Showcase Thanks to all the students who submitted work this semester! Explore their work by scrolling through the post or jumping to specific student’s work via these links: Sesash Gutierrez, Chase Kile, Nicholas Eisner, Eric Kwon, Joseph Poselenzny, Nina Moldawsky, Ryan Ruocco, Trang Nguyen, Kathryn Schoen New Mexico Dining Room… Continue Reading Student Work Showcase: Spring 2021Read More →
In the Interactive Arts and Media Department, our students work with new and emerging technologies to create the immersive experiences of the future. We’re at the forefront of creative tech—from video games and animation to virtual reality (VR) and app development. Our multimedia storytellers of user experience designers, animators, game… Continue Reading Presenting the IAM 2021 Manifest Showcase!Read More →
Showcase Thanks to all the students who submitted work this semester! Explore their work by scrolling through the post or jumping to specific student’s work via these links: Sarah Shaw, Genus Griggs, Angelica Barbosa, Joseph Poselenzny, Charles Fatuki, Five Verrier, Bayan Jarad, Marco D’Andrea, Shelby Lerner, Michael Rivera, Juliette Castillo,… Continue Reading Student Work Showcase: Fall 2020Read More →
As Columbia College adjusts to distance learning, Interactive Arts and Media faculty continue to lead the charge in providing students with innovative approaches to classwork and remote resources. This post comes from Joshua A. Fisher, Assistant Professor of Immersive Media: If this were any other year, our students would be… Continue Reading Coming Together as Artists in Challenging TimesRead More →
As Columbia College Chicago continues to adjust to distance learning, IAM’s group of talented student workers have been shifting their regular Open Lab duties to the remote realm. We spoke with Zoey Reyes about how tutoring has changed during these challenging times and what resources students can make use of… Continue Reading How Tutoring Has Changed: A Q&A with Zoey ReyesRead More →
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
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 →
More and more industries are integrating Augmented and Virtual Reality for visual storytelling. Doctors are now using AR to view the body to get a more precise diagnosis. Airlines are using VR simulations for flight training and tracking. These same technologies are being used to show how furniture looks in… Continue Reading How Augmented Reality is Affecting YOURead More →
The Columbia College Chicago IAM Team is a group of students with diverse skill sets ranging from product development to graphic design. They work together to create solutions for a client that address the stakeholder’s needs or target a specific initiative. In sixteen weeks, the team produces viable products that… Continue Reading PaletteRead More →
Kakatte Koi Yo! selected as a finalist at the E3 College Game Competition. By slapping its competition away, Kakatte Koi Yo! successfully marked its presence at this year’s E3 competition. Kakatte Koi Yo! is a 2D platform fighter similar to games like Super Smash Brothers, Killer Queen, and Duck Game.… Continue Reading Kakatte Koi Yo! takes the cake at E3Read More →