Appendix 6

1

Research

Measurement Unit

Remarks

1(a)

Total No. of Publications /Creative Works
Prior to NTU: animation in interactive media, feature films and the first use of laser animation in projection

53

Consultant on real time character creation system Director and owner, CLONE3D LLC, (2002-2005)
Special Session presentation: 3DX Demo or Die, ACM SIGGRAPH Conference in Los Angeles (August 2004)
Arroyo Arts Collective 11th Annual Discovery Tour, art exhibition of virtual character (November 2004)

3 Independent artworks

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) (character modeler: Rhythm & Hues)
Flight of the Phoenix (2004) (3D modeler: Rhythm & Hues)
Around the World in 80 Days (2004) (modeler)
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) (modeler: Rhythm & Hues)
The Cat in the Hat (2003) (modeler) ... aka "Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat" - USA (complete title)
Elf (2003) (3D modeler: Rhythm and Hues)
The Rundown (2003) (modeler: Rhythm & Hues) ... aka "Welcome to the Jungle" - Australia, UK, USA (working title)
X2 (2003) (modeler) ... aka "X-Men 2" - Singapore (English title), USA (working title) ... aka "X-2" - USA (poster title) ... aka "X-Men 2: X-Men United" - USA (promotional title) ... aka "X2: X-Men United" - USA (promotional title)
Daredevil (2003) (modeler) ... aka "Daredevil: A Daring New Vision" - USA (director's cut (DVD title))

9 Live action feature films

Visual effects modeling of photo-realistic figures

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (modeler)
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) (modeler)  ... aka "Spirit" - USA (promotional title)
The Road to El Dorado (2000) (3D effects modeler: "Creation" sequence)
The Prince of Egypt (1998) (modeler/CG crowd animator)

4 Animated Feature Films
Dreamworks, SKG

Computer and traditional animation combined

FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) (assistant animator)
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987) (assistant animator)

2 Traditional animation

Alien Trilogy (1996), Playstation I game, the first use of motion capture in a console game, 8.0 IGN Rating, showcased at SIGGRAPH Conference Electronic Theater (1994)

1 First motion capture based console game

Tokyo Broadcasting System-Vision Technical and art director for television broadcast projects (1991-93)

Production work in Japan

Phillips Interactive, Character animation for children’s compact disc interactive titles, early interactive media (1988-90)

3 Electronic interactive media titles

Innovation and exploration at special venues: MFA work entitled Omeyotl which also premiered at an LA SIGGRAPH meeting at Art Center in Pasadena (1983)
Innovation and exploration at special venues: Laser artist/animator/director, 50 minutes projected on a huge stone wall of carvings of the Confederate Soldiers at Stone Mountain State Park, Georgia, “Wendy’s Dream” a short laser animated work (1986)
Innovation and exploration at special venues: Laser artist/animator, Large scale projected animation at EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World, Florida (1985
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Innovation and exploration at special venues: Laser artist/animator/director, Los Angeles Summer Olympics, projected billboard and entertainment imagery on the Federal Building in Westwood, California (1984)
Innovation and exploration at special venues: Laser artist/animator/director, Projected animation of the Confederate Soldiers coming to life, carved onto the a huge stone wall at Stone Mountain State Park, Georgia (1983)
Rock Concerts: Laser artist/animator, Neil Diamond’s (1984) world tour, Earth, Wind and Fire’s world tour (1983) and (1984) and Ozzy Osbourne: The Ultimate Ozzy (1986)
Broadway: Laser artist/animator, Sandy Duncan’s Peter Pan (1981)
Motion billboards: Laser artist/animator, the Sunset Strip Playboy building (1980)

8 new media

1(b)

No. of Publications/Creative Works during the review period and [for the last 3 years - 2007 to 2009]:

Last 3 yrs: 20
Last 1 yr: 9

Papers:

ACCEPTED: ISEA2010 RUHR the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Artist presentation Mark Chavez: Cinematics and Narratives
ACCEPTED: Chavez, M. Liu, L., Animation Evolution, The 22nd Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference, Edinburgh College of Art, 9-11th July 2010, "From Active to Proactive: New Opportunities for Real-time Simulation in Animation"
Chavez, M. Liu, L., CGAT -Computer Games and Allied Technology 2010 Best Research Paper Award, Cinematics and Narratives: Development of a Prototype System
Invited publication: Chavez, M., Liu L., " The Journal of Image and Cultural Contents,"  Specialization and Collaboration: Approach to Interdisciplinary Research in Contemporary Animation, (April 2010)
Invited publication: Chavez, M., "From the Animation Industry to Academia and Research" Computer Graphics (CG) Quarterly,  Volume 44, Number 1, ACM SIGGRAPH Publication, Visual Research, Evaluation and Assessment in the Age of Computer Graphics, (February 2010)
Chavez, M., Gregory, A., (2009). Voyage to the Age of the Dinosaurs: An Experiential Learning Situation With Undergraduates, Graduates, and Visiting Professionals. SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Educators Program
Chavez, M., Conradi, I., Liu, L., (2009). Cinematics and Narratives: Creating an Archetypal Character Based Experience. ISEA2009 – 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art
Jacobson, M. J., Kim, B., Miao, C., Shen, Z., & Chavez, M. (2009). Design perspectives for learning in virtual worlds In M. J. Jacobson & P. Reimann (Eds.), Designs for learning environments of the future: International perspectives from the learning sciences. Springer

Last 1 yr first authorship: 8

Exhibitions:

The Fifth annual “SNAP TO GRID: the UN-Juried Exhibit” Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, November 12-December 5, 2009, entered a digital print titled "CaN drawing".
Exhibition @ Gallery/Gallery EX KYOTO, Film co-Director, Producer

1(c)

No. in Top (or Tier 1) Publications during the review period and [for the last 3 years - 2007 to 2009] (No. as first/last authorship):

ACCEPTED: ISEA2010 RUHR the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Artist presentation Mark Chavez: Cinematics and Narratives
ACCEPTED: Mark Chavez and Liu Lin Yi, Animation Evolution, The 22nd Society for Animation Studies Annual Conference, Edinburgh College of Art, 9-11th July 2010, "From Active to Proactive:"New Opportunities for Real-time Simulation in Animation"
"From the Animation Industry to Academia and Research" Computer Graphics (CG) Quarterly,  Volume 44, Number 1' 05 February 2010, ACM SIGGRAPH Publication, Visual Research, Evaluation and Assessment in the Age of Computer Graphics
Chavez, M., Gregory, A., (2009). Voyage to the Age of the Dinosaurs: An Experiential Learning Situation With Undergraduates, Graduates, and Visiting Professionals. SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Educators Program
Mark Chavez, Ina Conradi, Liu Linyi,. (2009). Cinematics and Narratives: Creating an Archetypal Character Based Experience. ISEA2009 – 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art

Last 1 yr: 5

First Authorship last 1 yrs: 4

Michael J. Jacobson, Chunyan Miao, Beaumie Kim, Zhiqi Shen, Mark Chavez, "Research into Learning in an Intelligent Agent Augmented Multi-user Virtual Environment," Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 348-351, 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, 2008.
Hamilton, E. and Baylor, A. and Chavez, M. and Cole, R. and Digiano, C. and Hurford, A. and Jacobson, M. and Kapur, M. and Lee, L. and Lesh, R. and others, Assessment of Group and Individual Learning through Intelligent Visualization AGILeViz, Proceeding of the 2007 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Technology Rich Learning Contexts That Work, pg. 714, 2007, IOS Press
Chang, Y. Morales-Arroyo, M. A., Chavez, M. "Social Interaction with a conversational Agent – An Exploratory Study," IRMA, Journal of Information Technology Research, Vol. 1, Issue 3 (2007)

First Authorship last 3 yrs: 9

1(d)

Citation count (If available, provide for the preceding year for comparison.)

N/A

Exhibitions:

Last 1 yr: 2

The Fifth annual “SNAP TO GRID: the UN-Juried Exhibit” Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, November 12-December 5, 2009, entered a digital print titled "CaN drawing".
Exhibition @ Gallery/Gallery EX KYOTO, Film co-Director, Producer

Grants received. (List grants received, particularly competitive grants/ Value/ as PI or Co-PI) during  the review period and [for the last 3 years]:

1(h)

NRF2008IDM-IDM004-003, National Research Foundation/Media Development Authority, Cinematics and Narratives: creating stories within real-time visual toolsets (PI)
NRF2007IDM-IDM001-MOE-015, National Research Foundation/Ministry of Education, Intelligent Agent-Augmented Multi-user Virtual Environments: Research Into Designs For Learning Environments of the Future (Co-PI)
NRF2007IDM-IDM003-068, National Research Foundation/Ministry of Education, Serious Immersion and Embodied Learning: Traces of Dinosaurs in Earth System Science (Co-PI)

1.7mil SGD as PI

1.7mil SGD as co-PI

1.3mil SGD as co-PI

1(i)

Research Awards / Achievements and Impact during the review period and [for the last 3 years - 2007 to 2009]:

State Awards / Achievements
Elaborate Impact

CGAT -Computer Games and Allied Technology 2010 "Best Research Paper Award," Cinematics and Narratives: Development of a Prototype System, Chavez, M., Liu, L., (April 2010).

Best Research Paper Award

Special Recognition Award Yellow Ribbon Celebrating Second Chances Awards 2008, Saturday, 6 Sept 08, in recognition of work done with inmates in the Singapore prison system as part of “Creating Socially Relevant Content in the Digital Animation Form” in the Singapore Prison System

A National Award that resulted from research inspired work

Research Score x 5 (Weight)

(Rating of 1,2,3,4 or 5) x 5

2

Teaching

Measurement Unit

Remarks

2(a)

Teaching Index Score for the review period (Lectures and Tutorials)

Although the measurement taken for ANI390 taken during last semester is low, this class was the first Animation Seminar ANI 360 taught where almost every student produced a short film. I believe that the intense push I gave to them to produce resulted in the few under achieving students to rate the class poorly.

ANI390: 65.11

This class comes at a turning point for the student. Given it's technical yet artistic nature it overwhelm the student.

ANI220: 57.14

Mean Teaching Index Score for School

81.82

Teaching Score x 5 (Weight)

(Rating of 1,2,3,4 or 5) x 5

3

Service & Other Contributions

Measurement Unit

Remarks

3(a)

Academic Service, Administrative Workload, Service to External Community Organizations:

Eurographics 2009 Educators Program Juror
Computers & Graphics, An International Journal of Systems & Applications in Computer Graphics, reviewer for SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 Best Education Papers special issue
SIGGRAPH Asia 2009 Education Programme Paper Reviewer, Juror and Mentor

Academic Service

SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Education Programme Chair, Initiated with a small team of local and international academic and researchers SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 and the idea of subsequent and upcoming conferences
Short listed video entries for COMGRAPH 2006 - computer generated imagery and animated film festival run by Singapore SIGGRAPH.
Research+Art Exhibition DIME-ARTS 2006 – jurored selection for the art show http://www.dime2006.org/  Rangsit University, Bangkok, Thailand
Chaired short listing review committee for video entries for COMGRAPH 2005 - computer generated imagery and animated film festival run by Singapore SIGGRAPH.
External Examiner for Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of InfoComm Technology (ICT) for the period of 2009-2011

FYP Committee, Research Committee 2009-10, 2008-09

Administrative Workload

Reappointment Review Committee 2009-10, 2008-09

URECA Faculty Supervisor 2009-10, 2008-09

Volunteer Digital Animation teacher at the Kaki Bukit Center 2007-2008

Service to External Community Organizations

3(b)

Service Awards and Commendations received during the review period:
Special Recognition Award Yellow Ribbon Celebrating Second Chances Awards, in recognition of work done with inmates in the Singapore prison system as part of “Creating Socially Relevant Content in the Digital Animation Form” in the Singapore Prison System (2008)

National Award for community service (2008)

Service Score x 2 (Weight)

(Rating of 1,2,3,4 or 5) x 2

4

Total Score = Research +Teaching  + Service

12 (min)………..60 (max)