The BMD Micro Studio Cameras are here!
Finally! We can begin. the BMD Micro Studio Cameras are now shipping and our first pair have arrived. Now, on to sourcing lenses and recorders to build a studio-grade 360° camera system… 360° Camera Page Stereo Rig Test...
Gladiator Screening
Join us on Thursday November 12 2015 at 7PM in URBN239 for a screening and discussion of Gladiator! Gladiator URBN 239 Screening Room November 12 2015 at 7PM In 2000 Gladiator took Hollywood by storm with a visually striking return to The Glory That Was Ancient Rome....
DreamWorks Visit & Presentations
DreamWorks Animation visits Drexel with their University Outreach and Recruiting team, along with Supervising Technical Director Ray Forziati. The DreamWorks team will be providing two presentations in the Annex Screening Room on Wednesday, November 11. Wednesday,...
Pixar Visit & Presentation
Presentation by Pixar Character Designer Matt Nolte Thursday, November 5, 2015 Bossone Center, Mitchell Auditorium 3140 Market Street Doors open at 3pm Bring your Student/Faculty ID for admission. Join us for a special 1-HOUR Behind the scenes presentation with Pixar...
Coraline, Pixar & Dreamworks, Oh My!
Don’t miss any of these exciting upcoming events! On Thursday, October 29 at 7pm… Professor David Mauriello will be leading a screening and discussion of Coraline. Click here for complete details. On Thursday Afternoon, November 5… Pixar...
Coraline Movie Screening
Join us on Thursday 29 October 2015 at 7PM in URBN239 for a screening and discussion of Coraline! Coraline URBN 239 Screening Room 29 October 2015 at 7PM Coraline combines old-fashioned stop-motion animation techniques with modern 3-D software and 3D Printing to...
The Incredibles Screening
Join us on Thursday 15 October 2015 at 7PM in URBN239 for a screening and discussion of The Incredibles! The Incredibles URBN 239 Screening Room 15 October 2015 at 7PM Brad Bird’s masterful story of an middle-aged Superhero and his family as they find a new place for...
Jurassic Park Screening
Join us on Friday September 18 at 6PM in the Mandell Theater for a special Mystery Fx Theater 3000: Jurassic Park Behind the Scenes screening and discussion! Jurassic Park Drexel’s Mandell Theater Friday, September 18 at 7PM Go behind the scenes of the original...
Welcome Week 2015
Drexel’s student orientation process is known as Welcome Week, a full week of events and activities that will help students hit the ground running and prepare life here on campus. The fun kicked off with Move-In Day on September 12 and was followed by a week of...
URBN Center’s XHFR Lab
John Berton Assistant Professor, Animation & Visual Effects John Andrew Berton, Jr. is one of the most experienced practitioners of digital filmmaking techniques. His successful career as a visual effects supervisor includes twelve years of work with the...
Branching in Nature & Modo
Branching is a common but perhaps often overlooked detail in organic modeling. Tree branches, roots, blood vessels, even waterways follow a certain pattern. In this video, Prof. David Mauriello looks at that, explains why it’s the way it is, and finishes with a...
3-D, Patient-Specific Heart Replica
Jason Kirk Adjunct Professor Kirk is a research assistant and adjunct professor in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. From EXEL MagazineMost visual representations of a patient’s heart — based on X-rays, drawings, CT imaging and computer animation —...
Alumni Work on “Madden The Movie”
Congratulations to Drexel Alumni Nate Lapinski and Corinne DeOrsay at MPC, LA for their work on “Madden The Movie”, a five minute long advertisement “movie” for Electronic Arts’ Madden Football 2016 video game. We have to admit, their...
SIGGRAPH Conference 2015
Volunteering, Learning & Connecting Over a dozen students, alumni and faculty attended this year’s SIGGRAPH 2015 Conference in Los Angeles, California. With programs running from August 8th through August 13th, this annual international conference is hosted...
Alumnus Presents at DigiPro2015
Drexel alumnus Evan Boucher and his colleague Nathaniel Dirksen have been selected to present their DreamWorks Animation work from Penguins of Madagascar at this year’s DigiPro2015 Symposium in LA on Aug. 8. The Digital Production Symposium (DigiPro...
2015 Student Compilation Animation Demo Reel
Animation & Visual Effects Student work from the 2014-2015 academic year at Drexel University’s Digital Media Department in the Westphal College of Media Arts & Design.
Professor John Berton In The News
The summer of 2015 is turning out to be a blockbuster season for VFX films. Two of these films, Jurrasic World and Terminator Genesis are directed descendants of pioneering work done by Drexel’s own John Berton, a professor for our Digital Media...
ZBrush & UVMaster
In this video, Prof. David Mauriello provides an overview of the UV Master plugin in...
UV Tools in Maya
In this video, Prof. David Mauriello looks at some of the core tools used to UV map a basic character model in...Quick Links
