While I wait for E3 to start, I'm looking up the cool things coming out for SIGGRAPH and what kind of crazy cool technological advances are coming for 3D and animation and all that
This looks very cool 
Efficient GPU Rendering of Subdivision Surfaces usin...
Efficient GPU Rendering of Subdivision Surfaces usin... 
Computational Design of Reconfigurables (SIGGRAPH 20... I like stuff that solves problems for specific jobs, so useful for product designers
Rig Animation with a Tangible and Modular Input Devi... Rigging with a real physical object, this is AWESOME
Interactive Sketching of Urban Procedural Models - S... Sketching procedural urban models
SketchiMo: Sketch-based Motion Editing for Articulat... woah! sketching motion editing, thats really cool!
Efficient Dynamic Skinning with Low-Rank Helper Bone...
Mapping Virtual and Physical Reality - SIGGRAPH 2016 mapping virtual/physical world for VR so people stop bumping into stuff lol