TOG 45(6) Editorial

Welcome to the technical papers for SIGGRAPH Asia 2026. This year, we continued the trend of increasing numbers of submissions, with 1315 full submissions received (1313 papers entered the papers sort after two withdrawals), of which 322 were accepted for publication either as journal papers in the ACM Transactions on Graphics (94) or in the SIGGRAPH Asia conference proceedings (228). This number of submissions represents a 19% increase over the 1106 submissions made to SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 and a 12% increase even over the 1177 submissions received by SIGGRAPH 2026. This growth in the number of submissions showcases the increasing excitement and interest in the range of computer graphics applications from advances in rendering, modeling, animation, simulation and imaging, to newer advances in generative AI techniques for image and video generation. It also perhaps showcases the greater ease in performing research and putting together papers given the variety of newer AI tools and large language models available, which is an issue the community will need to continue to grapple with in coming years if the number of paper submissions grows faster than the available reviewer pool.