WSU Tri-Cities

Digital Technology & Culture

News in Digital Technology and Culture

Spring 2008

Gary Hansen from Pixelsoft Films visits WSU Tri-Cities to talk about the digital media industry.

 

Fall 2007:
- The DTC Mac Lab is up and running. The state-of-the-art lab has new Mac Pro Desktops with 24-inch cinema screens.  The computers are loaded with the Adobe Creative Suite 3 (including After Effects, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Photoshop, and Premiere), Final Cut Pro Studio, Maya 8.5, and other cutting-edge software.  Students are currently utilizing the software in Professor Doug Gast’s Time-Based Media course and Isaac Stanfield’s Experimental Animation course.

- Coupled with the new Mac Lab and software, the DTC Program is in the process of obtaining Motion Capture software for use in animation and game design techniques.

- The DTC has a new program director, Jason Farman.  Dr. Farman joins WSU Tri-Cities from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he did his Ph.D. in Theater, Film, Television, and Digital Media. His research focuses on spatiality and embodiment in digital environments as well as social networking websites, online identities, AIDS/HIV and the virus in the digital era, digital documentation, computer gaming, and performance theory.

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