Job Placement
Yiran Xu (MFA, Animation and Digital Arts 2010) and Kayzin Pooniwala (MFA, Animation and Digital Arts 2010) earned an apprenticeship at Lucasfilm Animation (Singapore).
Franklin DelGado is completing an internship at Lucasfilm Animation (Singapore), and Tzu-Yin Weng Wendy is interning at Oddcast (NYC).
Yang Liu secured an internship on an animation by Isaac Kerlov (Singapore).
Kai-Sen Chan is an intern at BULKY Animation Studio (Taiwan).
Faculty
Jean-Marc Gauthier is currently designing a new virtual reality simulator that recreates the spatial experience of a pedestrian crossing a street intersection. The viewer stands in the center of a 360-degree screen with projections of interactive 3D animations of pedestrians, street traffic and sound environments. The parameters of the environment can be changed in real time. This research project is funded by a grant from the National Eye Institute. The innovative project will allow researcher to evaluate the viewer’s eyes responses in relationship with their decision making process. The research team includes Lei Liu (PI), Kent Higgins, Lisa Moses and Gauthier.
Gauthier said "Creating digital entertainment using Interactive animations, virtual worlds and projections on multiple screens has been the focus of my work for a long time. This new research offers the opportunity to use my skills in a more real-life application bringing viewers inside 3D interactive animations in an immersive way. For me this is a dream come true."
Patrick Smith is featured in Animators Unearthed, A Guide to the Best of Contemporary Animation, a new book by Chris Robinson.
Welcome New Faculty Members
Thomas Thesen
B. Mark Seabrook
Michael Thompson
Siggraph 2010
Tisch Asia Animation and Digital Arts MFA program will be at Siggraph 2010 in Los Angeles. Two talks “Using motion capture at NYU Tisch Asia, a graduate animation program in Singapore” and “Creating motion capture scenes using 2D storyboards” will be hosted on 07/28 and 07/29 by Organic Motion, a leading innovator of computer vision and motion capture systems. organicmotion.com/company
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