Heavy Lift Computer Systems
Stitching takes horsepower in the CPU and GPU department, so we have some upgrades going into the labs for this year. Once these are installed, we’ll have 60 systems with 20 or more CPUs each operating with 64Gig, SSD system drives and nVidia GTX 1080 GPU...
360° Science Documentary now Hosted on JauntVR
The dinosaur documentary we shot back in March at the Academy of Natural Sciences is complete and now hosted on JauntVR. Congratulations to Valentina Feldman and everyone involved in this production. The fulldome version of this documentary premiered last month at...
Alumni work on Kubo and the Two Strings
LAIKA’s 2016 stop motion animated feature film Kubo and the Two Strings features the work of Drexel Alumnus: Sara (Colucci) Ireland (2007) — Compositor...
HoloLens Development at Microsoft Reactor
HoloLens Development at Microsoft Reactor Wednesday, August 17 at 5:30 PM – 8 PM 3711 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Hosted by Philly.NET Meetup Come check out Microsoft’s new “Reactor” space and learn about HoloLens development. The space...
Alumni Work on Pete’s Dragon
±— Disney’s 2016 feature film Pete’s Dragon features the work of Drexel Alumnus: Ari Teger (2007) — Previs Artist: Proof, Inc...
SIGGRAPH 2016
Had a great week this week at the SIGGRAPH 2016 conference. Thanks to folks at Sptiz, Inc. we were able to setup a 20-foot diameter dome in our booth in the expo hall to demo a variety of Immersive shorts creating in CG and live action with the 360° camera rig. Having...
Alumni work on Star Trek Beyond
Paramount Pictures’s “Star Trek Beyond” features work of Drexel Alumnus: Will Muto (Class of 2009) – Pipeline Technical Director: Atomic...
Create Your Own AR with Unity
Make Your Own Pokémon Augmented Reality w/ Unity! Tuesday, July 19 at 7 PM – 8 PM URBN Center for Arts and Design – Room 250 Create your own augmented reality Pokémon. In the same way Pokémon Go augments Pokémon in your real environment, our workshop will...
Drexel SIGGRAPH Meetup 2016
Drexel SIGGRAPH Conference Gathering & Reception The Flightdeck, Anahiem: July 27, 2016 This year’s Drexel SIGGRAPH was a blast! Hosted at The Flightdeck in Anaheim, CA on Wednesday July 27 from 6pm-8:30pm, sponsored by Drexel University’s Westphal College...
Alumni work on Independence Day Resurgence
Feature film Independence Day: Resurgence features the work of Drexel Alumnus: Simon Littlejohn (2012) — Postviz FX Artist...
Alumni Work on Pixar’s Finding Dory
Disney Pixar’s “Finding Dory” features work of Drexel Alumnus: David Lally (Class of 2010) – Simulation Technical Director:...
State of the Rig
Just a quick update as we work to refine the rig and move toward a 4 camera setup. We’ve been able to clean up cabling quite a bit by stowing camera power supplies and sync distribution in a case that rests under the rig. We have a fourth camera in hand with...
Alumni Work on Alice Through The Looking Glass
Walt Disney Picture’s Alice Through The Looking Glass features work by Drexel alumnus: Justin Dobies (Class of 2008) – Senior Lighting Technical...
Lens Tests
Over these past months we’ve been trying out a fairly divers collection of lenses and lens adaptors with our Black Magic Micro Studio cameras to find a good balance between quality, field of view and cost for use in a 360° camera system. Here are the results of...
2016 Digital Media Showcase
The full video from the 2016 Digital Media Showcase presentation event is available now: Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media Art & Design presented its 2016 Digital Media Showcase event at the International House Philadelphia, Sunday, June 5...
Empire Strikes Back Screening
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Geoge Lucas’ The Empire Strikes Back is widely considered the best film in the culturally iconic series of (now 8 and counting) Star Wars films. It marked a dramatic transition from the first film, which was made on a...
Nausicaä Screening
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Hayao Miyazaki’s epic tale of a young woman’s courageous battle to overcome prejudice and greed to save her people and the natural world from weapons of mass destruction and those who would wield them. This is Miyazaki’s first...
3-Camera Rig
Still testing the Fujinon lenses. Looking like distortion will remain a challenge, but still promising enough to expand our collection of cameras and recorders to 3 sets. A little bit of 8020 rail makes this little 3-camera monoscopic 360° rig possible. 360° Camera...
Alumni Work on The Jungle Book
Disney’s 2016 live action feature film The Jungle Book features the work of Drexel Alumnus: Girish Balakrishnan (Class of 2013) — Virtual Production Lead/Photon TD: Digital Domain To read more about the amazing work on this film, be sure to check out the article...Quick Links
