June 7 – 23, 2010 There’s no summer “down time” in my department. During the summer sessions, our students participate in an industry-animation-course. The Department of Visualization collaborates with one of the leading animation studios to give the students a condensed “real-world” production experience. This year, students taking the Summer Industry Course (VIZA 627) will [...]
May 19, 2010 For the past several years, when DreamWorks releases a new film, they’ve reserved one of our local theaters for a private prescreening. Wednesday evening, students, and others associated with the Department of Visualization gathered at our local Cinemark theater to watch Shrek, The Final Chapter. It was a cute film, but the [...]
May 12, 2010 The best thing about my job – meeting and working with really great people. The worst thing about my job – saying goodbye to really great people. I don’t know what it is about the Viz Department (maybe it’s the geek factor) but most of the students I interact with I consider [...]
May 3-8, 2010 Over the years, the number of students I help support has grown, especially when the Visualization Program became its own department. To be honest, I like all the chaos because there’s never a dull moment. The madness seems to peak at the end of each semester and spring-2010 was the craziest one [...]
February 5, 2010 On a cold Friday afternoon, Bobby (my grad-assistant) and I hauled a lot of A/V gear to Downtown Bryan for Art Step. This event is an expanded version of the monthly First Friday art experience held in Downtown Bryan. The Department of Visualization had a presence at February’s Art Step by showcasing [...]
December 9-11, 2009
Throughout the semester, I’ve been pushing the idea that our students should start producing video and animated work at resolution levels within the currently established “high definition” standards.
August 29, 2009
The final week of August was spent doing non-stop preparation work for the begining of yet another academic year. The 28th and 29th marked VizCamp, an orientation session for our incoming first-years.
August 6-7, 2009
The last two days of this conference were just as busy as the start of the week. Thursday was spent attending the Disney educators meeting where Disney presented the work they had recently done with our students this past summer.
