Moving Mobile Graphics

Moving Mobile Graphics is a recurring half-day course at SIGGRAPH providing a technical introduction to the state of the art in mobile graphics from practitioners at the forefront. It ran at SIGGRAPH 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020 and is back again for 2024. This page acts as the collected course notes and links to all Moving Mobile Graphics-related materials. Scroll down to find the talks you want.

If you any feedback or suggestions for future course content please get in touch! Email Sam Martin, Jesse Barker or Peter Hodges. Or ping them on twitter (@palgorithm).

Moving Mobile Graphics - SIGGRAPH 2024

SIGGRAPH Session link, Thursday, 1 August 20242:00pm - 5:15pm MDT, Location: Bluebird 3A

Great to be back again, with Jesse Barker moderating. This year we look at how physically based shading, global illumination and - a first for this year - neural graphics techniques can be brought to mobile. Additionally we will discuss modernisation of graphics stacks and the benefits that can be derived from this.

Recordings of all talks are now available on ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3664475.3664528 

(At the time of writing, the ACM DL has the incorrect course name, "Mobile GPU 101", but the full recording of all talks is available.)

Title	Presenter	Slides/notes
Welcome & Introduction	Jesse Barker (Unity)	3704.siggraph_mmg_2024_intro.pdf
Mobile Graphics 101	Ralph Potter (Samsung)	3858.siggraph_mmg_2024_Mobile101.pdf
Rebuilding the Rendering Foundation for Live Games	Timo Heinäpurola (Supercell)	5280.siggraph_mmg_2024_Rewriting_The_Rendering_Foundation_For_Live_Games_ForStage_WithNotes.pdf
Mobile Neural Super Sampling	Liam O'Neil (Arm)	4186.siggraph_mmg_2024_mobile_nss-LiamONeil-v7-speakers_notes.pdf
Moving HypeHype towards Physically Based Rendering	Sebastian Aaltonen (HypeHype)	3225.siggraph_mmg_2024_HypeHype.pdf
SmartGI: Global Illumination with Space Voxelization on Mobile	Shun Cao (Tencent)	8358.siggraph_mmg_2024_SmartGI0722.pdf

Moving Mobile Graphics - SIGGRAPH 2020

Due to the ongoing pandemic this time we are going to be online! If you've ever struggled getting to SIGGRAPH this is certainly the year to give it a whirl. Our course will be one of the first to be broadcast along with live Q&A from 9am PST Monday 24th August. Check out the full SIGGRAPH program here: https://s2020.siggraph.org/full-program/

Update: the full course is now available to watch via YouTube or via the ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3388769.3407515. Slides and links to talk start times are below. 

During the broadcast there will be text chat Q&A followed by a live Q&A session with all the speakers at 12 noon PST. 

This year we welcome Jesse Barker (Unity) as our moderator.

Title	Presenter	Slides/notes	Video
Intro to Moving Mobile Graphics	Jesse Barker (Unity)	Annotated PDF	https://youtu.be/wOBCWZJq6zs
Mobile Graphics 101	Jesse Barker (Unity)	Annotated PDF	https://youtu.be/wOBCWZJq6zs?t=448
Vulkan on Mobile Done Right	Jose-Emilio Munoz-Lopez (Arm)	Annotated PDF	https://youtu.be/wOBCWZJq6zs?t=1838
Deferred Shading in Unity URP	Kay-Leng Chang (Unity)	PDF	https://youtu.be/wOBCWZJq6zs?t=3175
Large Voxel Landscapes on Mobile	Arseny Kapoulkine (Roblox)	PDF	https://youtu.be/wOBCWZJq6zs?t=5221
High Quality, High Performance Graphics in Filament	Romain Guy (Google)	Annotated PDF / PDF (just slides)	https://youtu.be/wOBCWZJq6zs?t=7576

Moving Mobile Graphics - SIGGRAPH 2018

This time we were in Vancouver and talks followed a broad theme of XR and rendering efficiency. 

Recordings of all talks are now available to view on the ACM Digital library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3214834.3214857 

Title	Presenter	Slides/notes
Intro to Moving Mobile Graphics	Sam Martin (Arm)	Slides
Mobile Graphics 101	Andrew Garrard (Samsung)	Slides, Slides (pptx)
Accelerating Mobile XR	Rob VanReenen (Qualcomm)	Slides
Analyzing Modern Rendering	Hans-Kristian Arntzen (Arm)	Slides
Dense Vision on Personal Devices	Victor Prisacariu (6D.ai / Oxford Vision Lab)	Slides
Maximizing Rendering Efficiency	Felipe Lira (Unity)	Slides
Preparing Android for XR	Jiwen Cai (Google)	Slides

Moving Mobile Graphics - SIGGRAPH 2016

Moving Mobile Graphics is a half-day course providing a technical introduction to the state of the art in mobile graphics from practitioners at the forefront. This year we look at mobile VR, best practices in real-time rendering, GPU compute for image processing, and recent advances in graphics APIs and rendering techniques.

Recordings of all talks are now available on the ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2897826.2927312 

Further details can be found on the event page. Here's this year's line up:

Speaker	Talk	Course notes
Sam Martin, ARM	Intro & Welcome	Download
Andrew Garrard, Samsung R&D UK	Best Practices for Mobile	Download
Marius Bjorge, ARM	Advanced Real-time Shadowing	Download
Jay Yun, Qualcomm	Video Processing with Mobile GPUs	Download
Cass Everitt, Oculus	Multiview Rendering for VR	Download
Niklas "Smedis" Smedberg, Epic	Efficient use of Vulkan on UE4 Mobile	Download
Ray Tran, CCP	Making EVE: Gunjack	Download

Moving Mobile Graphics - SIGGRAPH 2015

The course progresses from introductory material on mobile GPU design, software best practices and emerging technologies, to topic talks from development studios pushing the boundaries of mobile graphics.

The slides and course notes for each talk are linked from the table below. I recommend the notes versions, but note that Andrew Garrard talk has animations that are best seen in the slide ppt format.

Recordings of all talks are now available on the ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2776880.2787664

In addition, there are extended course notes on mobile software development, an extension of Andrew's talk. Further details can be found on the original event page.

Talk	Presenter	Materials	Notes
Optimizing PBR for Mobile	Renaldas Zioma, Unity	Slides	Notes
Frostbite on Mobile	Niklas Nummelin, EA Frostbite	Slides	Notes
Technology Driving Angry Birds Go!	Simon Benge, Exient	Slides	Notes
Bandwidth-Efficient Rendering	Marius Bjørge, ARM	Slides	Notes
Cramming Software onto Mobile GPUs	Andrew Garrard, Samsung R&D UK	Slides	Notes
Mobile Hardware and Bandwidth	Andrew Gruber, Qualcomm	Slides	Notes
Welcome & Introduction	Sam Martin, ARM	Course introduction

If you have any feedback or suggestions for future runs the course, these would be greatly appreciated. Please email Sam or contact him via twitter (@palgorithm)