The 24th annual Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) will take place in Vancouver, Canada, from August 8 to August 10, 2024.

SCA is the premier forum for presenting innovations on the theory, software, and technology of computer animation. The conference is a focused and intimate gathering of researchers and practitioners working on all aspects of time-based phenomena. Its single track program features paper sessions, poster presentations, panel discussions, and keynote talks. Plus its emphasis on community interaction makes SCA the best venue to exchange research results, get inspired, and initiate collaborations.

We invite submissions of original, high-quality papers on computer animation, broadly defined as computation dealing with time-varying phenomena. Papers will be submitted to the Proceedings of the ACM in Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (PACMCGIT) journal and undergo two rounds of review. Accepted papers will appear in the PACMCGIT issue on SCA 2025, and authors of accepted papers will present their work at the conference.

The conference topics include:

    2D, 3D, and N-D animation systems
    Autonomous agents
    Clothing animation and simulation
    Computational design of animated systems
    Expressive motion / communication
    Generative and morphable models
    3D and 4D motion modeling
    Learned character control
    Facial animation
    Feature learning of motions, faces, body shapes and hand gestures
    Foundation models for animation
    Group and crowd behavior
    Interactive computer graphics
    Intuitive interfaces for creating and editing animations
    Mathematical foundations of animation
    Methods of control and artistic direction of simulations
    Machine learning techniques for animation
    Multimodal techniques for animation
    Modeling and simulation of natural phenomena
    Nature in motion (natural phenomena, plants, clouds, etc.)
    New time-based art forms on the computer
    Novel time-varying phenomena
    Perceptual metrics of animation
    Physical realism / measuring the real world for animation
    Physical simulation
    Fluid animation and simulation
    Planning / learning / optimization for animation
    Real-time and interactive methods
    Camera control methods for computer animation
    Sound and speech for animation
    ... as well as related problems in robotics game development, human-computer interaction, simulation visualization, computer vision and others.

SCA welcomes all kinds of contributions that advance the field of computer animation. This includes new and improved algorithms, but also:

    New datasets, or carefully and thoughtfully designed (collections of) datasets based on previously available data
    Advanced practices in data collection and curation
    Benchmarks and benchmarking tools
    Perceptual studies
    Experimental studies
    Material measurements
    Systems
    Hardware
    Theoretical foundations
    New promising approaches that do not yet achieve state-of-the-art performance