Pinocchio Screening w/Ted Artz
Take in a screening of the original Walt Disney animated feature film Pinocchio on Thursday, April 14 in the URBN 349 Screening Room! Introduction and commentary provided by Prof. Ted...
Alumni Work on Batman vs Superman
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice features the work of Drexel Alumnus: Dan Bodenstein (2010) — Visual Effects Artist...
Student Team WINS at GDC!
Congratulations to the 51StandFire senior project team for WINNING FIRST PLACE BEST GAME PLAY at Intel’s Univeristy Games Showcase at this year’s Game Developers Conference!! The competition this year included Carnegie Mellon, NYU, RIT, Savannah College of...
Stitching Stitching Stitching
We’ve been working through a variety of stitching approaches including PTGui, AutoPano from Kolor, and beta testing a product from the folks at The Foundry. In the end, the off center LensBaby lens projection as well as the very non-standard camera arrangement...
Academy of Natural Sciences Shoot
The shoot at the Academy of Natural Sciences is now in the can! Our approach to shooting 360° with this rig was to setup and light the narrator for all the live dialog. Once these shots were complete, the set was cleared (including lighting) and a series of...
Alumni Work on Disney’s Zootopia
Disney Animation Studio’s Feature Film Zootopia includes work by Drexel Alumni: Amol Sathe (Class of 2007) — Lighting Supervisor Justin Dobies (Class of 2008) — Lighting Artist Joyce Le Tong (Class of 2010) — Crowd...
Alumnus On Oscar Winning “Inside Out”
Congratulations to David Lally and the Entire Pixar “Inside Out” Team! 2016 Best Feature Animation Congratulations to Drexel Alumnus David Lally and the entire “Inside Out” team at Pixar. “Inside Out” won the 2016 Oscar Award for...
4k Upgrades Ready for Shoot
With the shoot just one week away, it looks like the rig is ready to go in full 4k recording mode. An old BNC terminated VGA projector cable gives us a good 50-foot range to setup the production cart away and out of view from the cameras. A pair of 4k SSD recorders...
LensBaby Fisheyes and ATEM Control
With the shoot coming up in just a few weeks, we’re settling on the LensBaby 4.5mm fisheye lense for Canon EF mount using a Canon-to-MFT adaptor. Not really ideal. The lenses project an off-center image which we’ll need to compensate for in post, and they...
Alumni Work on Deadpool
Marvel Studios feature film Deadpool features work of Drexel alumnus: Will Muto (Class of 2009) – Technical Director at ATOMIC FICTION Will is mentioned by name in this Art Of VFX article interviewing Ryan Tudhope – Co-founder and VFX Supervisor at ATOMIC...
Zootopia Directors: Visit and Q&A
Disney Animation Studio’s Zootopia Directors Rich Moore & Byron Howard visit Drexel Zootopia Directors Rich Moore & Byron Howard Wednesday, February 24, 2016 3pm – 4pm Nesbitt Hall, Stein Auditorium 33rd & Market Street Doors open at 2:30pm...
Anita Sarkeesian on Gaming Culture
Join media critic Anita Sarkeesian as she discusses sexism in gaming, ranging from the portrayal of female characters in popular video games, to the culture of harassing and excluding women from gaming communities, particularly online. Sarkeesian’s talk also includes...
How to Train Your Dragon Screening
How to Train Your Dragon URBN 239 Screening Room February 4 at 7PM Join us on Thursday February 4 2016 at 7PM in URBN239 for a screening and discussion of “How to Train Your Dragon”! Assistant Professor John Berton and his guest Dreamworks Animation...
KOYAANISQATSI Screening
Join us on Thursday January 21 2016 at 7PM in URBN239 for a screening and discussion of KOYAANISQATSI! KOYAANISQATSI URBN 239 Screening Room January 21 at 7PM KOYAANISQATSI, Reggio’s debut as a film director and producer, is the first film of the QATSI trilogy....
Universal Joint Rig for Eyes
Using geometry and normal constraints, we can force group nodes to follow the contour of the eyeball. With a point constraint, a controller’s translates move a group over the eye because of the geometry constraint. The normal constraint forces the group to rotate,...
Stereo Rig Test
An ARCA based panning head and long plate allow the cameras to be mounted as a stereo pair, but it’s clear that these Rokinon 7.5mm lenses don’t provide enough field of view to be suitable for a full 360° rig. Will need to try other lenses with these...
Fun With Code
Fun With Code Fun With Code! Have you joined in the Fun With Code sessions being presented by professors Troy Finamore and Jeremy Fernsler yet? Be sure to attend these sessions 11am to noon every Tuesday during Winter Quarter from 11am to noon in the URBN 239...
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Alumni Work on SW: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens features the work of Drexel Alumni: Dan Letarte (Class of 2009) — Lead Digital Artist Greg Ruane (Class of 2011) – Pipeline Technical Assistant James Spadafora (Class of 2012) – Render Support...Quick Links
