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SIGGRAPH 2009 RECAP

August 13, 2009 This year’s Siggraph conference in New Orleans gave interesting insights into the advancements and future goals of Computer Generated Imaging and Animation. From the moment I sat on the plane next to a student who was going to be giving a presentation on, “How to Build Your Own 3D Printer”, 
to the very last taxi ride back to the airport, where I shared a cab and conversation with a PHD who was working on methods to lessen Read On...

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2009 High School Summer Programs

March 13, 2009 A glimpse of the future Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be filmmaker? A photographer? Write film scores? Create 3D animation? This summer you can find out when you spend two weeks in a creative, total immersion summer program at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University. Sign up today for one of our exciting programs offered at both our Waltham, MA and Washington, DC campuses, specifically designed for high sch Read On...

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Interdepartmental Play at CDIA

November 26, 2008 I mentioned last time that our class had been asked to create the opening credits for a film being done by a CDIA Filmmaking student. Jean Michel is chronicling the incredible story of his nearly four years in a Haitian prison and needed a title sequence that involved handcuffs and animated blood. Liquid can be handled a number of different ways in Maya, but the most obvious solution would be to use the Fluid Effects option in the Dynamics menu Read On...

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A Tree as My Nemesis

November 20, 2008 The moment my client said the words “Make me a Tree,” I felt my stomach drop. The tree has always been the bane of my modeling. At CDIA, I spent days working on a tree for one of my first projects in which a car drove through a forest, and I had nightmares about those awful trees for months. A few weeks later, I made another stab at my model arch enemy – again, no success.  So, when my game designer client from “Wizar Read On...

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Elves vs. Robots

November 13, 2008 While not as endearing or well known as the eternal struggle of pirate versus ninja, elves vs. robots is a powerful conflict I don’t think has been adequately explored.     As a Special Topic Presentation in our program, the class has the option to explore a subject that does not receive a module of its own as part of the curriculum. According to our instructor Pete, most classes take this opportunity to begin sharpening po Read On...