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.

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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From Jean-Marc Gauthier:

Hi All,
Tisch Asia Animation and Digital Arts MFA program will be at Siggraph 2010 in Los Angeles, on 07/28 and 07/29. Siggraph is the largest international conference and exhibition on computer animation, interactive techniques and digital arts, http://www.siggraph.org/s2010/ ,

I will give two talks “Using motion capture at NYU Tisch Asia, a graduate animation program in Singapore” and “Creating motion capture scenes using 2D storyboards”. The talks are organized by Organic Motion, a leading innovator of computer vision and motion capture systems. http://organicmotion.com/company The talks are a great opportunity to learn more about our program.

Please email Aunchelee at ab3578@nyu.edu for a Siggraph meeting.
Thanks,
Jean-Marc

Download the .pdf presentation here.

From The Straits Times:

Five years on, Lucasfilm Animation Singapore has drawn talent but is it ready to create original content?

Animation and Digital Arts students at New York University Tisch School of the Arts Asia recently held their spring show. Check out the photo gallery!

Mark Osborne is a director and Guggenheim Fellow (2004). He got his start by studying Foundation Art at Pratt Institute in New York before receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in June 1992. His most well-known work to date, More, a stop motion short film, has screened in over 150 film festivals worldwide. It was the first IMAX animation film to ever be nominated for an Academy Award (1999). Best Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival (1999), The SXSW Best Animated Short (1999), the ResFest Grand Prize (1999), the Critics Week selection for CANNES (1999) and others.

Osborne co-directed Kung Fu Panda aka Kung Fu Panda: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version). He is currently working as director of the comedy segment in the upcoming film Heavy Metal.

Wednesday the 28th at 11:30 in the Black Box Theatre

Tisch Asia Animation and Digital Arts MFA program presents

May 5th 2010
ANDA Spring Show: Fourth Floor 6 – 9PM
Join ANDA for an evening of Animation, Installations, and multi-media productions from students working within a range of techniques, from traditional to advanced digital technologies.

Thesis Screening: Black Box Theater 6:30PM
World Premiere Screening of the MFA Thesis Productions from:
Colleen Cox, Jordan Mann, Kaizin Pooniwala, Aylina Juanda, Ayse Suter, Yiran Xu, Ilmo Chung

Two-time Oscar nominee, Bill Plympton is no stranger to the Animation world. The American animator gave a talk at Tisch School of the Arts Asia last Thursday. He screened some of his “Plymptoons” works and shared his knowledge with Tisch Asia students and invited guests. Here are some photos from his talk:

Bill Plympton gave a short introduction about his “Plymptoons”.

It’s a FULL HOUSE!

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