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Making Distance Learning Count for Creatives

Tagged: collaboration, college, distance learning, student work, students, VDI

The school’s substantial investments in recent years paved the way, and even included remotely accessible high-performance virtual media workstations, including powerful graphics accelerators, allowing students to do complex media production like video editing, software development, and animation – without having those high-powered machines and all that expensive software installed at home.Read More → Continue Reading Making Distance Learning Count for Creatives

Canvas LMS screenshot for Digital Animation Techniques: Ink, Paint & Composite

An Inside Look: Teaching Digital Animation Techniques Online

In: Events, Faculty, Students, Work

Tagged: animation, college, faculty

Digital Animation Techniques: Ink, Paint & Composite focuses on identifying and understanding cinematography choices in hand-drawn animation. Typically the course is taught in person; students learn how to clean-up, paint and render their own animation with effects and techniques studied in films watched and discussed as part of the course.… Continue Reading An Inside Look: Teaching Digital Animation Techniques OnlineRead More →

Animated character - a blue dragon-like creature

34th Biannual Animation Screening

In: Events, News, Students

Tagged: animation, event, student work, students

Animation Screening: December 12, 2019 The 34th Biannual Animation Screening (Interactive Arts and Media at Columbia College Chicago) showcases animated shorts – from conceptualization through final films. Animation Solo Projects and Animation Production Studio films at various stages of production will also be screened. Thursday, 12/12, , Film Row Center… Continue Reading 34th Biannual Animation ScreeningRead More →

IAM (Interactive Arts and Media) graphic treatment

Award-Winning Students: Political Cartoon Contest

In: Events, News, Students

Tagged: animation, student work, students

Congratulations to Animation majors Del Sego and Sung Min Byun for winning 1st and 3rd place, respectively, in the 2019 Paula F. Pfeffer & Cheryl Johnson-Odim Political Cartoon Contest! Animation majors have participated in the contest for over 10 years, but this is the first time two animation students have placed… Continue Reading Award-Winning Students: Political Cartoon ContestRead More →

2018 Manifest Game Jam Winner - student game "Together Alone" screenshot

2019 IAM Manifest Game Jam Challenge

In: Events, News, Students, Work

Tagged: animation, art, audio, collaboration, game art, Game Design, iam, Manifest, programming, student work, students

Each year the IAM department hosts a game jam that culminates on Manifest. Students form small teams (max 5 people) to build a game collaboratively. This year students will have an expanded timeline so that they can participate in Industry Night without losing time to work on their Game Jam… Continue Reading 2019 IAM Manifest Game Jam ChallengeRead More →

Game Developers Conference 2019

In: Events, News, Students

Tagged: event, Game Design, gdc, students

It is getting closer to the time of the year where 28,000 members of the gaming industry migrate to San Francisco, California for the annual Game Developers Conference (GDC). For five days the Moscone Center is transformed into a gaming and high tech playground for its attendees with 550 leading… Continue Reading Game Developers Conference 2019Read More →

Undertakers

In: Students, Work

Tagged: animation, audio, capstone, collaboration, game art, Game Design, iam, programming, project, student work, students, teamwork

Inspired by the famed westerns of Sergio Leone, Undertakers is a third-person LAN shooter that pits you against three of your friends in a frantic battle to seize gold. Read More → Continue Reading Undertakers

Student work from the Animation Foundations course

Animation Foundations Inaugural Class

In: Students, Work

Tagged: animation, motion graphics, visual effects

Over sixty freshman Animators debuted their work in the new Animation Foundations class.Read More → Continue Reading Animation Foundations Inaugural Class

Hooked

In: Students, Work

Tagged: code, collaboration, Game Design, iam, programming, project, student work, students, VR

Hooked is a VR puzzle game that challenges the way you think. Don’t be fooled by the first level… you are in for a surprise. https://vimeo.com/304212619 Ishan, an artist on the team, says, “Inspired by other 2-D games, we were motivated to make something familiar in 3-D. We are using… Continue Reading HookedRead More →

Photograph of Alex Damarjian (IAM Faculty)

Assistant Professor Alex Damarjian Featured on NBC

In: Events, Faculty, News

Tagged: faculty, game art, Game Design, game dev, project

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Alex Damarjian helped create a doctor and parent-approved video game entitled PDI Check. If played in moderation, PDI Check can help young kids improve their eye sight and develop in educational, social, and physical ways. Read More → Continue Reading Assistant Professor Alex Damarjian Featured on NBC