I have been neglecting yall! I apologize.
So! I'm a senior! Woot! Being a senior is very exciting. And stressful. I love it.
Computer Art has TWO NEW faculty members this year, and they're here for good! The first is Annina Ruest - she's awesome. She graduated from MIT and specializes in the field of physical computing (my new love) and she has been a great help to my partner and I for our Fall senior project: *drumroll* Experimental Peripherals for the Music Rhythm Genre! We are making different games that will try to trick the user into playing a music rhythm game, a la Guitar Hero. So far we have a Duck Hunt and Yoshi version, a.k.a. Duck Hunt Hero and Yoshi Hero! Next comes Trombone Hero and Text Hero. Should be awesome.
Transmedia is a-changin'......Our old professors, Sean and Diana, are gone and now we have Andy and Annina. It looks good though, they both are very qualified and have high expectations of us - exactly the way it should be. Andy is more focused on animation and compositing, and next semester he's teaching a class on visual effects! It's teamed up with the film majors and it looks like some fantastic stuff will come out of there. The program is shifting to Maya and RenderMan too! That's good news because Lightwave is not the industry standard and many more studios use Maya. It looks like Computer Art is headed in an exciting direction. More updates soon!
