative workflows across Latin America through partnerships with CenterGrid and Virtual Studio.

Discover how cloud workstations, real-time collaboration, and tools from Vicon and Faceware are helping LATAM creators connect, collaborate, and compete on a global stage.

Kim Landers from GRAiL joins our Women in AI booth session on AI, storytelling, and creative workflows.

Join founder Sam Gebhardt for an inspiring session on how The Magic Ride Foundation is transforming pediatric care through immersive VR experiences, 8K stereoscopic films, and real-time cloud-powered production workflows.

Discover how the team creates magical ride experiences for children in hospitals, delivering moments of joy, comfort, and escape during difficult times. Using VR headsets, dome projection systems, and cloud GPU rendering, they produce studio-quality immersive content at scale.

Where storytelling, technology, and compassion meet — and healing meets imagination.

Join CGPro co-founder Jackie for an inside look at how the CGPro AI Film Course is redefining modern storytelling.

This session highlights how emerging artists are using AI-driven workflows, cloud tools, and creative pipelines to develop original film projects from concept to final output.

Jackie will share insights from the program and showcase student-created films developed through the course and attendees will also learn how hands-on training is shaping the next generation of creators.

The session explores how AI production techniques are being applied in real-world creative environments and how CGPro is building accessible pathways into the future of filmmaking.

Meet the Bolt team as they discuss their Zeus GPU, engineered for ultra-fast path tracing. Learn more about real-time cinematic lighting and rendering breakthroughs powering next-generation VFX, virtual production, and high-fidelity creative workflows in the cloud.

Can artists use professional pen tablets in the cloud? See a live Xencelabs tablet connected to a CenterGrid Virtual Studio workstation through Parsec Enterprise Relay. Experience real-time pen pressure, responsiveness, and cloud-powered creativity without compromise.

Step into the future of storytelling with women leaders in AI as they explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping film, advertising, animation, and digital media.

Through real-world projects and open discussion, this SIGGRAPH panel highlights how creativity, technology, and collaboration are converging. Panelists will share practical workflows and emerging tools already transforming production today.

The session centers on empowering the next generation of artists and technologists to lead in an AI-driven creative era where imagination and intelligent tools define the future of storytelling.