Without a doubt this has become the busiest semester at the Viz Lab. Enrollment at TAMU exceeded 50,000 students this fall. The BS-Viz and MS-Viz programs have also expanded to record numbers. After welcoming 26 new graduate students, current enrollment for the MS program stands at 89. Supporting the grad program and all the undergrads in our department keeps me busy, but I enjoy the chaos….and it makes the work day fly by.
April 7, 2011 I’ve been very fortunate to have worked with some talented students who have left Aggieland to do some amazing things. Sometimes they return to recruit and/or visit with our current students. That’s what happened this week, when former Vizzers, Eric Andraos and Jake Brooks returned to the lab. Eric was recently sets-and-materials [...]
February 7-28, 2011 In this day and age, it may seem odd to some (especially those in technical fields) to still be working for the same employer for more than a decade. People will ask me if I’m “still at the Viz Lab,” as if I’m doing the same things I was doing when I [...]
February 16, 2011 My office has evolved over the years into a little geek-cave. It contains an ever expanding collection of gadgets, cameras, sci-fi stuff, and Dr Pepper memorabilia (among other things). Of course, no one at the lab thought it was odd when I decided to build and install a remote-controlled mirror ball system [...]
July 25-30, 2010 I spent the last week of July with fellow TAMU staff, faculty, and students at SIGGRAPH 2010 in Las Angeles, CA. SIGGRAPH is the annual conference on computer graphics convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. Thousands of CG artists, researchers, developers and producers gather for this conference. FYI: SIGGRAPH is short for [...]
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.
November 20, 2009
It’s always fun to have former students come back to the Viz Lab. Most of the time the former students return to talk about the movies their currently doing, review the work of the current students, or conduct interviews for job openings or internships.
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.
