visualization

Texas A&M Vizzers worked their digital mastery in the animated martial arts flick “Kung Fu Panda 2”. Po, Master Shifu, and the Furious Five return to defend the Valley of Peace and Kung Fu itself against a new and formidable enemy in DreamWorks Animation’s 3-D sequel.

Any visualization student will contend that movie magic is neither art nor science but a perfect blend of the two. Personifying that contention is former visualization student Kevin Reuter, who worked on the fourth installment of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.

Undergraduate visualization students capped their spring 2011 semester with an exhibition featuring their class projects in the Langford B Exhibit Hall and a screening of time-based work in the Preston Geren Auditorium.

An architectural preservationist, a creative director, scholars, educators, an urban planner and noted architects — including the designer of the world’s tallest building — are among the eight former students of the Texas A&M College of Architecture to be honored this year as Outstanding Alumni.

A menagerie of phantasmal creatures realized in papier-mâché by first-year Texas A&M visualization students populated the Viz 106 design studios on the third floor of the Langford C building as the spring 2011 semester drew to an end.

In the computer-animated movie “Rango,” dusty, sun-baked talking creatures and the mythical town of Dirt have a realistic look thanks in part to Kevin Reuter, one of the movie’s two look development supervisors and a former student of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture.

“The Bricklayer’s Disaster,” an animated short created by graduate students at Texas A&M’s Department of Visualization, earned the 3D Animation Award at the Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games in Middlesbrough, England.

The glow of light sculptures designed by visualization students at Texas A&M partially lit a darkened exhibit hall in the Langford Architecture Center during a review April 11. Students led by Richard Davison, professor of visualization, designed the sculptures for the Langford C courtyard.

Nine photographers selected as finalists from more than 3,500 entries in a national contest were students in a fall 2010 digital photography class at Texas A&M taught by Glen Vigus, lecturer and senior visualization production specialist for the Department of Visualization.

Elena Manferdini, principal of Atelier Manferdini, which specializes in computer-aided design of exotic forms, visited the college March 20 – 25 as an artist in residence. In a video interview, she discusses the installation she and students designed and erected in the Azimuth coffee shop.

In a room elaborately adorned with architectural installations created by Meg Jackson's design students, students from Weiling He’s studio donned their own designs, putting on a fashion show for their peers.

A video created by Stephanie Keske, a graduate visualization student, was part of a History Channel program documenting scientists’ and explorers’ installation and use of underground observatories to study the ocean’s crust.

Viz-a-GoGo 18, the annual showcase of digital wizardry conjured by students in the Master of Science in Visualization program at Texas A&M University, returned to downtown Bryan last May with screenings of student work, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, and more.