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Animation Career Review consistently ranks Texas A&M as a top school for animation, game design and graphic design.
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best public school in the nation for game design (2021)
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best school in the nation for animation (2021)
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Work by our talented Vizzers at Vizagogo 29! Congratulations to all the Vizzie award recipients and everyone whose work was on display. As always, tag the artist below if you see their work :)
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Vizagogo 29 was a success!!
Thank you to everyone who was part of the show, and a special thank you to the volunteers that made this event possible. Congratulations Vizzers on another successful semester!
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This week’s Featured Student Work!
ARTS 305 High Chroma Studies: Acrylic on Canvas
Visit Langford C lobby to see more amazing projects by our Visualization students! As always, tag the artist below if you see their work :)
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Tim McLaughlin, associate professor of visualization, has been named interim dean of the new Texas A&M University School of Visual and Performing Arts.
McLaughlin was the founding department head in Visualization and held that position from 2008 to 2020. During his tenure the department more than tripled in size, added the undergraduate program in Visualization, minors in Art and Game Design & Development, and Texas A&M University’s first Master of Fine Arts degree program. In 2018 the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board bestowed a Recognition of Excellence to the department.
Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, McLaughlin worked in the movie industry at Industrial Light & Magic, and Lucasfilm Animation in San Francisco, California, where he led teams of artists and engineers developing computer graphics techniques for digital creatures in award-winning visual effects for films. His credit list of 15 feature films includes Mars Attacks!, Star Wars: Episode I, Van Helsing, War of the Worlds, and ground-breaking virtual production techniques on the prototype for James Cameron’s Avatar.
McLaughlin earned his Bachelor of Environmental Design degree from Texas A&M in 1990 and was among the first graduates of the Master of Science in Visualization Sciences program in 1994.
Across his career, McLaughlin’s work has focused on integrating science, technology, and the arts. He’s committed to developing academic programs, interdisciplinary approaches to research, and creative work.
Congrats and Gig 'Em Tim!
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has awarded Sabrina Carletti a postdoctoral Leonard A. Lauder Fellowship in Modern Art. This fellowship is awarded to examine connections among the Argentinian avant-garde and the modernization of Argentinian society between the 1920s and 1955.
Each year, the Met offers two fellowships in the research center to a predoctoral candidate and postdoctoral scholar. The term of her fellowship is 24 months from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024.
Congrats, Sabrina!
More Information:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/libraries-and-research-centers/leonard-lauder-research-center/programs-and-resources/educational-opportunities
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Visualization alumni Sebastian Kawar ’15 recently finished his mural for Gamigo’s new office.
Sebastian is a senior 2D artist at Gamigo in Austin, TX. While he is usually working on games, earlier this year he had the opportunity to take a little break from digital work to design and paint this mural for Gamigo’s new office. The main idea behind it was to inject a little bit of nature to try to decorporatize the space.
Sebastian says “it’s just over 40x9’, and it took 24 days to complete. I wasn’t able to do it alone, and I am very grateful to everyone who lent a hand."
The mural looks amazing!
We look forward to seeing more alumni work. If you want to be featured, please don’t hesitate to contact @tamuviz.
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Howdy, Vizzers!
The deadline for the Vizagogo Research Symposium is coming up soon, next Friday, April 29th!
Please submit your work to showcase your amazing work and research at the end of year show! See our story for the QR code to submit.
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Licia He recently exhibited 3 generative plotter paintings from March 22 – April 5 at Artists Who Code: Generative Art NFTs by Women and Non-Binary Artists.
This exhibition was held at Vellum LA with Artsy, the leading global online art marketplace, curated by Artist and Writer Mieke Marple and Vellum LA’s Director and Curator Sinziana Velicescu.
Using generative art techniques such as AI and algorithms as empowering tools, the show explores the realm of possibilities for a new language in the realm of digital art and beyond.
To see the artworks exhibited at Vellum LA, go to the link below:
https://www.vellumla.com/artists-who-code
https://nft.artsy.net/auctions/artists-who-code
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