Guest Events & Presentations
Visit from Final Pixel’s Monica Hinden & Jim Rider
Join us Friday, April 29 at 1pm in the URBN 349 Screening Room for an in depth introduction and discussion on Virtual Production!
Co-Directors Paul Briggs & John Ripa Present
Special Presentation by Disney Animation Studio’s “Raya and the Last Dragon” Co-Directors Paul Briggs & John Ripa February 24…
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Screening with Sound Designer David Acord of Skywalker Sound
Thursday, November 15, 7PM URBN Annex Screening Room
Disney Directors Visiting Drexel
Join us, 11/7 at 7:00 PM in LeBow Building GHALL 031…
Q&A with Unity VR/AR Evangelist Dan Miller
URBN Center – Room 239 (Screening Room)
Q & A With Girish Balakrishnan
Friday, April 6th, 12:30-1:30, URBN ANNEX Screening Room.
Jason Katz Visit, Nov. 15
Pixar Story Supervisor for “Coco” visits Drexel.
Guest Speaker: Graham D. Clark
Stereoscopic expert who’s worked on films from Marvel Studios, Star Wars and more visits to present on stereoscopic production processes.
2017 Commencement Keynote Speaker John Knoll
This year’s commencement speaker: John Knoll, co-creator of Photoshop, COO of ILM and VFX Supervisor.
Live Q & A With Girish Balakrishnan
Join us for a live Q & A session with notable Drexel alumni Girish Balakrishnan.
Fred Seibert Visit & Talk
Tuesday,2/21 2pm-3:30pm in the ANNEX Screening Room
Bill Schwab Visit Nov. 4
Disney Characters Art Director for Moana visits Drexel.
Deadpool Screening w/Will Muto
October 6 at 7pm followed by alumnus Will Muto Q&A
Zootopia Directors: Visit and Q&A
Directors Rich Moore & Byron Howard visit Drexel
Anita Sarkeesian on Gaming Culture
Anita Sarkeesian visits Drexel on Feb. 19
How to Train Your Dragon Screening
How to Train Your Dragon Screening with Character TD, Jeff Light
Gladiator Screening
Gladiator Screening with VFX Supervisor John Nelson! 7pm Nov. 12.
DreamWorks Visit & Presentations
DreamWorks presentations at 11am & 1pm Nov. 11.
Pixar Visit & Presentation
Presentation by Pixar Character Designer Matt Nolte Nov. 5.
Interstellar Presentation: April 24
VFX Supervisor Jeff Jasper of New Deal Studios presents.
Pixar Visit: April 17
Join us April 17th at 4pm for a presentation by Pixar Sets Art Director, Dan Holland. Doors open at 3:30pm at the Bossone Center Mitchell Auditorium, 3140 Market Street.
Carla Diana on Robot Design
Robot design talk presented by special guest speaker and prolific designer Carla Diana.
Rob Stauffer presents Houdini
Visiting Visual Effects Artist and Supervisor Rob Stauffer presents Houdini this Friday, Nov. 7 in the Urban Center Annex Screening Room beginning at 10am. Houdini is one of the the most powerful and advanced tools the Digital Media Department licenses for use on our...
Lego Movie Video Conference & Screening
“The Lego Movie” (2014) on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 6:30pm in URBN 239 Screening Room. Special guest, Rob Coleman, Head of Animation for Animal Logic.
Garret Brown
Garret Brown visit Feb. 4 @3:30 in Annex Screening Room
Acting For Animators
On Friday, February 21st, Ed Hooks will be presenting his Acting for Animators masterclass.
Amol Sathe Campus Visit
Drexel Digital Media alumnus Amol Sathe (BS’06/MS’07) will be on campus to discusses his experience at Disney including his work as Lighting Supervisor on the Academy Award-winning Paperman and the new film Frozen as well as his work on past films including Bolt and...