This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2007, held in Kyoto, Japan in June 2007 jointly with the Visual Computing / Graphics and CAD symposium, which takes place in Osaka, Japan.

The 15 revised full papers and 13 revised poster papers and demos presented were carefully reviewed and selected from about 80 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on interaction, lifelike characters and affective computing, knowledge-based graphics generation and interaction, visualization and graphics algorithms, as well as posters and demos.