Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games

Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games

Welcome to the home of the well-established series of SIGGRAPH courses, covering late-breaking work and advances in real-time computer graphics for games!

This course was first presented in SIGGRAPH 2006 in Boston, MA.

Since then, now two decades, we have continued bringing you the state-of-the-art techniques from the game development community, as well as innovative graphics methods and forward-looking research with the emphasis on practical implementations.

Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games endures because it’s more than a technical session - it’s a living time capsule of the state of real-time rendering. Every year, it brings together the visionaries, the tinkerers, the optimists who believe that you can push one more millisecond, one more polygon, one more photon.

This program is not just the victories of innovation or the pragmatic constraints that make those breakthroughs production-worthy in the most demanding software pipelines we know: video games. Advances dives deeper. It explores limitations, surfaces intuition, and shares the tradeoffs behind the choices. That spirit of honest, rigorous storytelling is what helps our community grow—not only by learning from what worked, but from what didn’t. We talk openly about what didn’t work—and why. That culture of shared exploration is what makes Advances meaningful: it’s a place where we all learn together, not just from success, but from the honest, hard-earned lessons too. It’s a community built on generosity of sharing the learning, together.

It’s a celebration of curiosity made concrete.

The presentations in the later Advances years are now available on Advances in Real-Time Rendering YouTube channel

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SIGGRAPH 2025, Vancouver, BC, Canada
August 2025