siggraph-workflow

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Use to plan a SIGGRAPH or SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Papers campaign backward from the deadline, covering the two annual cycles, the form-then-upload two-step submission, the rebuttal window, the Technical Papers Committee decision, conditional-accept second-stage revision, TOG camera-ready, and the in-person presentation.

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SIGGRAPH Workflow

SIGGRAPH runs on two cycles a year and a compressed single-round calendar with a journal-grade tail. Planning backward from the right deadline — and knowing which of the two conferences you are targeting — is the highest-leverage move. Dates below are the SIGGRAPH 2026 / SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 snapshots from resources/official-source-map.md; reopen the live Important Dates page for your cycle first.

The two cycles

Cycle	Deadline (approx.)	Conference	2026 instance
SIGGRAPH (North America)	~January	Summer	SIGGRAPH 2026, Los Angeles, 19-23 Jul 2026; form 15 Jan, upload 23 Jan 2026 (22:00 UTC)
SIGGRAPH Asia	~May	December	SIGGRAPH Asia 2026, Kuala Lumpur, 1-4 Dec 2026; Stage-2 paper 12 May, upload 13 May 2026
TOG direct	rolling	(no conference talk)	ScholarOne, outside the conference cycle — less common

A rejected paper is typically revised against the reviews and resubmitted to the next cycle, so the two deadlines form a natural half-year rhythm. Pick the cycle whose deadline your results can credibly meet — a rushed submission to the nearer deadline usually loses to a finished one at the next.

Backward plan from the upload deadline

T-0     Complete submission: PDF (or MD5) + supplemental video + representative image on Linklings
T-1wk   Submission form locks title/abstract/topics/ALL co-authors (earlier hard deadline)
T-2wk   Freeze results; render the final results video; clear rights on every frame/figure
T-4wk   Final comparisons + timings on stated hardware; ablations complete
T-8wk   Draft complete in acmart (>=2.16); teaser figure locked; internal reviews
T-12wk+ Method + implementation stable; baselines reproduced; scene set assembled

The two immovable graphics-specific costs are the results video (allow real production time) and faithful baseline comparisons (allow time to build and run others' code). Neither compresses well in the last week.

After submission

Reviews released -> you see the full set
Rebuttal window (~6 weeks post-deadline): <=1000 words, text only, address factual errors
Technical Papers Committee meeting: conditional accept / reject + track (Journal vs Conference)
[If conditional] make every required change -> second-stage committee verification
Camera-ready: TOG metadata, rights/DOI, final video, permanent code archive
Presentation: at least one author presents in person at the conference

Milestone checklist

Cycle chosen (SIGGRAPH vs SIGGRAPH Asia) and its exact UTC cutoffs confirmed on the live page.
Track intent chosen (dual-track vs Journal-only) — see siggraph-submission.
Baselines reproduced and running before the writing freeze.
Results video scoped and scheduled as a real production task.
Submission form completed (authors locked) before its earlier deadline.
Rebuttal plan ready the moment reviews land — see siggraph-author-response.
Conditional-accept change list tracked to the second-stage review.
Camera-ready TOG apparatus and permanent archive prepared — see siggraph-camera-ready.
Presenter and travel confirmed for in-person presentation.

Reverify each cycle

Both conferences' exact dates and UTC cutoffs, and whether the year runs the usual two editions.
The rebuttal window and length, the acmart revision, and the Conference-track page budget.
Whether review is single-blind or anonymized this cycle (待核实 for 2026 wording).

Output format

[Target cycle] SIGGRAPH 20XX (Jan) / SIGGRAPH Asia 20XX (May) / TOG-direct
[Countdown] weeks to form deadline / upload deadline
[Critical path] video production + baseline comparisons on track? yes/no
[Post-submission] rebuttal plan / conditional-accept list / camera-ready readiness
[Blockers] <ordered, dated to the UTC cutoff>