Since it’s quite a long time after GDC 2011 and I never found the time to do a proper conference report, I thought I’d at least do a link roundup.<\/p>\n
First, the GDC Vault<\/a> has a Free Section with many presentation slides<\/a>. Video for most talks is behind a paywall, but several notable talks have freely available video:<\/p>\n There are several other talks with free video, mostly sponsored by companies such as Intel and NVIDIA.<\/p>\n The rest of this post will cover talks where the authors or their companies have made materials available outside the Vault – I haven’t checked, but I suspect there is a fair bit of overlap with the free section in the Vault.<\/p>\n Presentations from the “Advanced Visual Effects with DirectX 11” tutorial day:<\/p>\n These are hosted on the AMD conference presentations page<\/a>, which also has a few other AMD presentations:<\/p>\n Presentations from the “Physics for Game Programmers” tutorial day (these are only some of the presentations, it looks like the rest are up on the Vault’s free section):<\/p>\n Presentations from the Technical Artist Bootcamp can be found here<\/a> – links to individual presentations follow:<\/p>\n DICE<\/a> had quite a few presentations at GDC, many related to real-time rendering. All DICE presentations can be found on their publications page<\/a>.<\/p>\n One DICE presentation of particular interest, Approximating Translucency for a Fast, Cheap and Convincing Subsurface Scattering Look (Colin Barre-Brisebois)<\/a> can also be found on the author’s blog<\/a>, along with an addendum<\/a>.<\/p>\n NVIDIA<\/a> also had a good number of presentations, to be found on their GDC 2011 page<\/a>. An especially notable one (jointly presented with covered the Epic “Samaritan” demo, intended both to show off the Unreal Engine’s DX11 feature set, and to set a quality bar for the makers of next-generation consoles (the demo was shown on a machine with three GeForce GTX 580 cards connected via SLI, so definitely a “futuristic” system). Online material for the Samaritan demo includes the presentation slides<\/a>, video of the demo<\/a>, and some additional technical details<\/a> on the underlying technology.<\/p>\n Intel also has a dedicated web page for their GDC 2011 presentations<\/a>. Two especially interesting ones covered Order-Independent Transparency<\/a> and Dynamic Resolution Rendering<\/a>. Additional organizations with multiple talks at GDC included AutoDesk<\/a> and Khronos<\/a>.<\/p>\n The talk Mega Meshes: Modeling, Rendering and Lighting a World Made of 100 Billion Polygons (Ben Sugden & Michal Iwanicki, Lionhead)<\/a> presented some unique rendering technology they developed for the (cancelled) game, Milo & Kate. Additional online materials include a video<\/a> and a second video<\/a>.<\/p>\n Other rendering talks with online materials include Anti-Aliasing From a Different Perspective (Dmitry Andreev, LucasArts)<\/a>, Practical Occlusion Culling on PS3 (Will Vale, Second Intention)<\/a>, Normal Offset Shadows (poster by Daniel Holbert, High Moon)<\/a>, HTML5 and Other Modern Browser Game Tech (Vincent Scheib, Google)<\/a>, and several presentations<\/a> that Wolfgang Engel (Confetti) gave at the Intel booth.<\/p>\n Two animation talks also have online materials: The Animation of Halo: Reach: Raising the Bar (Joe Spataro & Tam Armstrong, Bungie)<\/a>, and An Automated Pipeline for Generating Run-Time Rigs (Adam Mechtley, Candlelight Interactive)<\/a>, as well as three non-graphics engineering talks: Forensic Debugging: How To Autopsy, Repair, and Reanimate a Release-built Game (Elan Ruskin, Valve)<\/a>, I Shot You First! Gameplay Networking in Halo: Reach (David Aldridge, Bungie)<\/a> (there is also a much smaller file without video<\/a>), and Message Queuing on a Large Scale (Jon Watte, IMVU)<\/a>.<\/p>\n For the sake of completeness, I’ll also list the design, production, and business presentations and videos I found online:<\/p>\n If you find any other presentations online, please put a link in the comments to this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since it’s quite a long time after GDC 2011 and I never found the time to do a proper conference report, I thought I’d at least do a link roundup. First, the GDC Vault has a Free Section with many presentation slides. 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