2023 DMAE News

Echoes - Explorations in the XR Studio Some test footage we captured by setting up the XR wall as a monitor for the camera, and scrolling the colors on the sky panels. Visual feedback is cool!

Jayden Daniels is having a Heisman worthy season at LSU. A shout out to the entire team who worked on helping athletics put together a great reel for LSU Tiger's Jayden Daniels. Check it out on X (Twitter) He is elite.He is electric.He is rewriting history.He is the best player in college football.…

Van 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! Over 110…

This 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…

Unreal 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…

This is the final month of submission for the AIAS Foundation, WomenIn, and Girls for Gaming scholarships. 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…

It 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…

As 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…

The 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…

This 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.” DMAE students Katherine Wilson and Meredyth Yorek are using photogrammetry techniques pioneered in our…

A 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…

LSU'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 prog…

Motion Design Education Summit invites students and emerging designers to submit to the fourth biennial MODE Fest taking place during the Summit on 9 June 2023 at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, USA.MODE Fest recognizes and celebrates the rising generation of motion designers who…

This 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…

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…