Birthday:
October 20
About
When and how have you participated at SIGGRAPH Conferences? (exhibits, talks, panels, performance, screenings). OK if you have not participated.
I have participated in some way in SIGGRAPH nearly every year since 1995, and in 3 SIGGRAPH Asia conferences. I have taught classes, organized panels, volunteered through the Local Chapters and am a Pioneer SIGGRAPH Member. Several works I have contributed to have screened at SIGGRAPH (not in the ET) and I have served in the past as an Art Show Juror, event producer and exhibit contributor with Disney, ArtByte Magazine and Pratt Institute in the past.
Are you a member of ACM SIGGRAPH?
Yes
Are you on a SIGGRAPH Committee?
No
Have you shown art in any SIGGRAPH Art Shows?
Yes
If you answered yes to the above question, please list year(s)
2002
Have you shown in any SIGGRAPH Animation Screenings?
Yes
If you answered yes to the above question, please list year(s)
See SIGGRAPH Participation above
What countries do you work in?
USA
Short Bio
Steve Rittler is an independent designer, animator, illustrator, and educator. Steve graduated from Philadelphia’s University of the Arts (Honors B.F.A., Illustration, 1990; Animation minor) and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute (M.F.A. with Distinction, Computer Graphics Animation, 2000). He has animated, storyboarded and modeled for many companies in NYC, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, including Disney Interactive. Films featuring his work as an animator/designer have been screened and awarded nationally and internationally, including the Annecy Animated Film Festival in France, and his own animated MFA Thesis film, Nor Gloom of Nyght, has been screened at the International SIGGRAPH Conference, The first Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium and at BUDi 2005 in Seoul, Korea. Steve has served on the NYC ACM SIGGRAPH Local Chapter Board of Directors from 2000 to 2015 and has presented courses on animation production at the 2003 and 2004 International SIGGRAPH Conferences in San Diego and Los Angeles, and at the 2008 SIGGRAPH Asia Conference in Singapore. He served as chair of NYC ACM SIGGRAPH MetroCAF 2006, the New York Metropolitan Area College Computer Animation Festival, was Co-Chair of MetroCAF 2014 and was the principal designer, illustrator and animator for these festivals. He holds an Associate Professorship in Animation at the William Paterson University Department of Art, is Animation Instructor and MFA Thesis Group Leader at the School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Arts Department. He has his own company, Muse Machine Productions, is currently in production on two animated films, Monster Box and The Big Headache, and plays bass and sings in a rock band.
