Behind the Scenes at SIGGRAPH Asia’s REAL TIME LIVE

Behind the Scenes at SIGGRAPH Asia’s REAL TIME LIVE

For the first time, Real Time Live (RTL) was included in SIGGRAPH Asia. The event was slightly different from the main North American conference as the event was by invitation and the curated content included some projects that had already been shown in Vancouver. The...
Google Earth Studio Is A New Animation Tool

Google Earth Studio Is A New Animation Tool

While many people already use Google Earth imagery in animated content by capturing screen recordings, Earth Studio is a keyframe-based tool that allows animators to take full advantage of Google’s massive store of satellite and aerial imagery. This data includes not...
Drexel Launches the Immersive Research Lab

Drexel Launches the Immersive Research Lab

        Drexel Launches the Immersive Research Lab Launched in 2018 in the heart of the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design’s URBN Center, the Immersive Research Lab (or IRL) is a lab space dedicated to the study and research of immersive...
Alumni Work on The Gifted & Fear of the Walking Dead

Alumni Work on The Gifted & Fear of the Walking Dead

Drexel Alumni Eric Hiller and Jay Hiller have been busy working at AlkemyX in New York City on visual effects for a variety of television series, including “The Gifted” and “Fear of the Living Dead”. Additional series work one or both alumni...
Disney Directors Visiting Drexel

Disney Directors Visiting Drexel

JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL PRESENTATION AND Q&A WITH DISNEY DIRECTORS RICH MOORE & PHIL JOHNSTON! PLEASE RSVP! … Bit.ly/RalphPhilly Wednesday, November 7th 7:00 PM Drexel University LeBow Building GHALL 031 3220 Market St. Please join us for a special...
Alumni work on Red Dead Redemption II

Alumni work on Red Dead Redemption II

Disney’s 2016 live action feature film The Jungle Book features the work of Drexel Alumnus: Glenn Winters (2013) — PREVISUALIZATION SUPERVISOR & MOTION CAPTURE SPECIALIST: Rockstar Games...
SideFX ships Houdini 17

SideFX ships Houdini 17

Houdini 17 Banshee introduces powerful new physical simulation tools such as the Vellum multi-solver for fast cloth, a new organic white water solver and material-based destruction workflows. In addition, significant enhancements can be found in Houdini’s interactive...
Bell Designs 10 Times Faster With VR

Bell Designs 10 Times Faster With VR

Bell CEO Mitch Snyder challenged his team to find a way to bring their products to market much faster. He created the Innovation Team to “explore ideas ahead of their time and advance design and experience to focus on emerging technologies.” Ultimately, the team...
VR Cycle Ride Project

VR Cycle Ride Project

          The VR Cycle Ride is a project that was built by Drexel students and faculty as an assignment aimed at motivating and inspiring creative thinking, collaborative problem solving, and practice of cross disciplinary teamwork by...
2018 Student Work Sampler

2018 Student Work Sampler

Animation & Visual Effects Student work from the 2017-2018 academic year at Drexel University’s Digital Media Department in the Westphal College of Media Arts &...

WestphalAR

The Westphal AR App was developed by a Westphal student in our VR & Immerisve Media program as a way to add engaging, interactive, augmented reality content to the 2018 Westphal College Brochure. To use the app, download Westphal AR to your iOS or Android phone,...

Westphal AR Privacy

Westphal AR App Privacy The Westphal AR App was developed by a Westphal student in our VR & Immerisve Media program as a way to add engaging, interactive, augmented reality content to our 2018 college brochure. The app uses the Vuforia development library to...
Disney’s StudioLAB Advances the Art of Storytelling

Disney’s StudioLAB Advances the Art of Storytelling

From Walt Disney’s early hand-drawn, animated cartoon, Steamboat Willie, to the live-action feature The Jungle Book and the interactive experience Coco VR, The Walt Disney Studios has spent nearly 100 years transporting audiences to new and stunning worlds using...
ACELab 2018 Episode 04: VUZE Software & Tips

ACELab 2018 Episode 04: VUZE Software & Tips

Click here to visit ACELab360 page for a complete listing of all episodes Humaneyes US Product Manager Jim Malcom visits the ACELab studio and walks through using the VR Studio software that comes with the VUZE camera for producing 360-Stereo video with Fatma Ozen....
Digital Media Showcase 2018

Digital Media Showcase 2018

Digital Media Showcase 2018 Wednesday, June 13 Showcase 2pm-4pm Expo 4pm-6pm International House Ibrahim Theater 3701 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA The live-streamed copy of the showcase event is now online on YouTube: Digital Media Showcase 2018 Livestream Get ready...
Alumni Work on Solo: A Star Wars Story

Alumni Work on Solo: A Star Wars Story

The Ron Howard directed feature film Solo: A Star Wars Story features the work of Drexel Alumni: Greg Ruane (Class of 2011) – Pipeline Engineer: Tippett Studio James Spadafora (2012) — Technical Director:...
DUVR Elections & Beat Saber

DUVR Elections & Beat Saber

DUVR Elections & Beat Saber! Thursday May 31st, 9 pm URBN Center – Room 2A11 Hello! We’ll be holding elections for 2018-19 DUVR board member positions. Also playing the smash hit VR game Beat Saber! You can nominate anyone (yourself included) BEFORE WED....
Alumni Work on Avengers Infinity War

Alumni Work on Avengers Infinity War

Marvel Studios 2018 feature film Avengers Infinity War features the work of Drexel alumni: Dan Bodenstein (2010) … Effects Lead: Method Studios Melissa Cell (2012) — Technical Director: Digital Domain Simon Littlejohn (2012) — FX...