He is electric.\u003cbr/>He is rewriting history.\u003cbr/>He is the best player in college football. ","headline":"Jayden Daniels shot in XR Lab","image":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/images/news/2022/JaydenDaniels-1200.jpg","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-11-13-Jayden-Daniels-XRStudio","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marc Aubanel"},"datePublished":"2023-10-09 11:00:00","description":"\nVan Phan, a remote instructor for LSU took part in Epic's first Unreal Animation Fellowship. Unreal is really ramping up their in game rigging and animation toolset allowing artists to create sophisticated animated sequences all in engine. Take a look at the video and the amazing results!\n\n> Over 110 individuals ranging from industry professionals, training and education partners and applicants from the general public completed a 3 week program emphasizing keyframe and mocap animation in the engine. Fellows were separated into 8 teams of 14 Fellows each where they constructed “exquisite corpse” projects designed to take the animated contribution from one Fellow and creatively merge it into the next Fellow’s work. The final sequences are equivalent to reels that would normally take months to complete and they are spectacular!","headline":"Epic Animation Fellowship","image":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/6ni8DWDN-4Y/maxresdefault.jpg","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-10-09-Epic-Animation-Fellowship-23","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marc Aubanel"},"datePublished":"2023-10-03 11:00:00","description":"\nThis summer faculty and students from LSU's Digital Media Arts & Engineering program put together a video showing off the new XR lab which features a **10' by 20'** LED wall and **Optritrack** motion capture system used for tracking cameras as well as objects and actors. We have done a lot of work on the wall such as music videos, film scenes, puppet shows, short films, live performances and so much more. We are offering classes every semester with different focus. Please reach out to [Jason Jamerson](mailto:jasonjamerson@lsu.edu) if you want to find out more. ","headline":"Optitrack & LSU","image":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/eJjrDMtS40k/maxresdefault.jpg","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-10-03-Optitrack-LSU-2023","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marc Aubanel"},"datePublished":"2023-08-24 08:00:00","description":"\nUnreal Fest is taking place in New Orleans again in 2023. Join a global development community who are using real time 3-D graphics in a plethera of industries. Last year's event was well attended by LSU students and faculty alike. Take advantage of the rare game events that happen in southern Louisiana! Registration is now open - obtain you seat before they sell out. Tickets are now available [online](https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/events/unreal-fest-2023).\n\n> Unreal Fest is expanding, becoming a joint event for both devs and creators! Join us in New Orleans for 200 new sessions over three packed days, featuring hands-on training, riveting speakers, and a team of devs ready to answer your questions.","headline":"Unreal Fest Tickets on Sale","image":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/images/news/2022/UnrealFest23-1200.jpg","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-08-24-Unreal-Fest-Tickets-On-Sale","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"item":{"@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marc Aubanel"},"datePublished":"2023-05-21 14:00:00","description":"\nThis is the final month of submission for the **AIAS Foundation**, **WomenIn**, and **Girls for Gaming** scholarships. \n\n> Student scholarships support aspiring game makers in undergraduate or graduate level programs. Early professional scholarships support recent graduates in their first 2 years of the video game industry. Included in the scholarship is tuition reimbursement for student applicants or a travel stipend to a video game conference for early professionals within the calendar year. All Foundation scholars receive a chance to participate in a mentorship program at the 2024 D.I.C.E. Summit and 27th D.I.C.E. Awards ceremony \u003cbr/>\u003cbr/>Submissions must be completed by **May 31, 2023** to be eligible. Find more information at the [AIAS Foundation Scholarships](https://www.aiasfoundation.org/programs/scholarships.asp). ","headline":"AIAS Foundation Scholarships","image":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/images/news/2022/AIASScholarships-1200.jpg","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-05-21-AIAS-Scholarships","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"item":{"@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marc Aubanel"},"datePublished":"2023-05-19 19:00:00","description":"\nIt is with great joy and sadness that we part ways with the **Graduating Class of 2023** from the LSU DMAE program. It was a beautiful day at LSU in Baton Rouge at the Peter Maravich Assembly Center featuring over 700 graduating students from Undergrad, Master and PhD programs in the **College of Engineering**!\n\n\u003cdiv className=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/AB_1QtPmwhw?&autoplay=1&mute=1&playlist=AB_1QtPmwhw&loop=1\" title=\"DMAE Grad 2023\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; \" allowFullScreen=\"1\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cbr/>\u003cbr/>\nThe night before the ceremony we went out for dinner at [Chimes](https://thechimes.com) just off campus. All the grads are either already in jobs or moving into their new positions shortly. We are going to be separated with students leaving for New Jersey and California as well as staying home in Louisiana.\n\n\n\n\u003cbr/>\u003cbr/>\nZeyu came all the way from China and was a natural level designer and lighting artist. He also spent a lot of time modelling and using Unreal's various tools including **Niagara** particles.\n\nHe was part of a team that made a game called **Vesna**, a turn-based fantasy combat game using **Unreal Engine 5**!\n\n\n\u003cbr/>\u003cbr/>\nVictoria was the first deaf professional I have worked with in my career. It was a big challenge to try and adapt and make it work for the team and for Victoria. She spent a lot of time on UX Design and this was the first time Victoria worked on video games and was new to the turn based combat game genre.\n\n\n\u003cbr/>\u003cbr/>\nSadie handled all the storytelling in the game and worked with a plug-in called the **Visual Novel Framework**. She also handled all social media and working on submitting the game on Steam. \n\nLeo was the only programmer on the team and handled the daunting task of programming the entire game and using Unreal's Ability system as well as some tricks he brought to the game. He did an admiral job of supporting the entire team and coding 99% of the entire experience.\n\nKatie took a leadership role on the art side and modelled all the characters for the game as well as helping out in countless areas. The game looks amazing and Katie is a large part of this. \n\n\n\u003cbr/>\nVesna is coming to [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2416970/Vesna/) on June 1st, 2023 after working on it for 45 weeks - check it out! Class of 2023 I miss you all already, very best luck in your future careers!\n\n","headline":"2023 Graduating Class","image":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/images/news/2022/ClassOf23-1200.jpg","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-05-19-Graduating-Class","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"item":{"@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Jason Jamerson"},"datePublished":"2023-04-25 14:00:00","description":"\nAs part of the LSU Museum;s Digital Twin project our very own DMAE grads took part in preserving a part of Louisiana art history. The students scanned **Thornton Dial's** *World Peace*. Thornton's work consisted of scavenged and found materials that helped tell the story of black struggle in the south. These assemblages are not archival and will eventually be lost (or changed) due to time. This scanning provides very high detail 3-D reperesentations of Thornton's work that will outlast the lifespan of the art itself and preserve them for the history books. High resolution scanning has come down in cost and can be done with incredible detail and precision. DMAE students have been working on various scanning processes for the NASA Digital Twin and for classwork. ","headline":"World Peace 3D Scan","image":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/kfcHC_Ib7bY/maxresdefault.jpg","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-04-24-LSU-Library-Scanning","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"item":{"@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marc Aubanel"},"datePublished":"2023-04-15 14:00:00","description":"\nThe **Louisiana Economic Develpment Fund** has aided many aspiring filmmakers and educational institutions to develop the talent needed to substain the film and TV industry in the state of Louisiana. Jason Jamerson talks about the new XR Lab and how it was made possible by the LED fund. It is a forward looking program that helps the local talent stay on top of rapid changes in the industry to keep the state at the cutting edge of filmmaking. \n\n> Louisiana’s entertainment industry is thriving. Demand is surging for skilled creatives and production professionals that work in front of the camera as well as behind the scenes.\nAnd in Louisiana, entertainment jobs are more than just gigs – they’re full-time careers.\u003cbr/>\u003cbr/>Established in 2017, the Entertainment Development Fund provides critical state support to education and workforce development initiatives preparing Louisiana residents for highly specialized jobs in film, television, and much more.\u003cbr/>\u003cbr/>Nearly five million dollars have been invested to date toward establishing and equipping skills development programs like the XR Virtual Production Studio at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge...the Digital Media Institute in Shreveport...the COOL Cooperative, Video Access Center and Mic’d Up music and film production programs in New Orleans...and the Visual FX Program at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette...to name just a few.\u003cbr/>\u003cbr/>The investments being made today through the Entertainment Development Fund ensure a world-class Louisiana talent pool for the future. That’s sure to strike a chord with productions considering their next location–and with young creatives readying for blockbuster careers right here in their home state.\nFor more information visit [louisianaentertainment.gov](https://www.louisianaentertainment.gov).","headline":"LED Development Fund","image":"https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/1654931785-6fefa30409bf95ddf7d990f3d1b94bf1cfdf9e835d543ebd2eeb90d5284bb243-d_295x166?region=us","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-04-15-LED-Development_Fund","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"item":{"@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Jason Jamerson"},"datePublished":"2023-04-04 14:00:00","description":"\nThis Spring DMAE students and faculty are working in collaboration with the LSU Museum of Art to create digital assets of sculptures in one of their current exhibits, “I, Too, Am Thornton Dial.” \n\n\n\nDMAE students Katherine Wilson and Meredyth Yorek are using photogrammetry techniques pioneered in our Digital Twinning Studio to create high quality 3D assets for interactive exhibition and archival. This work is related to the ongoing project to create a Digital Twin of the MoA. \n\n\n\nDial drew inspiration from his life experiences, blending complex themes like Civil Rights, race, class, and family into sophisticated arrangements crafted with found objects—everything from bones, wood, toys, metal, and clothing. His condensed assemblages, although compactly layered with commonplace fragments of life, move with a lightness, pulling the viewer in to explore the cracks and crevices of the varied surface. \n\n\n\nAfter meeting the Atlanta-based collector William Arnett in late 1980s, Dial gained national attention, with his artwork being shown and acquired by large institutions across the United States. The artist died on January 25, 2016, in McCalla, Alabama.\n\n","headline":"LSU MoA Thornton Dial Exhibit Photogrammetry","image":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/images/news/2022/Photogram1-1200.jpg","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-01-17-ThorntonPhotgrammetry","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":11,"item":{"@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Jason Jamerson"},"datePublished":"2023-01-17 08:00:00","description":"\nA work in progress video walkthrough of the Digital Twin for the LSU Museum of Art. The primary use case it to design exhibits digitally, from wall color to art placement. This opens up the possibility for a virtual gallery, event planning, renovation design, and more. Using real time rendering in Unreal Engine, and modeled in Blender, the Game, VFX, and Animation skillsets taught in our program are in high demand across Architectural, Engineering, and many other fields.","headline":"Museum of Art Digital Twin","image":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/wkzxmfVQ5Po/maxresdefault.jpg","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-01-17-BRMuseumArtDigTwin","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":12,"item":{"@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marc Aubanel"},"datePublished":"2023-01-12 15:00:00","description":"\nLSU's **Computer Science**, **Digital Art**, and **Digital Media Arts & Engineering (DMAE)** programs are working with LSU's **Nation Center for Advanced Manufacturing (NCAM)** to prototype a foward looking **Digital Twin** of the **Michoud Assembly Facility** in **New Orleans**. Many of the graduate students in the **DMAE** program are taking part in creating a cyber version of the manufacturing facility. This gives LSU students a chance to use cutting edge technology that has been developed for video games and film in a manufacturing context. \n\nStudents will be using **Unreal**, **Hololens II** and the latest technology in enabling a cyber twin with a digital thread connecting the real location to the digital one. The final delivery of the prototype will include working with state of the art scanning software and hardware. This will all support **NASA** as they work towards the [Artemis mission](https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/) and provide next generation help for future scientists and engineers. It also elucidates the career opportunity for digital media grads into non-entertainment field.\n\nThis project is in partnership with the University of New Orleans and technology solutions provider, Sev1Tech.\n\nFor more information, visit [NASA awards $5M to leverage LSU digital media experts and grow the spacecraft industry workforce](https://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2022/08/spacecraft-aerospace-engineering-workforce.php)","headline":"LSU/NASA Digital Twin","image":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/images/news/2022/DigTwin-1200.jpg","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-01-12-NASANCam","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":13,"item":{"@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marc Aubanel"},"datePublished":"2023-01-10 09:00:00","description":"\n> **Motion Design Education Summit** invites students and emerging designers to submit to the fourth biennial [MODE Fest](https://filmfreeway.com/MODEFest) taking place during the Summit on 9 June 2023 at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, USA.\u003cbr/>\u003cbr/>**MODE Fest** recognizes and celebrates the rising generation of motion designers who are creating some of the most interesting, imaginative, and well-crafted work today. All submissions will be reviewed by renowned industry professionals and respected academics. Selected entries will be showcased and numerous monetary awards will be presented at the event.\u003cbr/>\u003cbr/>If you are a current student or recent graduate, you are invited to submit your work in one of five categories listed on the Film Freewaysubmission page. If you are a faculty member, take advantage of our Institutional Rate and submit unlimited entries. The deadline for submissions is April 20, 2023.\n\nPlease note that one of the categories is interactive and can apply to projects done on the LED Volume.","headline":"Fourth Biennial MODE Fest","image":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/images/news/2022/ModeFest-1200.jpg","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-01-10-Modefest","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":14,"item":{"@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marc Aubanel"},"datePublished":"2023-01-06 10:30:00","description":"\nThis is a short video of the installation and use of the new XR Lab at LSU. This was installed in Spring of 2022 and has been used by students in multiple programs including digital art, computer science, electronic music and digital media, english, film studies to name a few. This is a true multi-department collaboration bringing together real-time video game technology for in camera on set VFX. We are very excited for what the future holds in **Virtual Production**.","headline":"New Virtual Production Studio at LSU","image":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/tu7RB-r2170/maxresdefault.jpg","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-01-06-XRLab2","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":15,"item":{"@type":"NewsArticle","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marc Aubanel"},"datePublished":"2023-01-04 10:30:00","description":"\n**Tiger TV** aired a segment on the new **XR Studio** at the Digital Media Center. It features the same technology used on the **The Mandalorian** with 84 **Roe BPv2** led screens to create a 10’ by 20’ state of the art LED Volume. With a RED Komodo and Optitrack motion capture system - this allows the use of a video game engine to generate real time environments for filmed entertainment. This dramatically increases the potential for student work to compete in quality and scope with large budget feature films. It also allows LSU to train the next generation of story tellers that will also now include real time CGI. ","headline":"LSU is Already in the Future","image":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/RIhlqJrvSVw/maxresdefault.jpg","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/news/2023/2023-01-04-XRLab","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://dmae.lsu.edu/icons/icon-192x192.png"}}}}]}}