Drexel Students Take Honors in Thrill Design Competition
Congratulations to Drexel Students Malcolm Bornmann, Amanda Schiavone, Kevin Carbone, Quincy Cuthbertson, and Panote Nuchprayoon. Together, they represented Drexel’s Theme Park Engineering and Design club at the 2019 Ryerson Invitational Thrill Design...
Alumni Work on Frozen 2
Disney’s 2019 animated feature film Frozen II features work by Drexel Alumni: Amol Sathe (2009) — Lighting Supervisor Joyce Le Tong (2010) — Effects Animator...
VR Use in Making The Mandalorian
How ‘The Mandalorian’ uses Epic’s Unreal Engine Disney+ is here, and one of its first big exclusive shows is Star Wars spinoff The Mandalorian. The series follows a mysterious bounty hunter as he takes on secretive job following the fall of the Empire. But outside of...
Alumni Work on The Mandalorian
The Disney+ Streaming series The Mandalorian features the work of Drexel Alumni: Will Muto (Class of 2009) – Pipeline Technical Director: Industrial Light &...
Alumni Work on Terminator Dark Fate
2019 Feature Film Terminator – Dark Fate features the work of Drexel Alumni… James Spadafora (2012) — Pipeline Technical Director: ILM...
The Best College Video Game in America at Drexel
In the spring term of 2018, a group of Drexel University students created a video game for a group project. Exactly a year later, that same game won the E3 College Game Competition, one of the biggest game contest for college-level game designers. And if all of that...
CHOP AR
The CHOP-AR “OPTIMISM” app was developed by students at Drexel University in partnership with the Children’s Hospital of Philadephia (CHOP). Patients at CHOP invented their own imaginary characters and worlds for them to live in. Using a variety of...
Alumni Work on Disney’s Lion King
Disney’s 2019 feature film The Lion King features the work of Drexel Alumni… Girish Balakrishnan (2013) — Virtual Production Supervisor: MPC...
SIGGRAPH 2019 Meetup in LA
Drexel SIGGRAPH Conference Gathering & Reception Wednesday, July 31, 6pm-8pm Pacific Time Tom’s Urban at L.A. Live 1011 S Figueroa Street Los Angeles, CA 90015 Join us in LA at Tom’s Urban in the to meet up with fellow Drexel students,...
Alumni work on Dark Phoenix
2019 feature film X-Men: Dark Phoenix features work by Drexel Alumni: Ian Hartman (2017) — Visual Effects Artist : MPC...
Animation Festival 2019
Saturday, June 15 Noon – 2pm Westphal Annex Screening Room 3401 Filbert Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Join us for the 2019 Animation Festival at the Westphal College of Media Art & Design’s Annex Screening Room on June 15, from noon to 2pm! This...
Digital Media Showcase 2019
IMMERSIVE VIDEO IS ONLINE! Thank you to everyone who attended the 2019 Digital Media Showcase event. To see it again, watch the immersive, 360° video recording of the event posted on YouTube: Sunday, June 2 Showcase 2pm-4pm Expo 4pm-6pm International House Ibrahim...
Alumni work on Godzilla: King of the Monsters
2019 feature film Godzilla: King of the Monsters features work by Drexel Alumni: Ian Hartman (2017) — Visual Effects Artist : MPC...
Video-Game Engines Help Create VFX on Movie Sets in Real Time
Over the past few years, ILM has been developing a suite of virtual production tools that embraces a range of real-time technologies. Dubbed Stagecraft, these tools encompass the entire production process, from early set design with the help of VR headsets to visual...
Alumni Work on Missing Link
LAIKA’s 2019 Feature Missing Link features the work of Drexel Alumni… Sara Ireland (2007) — Compositing Supervisor: LAIKA...
Realtime Raytracing with nVidia & Unity
Reality vs Illusion To show off new lighting technology, Unity took on the challenge to match a CG Unity-rendered BMW to a real BMW 8 Series Coupe that was filmed in a warehouse. The final project incorporated both the live interactive demo and a pre-rendered 4K...
$50million Philly E-Sports Arena Planned
Comcast is planning to build the arena to house the Philadelphia Fusion, the team they built to compete in the Overwatch League. The new venue, Fusion Arena, will span 60,000 square feet and seat up to 3,5000 guests. Comcast expects Fusion Arena to host a variety of...
Alumni on Panel Talk at SXSW
Alumnus Girish Balakrishnan (2012) talks on a panel at SXSW 2019. The panel focused on Simulating Reality: The Future of Film Production. Game engines have evolved into true “Reality Engines” and cinema will never be the same. The filmmaking tools of tomorrow stem...
Time VR Producing “The March”
The centerpiece of The March will be the first-ever digital performance of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, which will be produced using several state-of-the-art production technologies. The VR project will bridge the physical and the virtual – using...Quick Links
