It’s ORIENTATION WEEK! Tisch Asia warmly welcomes the First Years to Singapore. This year, the community welcome the new members of Tisch Asia with a casual “satay and beer” party at campus. Everyone is excited and gently adapting to the exotic Singapore environment. The First Years have a busy orientation week ahead – packed with talks, workshops, screenings, Q&As with Filmmakers, Writers and Animators. Once again, WELCOME TO SINGAPORE!

Mingling already! 3rd Year Film Alice Ho with 1st Year Film Candice Vaughn.

Satay, a local Malay delicacy – basically, BBQ meat on a stick. (more…)

The 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were hosted at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles last night. Nine Tisch School of the Arts alumni were recognized for their outstanding achievements in television.

One Tisch professor received his Creative Arts Emmy at a ceremony held by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on August 21.

Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series: Mad Men
Carrie Audino ’97 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), CSA, Casting

Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie Or A Special: The Pacific
Jennifer Euston ’97 (BFA, Cinema Studies), CSA, New York Casting Director

Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special: The Pacific • Part Five
Daniel S. Irwin ’92 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), MPSE, Supervising Dialogue and ADR Editor

Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming: By The People: The Election Of Barack Obama
Sam Pollard, Professor (Kanbar, F&TV), Editor
Arielle Amsalem ’06 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), Editor

Outstanding Costumes for a Variety/Music Program or a Special: Jimmy Kimmel Live
Rodney Munoz ’92/’93 (BFA/MFA, Design)

Outstanding Comedy Series: Modern Family
Bill Wrubel ’93 (MFA,Kanbar, Goldberg DDW), Co-Executive Producer
Paul Corrigan ’94 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), Co-Executive Producer
Brad Walsh ’94 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), Co-Executive Producer

Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Steve Bodow ’95 (MPS, Kanbar, ITP), Supervising Producer

The 2010 Creative Arts Emmy Awards were given out Saturday, August 21st in Los Angeles. The below members of the Tisch community took home a statuette for achievements in their field. The 2010 Primetime Emmy Awards will be aired on Sunday, August 29th on NBC.

Outstanding Casting for A Drama Series
Mad Men • AMC • Lionsgate Television
Carrie Audino ’97 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), CSA, Casting

Outstanding Casting For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
The Pacific • HBO • Playtone and Dreamworks in association with HBO Miniseries
Jennifer Euston ’97 (BFA, Cinema Studies), CSA, New York Casting Director

Outstanding Picture Editing For Nonfiction Programming
By The People: The Election Of Barack Obama • HBO • Green Film Company, Citi Productions, Class 5 Films and GOOD in association with HBO Documentary Films
Sam Pollard, Professor (Kanbar, F&TV), Editor
Arielle Amsalem ’06 (BFA, Kanbar, F&TV), Editor

NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia
Animation and Digital Arts MFA program

GRACE UNDER WATER:

Workshop and talk by Anthony Lawrence
3D Stereoscopic Animation and Special Effects
Discussion and visual presentation on some of the technical challenges of Anthony’s next animation feature

Saturday, 4th September
Workshop in Classroom 1, 4th floor, Tisch Asia 1pm to 5pm
Talk in the Black Box Theatre, 2nd Floor, Tisch Asia 5.30pm – 6.30pm
3 Kay Siang Road, Singapore
RSVP ONLY. Please email Vaani vb38@nyu.edu by 31st August

Our Apple Girl (My Space My Time) has been selected for the 2010 Taiwan International Student Design Competition.

Congratulations to Kai-Sen Chan, Sandhya Prabhat, Jeremy Chia and Weng Tzu-Yin, and to the Animation and Film students who also collaborated on this project.

The Tisch Summer High School Program in Singapore is not all work and no play. The high school students did an impromptu performance with their teaching assistants along Pagoda Street in Chinatown during one of the Arts & Culture tour.

Tisch Asia: Summer High School Program 2010 – Pagoda St, Chinatown Part 1

Tisch Asia: Summer High School Program 2010 – Pagoda St, Chinatown Part 2

Tisch Asia’s Dramatic Writing Program, in only its second year, was a force in The Singapore Short+Sweet Festival.  Of the 40 plays presented, eight were written by faculty and students in Dramatic Writing Program — Joshua Billig, David Chang, Wendy Hammond (faculty),  Drayton Hiers, Jill Karkosak, Dean Lundquist, William Kovacsik (faculty), Li Linn Wee.   Ms. Hammond also directed the play by Ms. Wee, a wonderful collaboration of faculty and student.  William Kovacsik and Dean Lundquist were finalist for the Judge’s Picks awards, and Josh Billig was a finalist for The People’s Choice Awards. Short+Sweet Theatre is the biggest festival of ten minute theater in the world, held annually in ten different theaters in Australia and Southeast Asia.  Watch out next year!

Tisch Asia Animation and Digital Arts Chair, Jean Marc Gauthier is mentioned in this Forbes.com article on Siggraph 2010:

Organic Motion to Host the World’s First Real-Time Markerless Motion Capture Animation Event

BusinessWire – SIGGRAPH — Organic Motion, a leading computer vision company, today announced it will host the world’s first real-time markerless motion capture demonstrations showcasing the creation of full mocap animated scenes, recorded live during the SIGGRAPH 2010 Exposition. To showcase the power of Organic Motion’s STAGE(TM) system, the company has invited a number of renowned artists, Emmy(R) Award winners, educators and customers to show how the technology dramatically decreases the time and costs when creating human animations. The sessions will be held at Organic Motion’s booth (#636) in the Los Angeles Convention Center Hall, from July 27-29.

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The Tisch Summer High School Program also teaches the students the basics of post-production. The students learn to edit on the latest Final Cut Pro 7 at our Tisch Asia campus. This is the same facilities used by our MFA in Film students. Under the guidance of Post-Production instructor Mr John Burkhart, students learn how to import clips from tapeless media (Sony SXS cards), use timeline tools, utilize basic editing tools, 3-point editing and basic color correction. Here are some photos of the students during their editing class:

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On July 18, the Tisch Summer High School Program students had a little weekend adventure at Pulau Ubin, the last “kampung” (or village) in Singapore. The group took a bumboat ride from Changi jetty from the main island to Pulau Ubin. Once arrived, students can choose to cycle or ride the van for a half-day tour around the island. Students experienced “Singapore in the 60s” as they cycled through rubber plantations and tropical mangroves. It was an interesting and enriching day away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

images: Tisch Asia