Vancouver

Live Smooth StreamingLots is going on at MIX, so as not to overwhelm with too many posts, I’ll try to triple-dip on this one.First, as part of Scott Guthrie’s keynote yesterday (now with transcript), we announced that live streaming is coming for Smooth Streaming. The key advantages of Smooth…

Finally a summer camp for tech kids!  The three week digital media boot camp took place at the Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver this summer and these kids had a blast.   I talk to Magy Seif El-Nasr assistant at Simon Fraser University to get all the details. 

Composer, songwriter, sound designer, producer, musical director, and performer in almost any genre of music imaginable, for over two hundred live and digital media productions in the past 20 years, Patrick Pennefather(BFA,MFA) is a specialist for the Masters of Digital Media Program @ Great…

I took a trip to the GNWC Master of Digital Media Program last week and had an opportunity to spend some time chatting with a few of the students in the masters program about this cutting edge idea.  Instead of looking at data through an excel sheet or table, they have created a…

Okay, sometimes we just need to share the love.  I met a student named Nadia Aly at the GNWC in Vancouver a few weeks ago.  She is working on her masters in digital media.  She was half of the duo that brought us Second Life "How to get Started" and the…

I sat down with McKane Lee from the Masters of Digital Media program at the Great Northern Way Campus and he gave us a quick lesson on rendering using a short film he and his team produced titled "Crossing".  "Crossing", a film and animation piece produced by MDM…

Rendering is the process of generating an image from a model, by means of computer programs. The model is a description of three dimensional objects in a strictly defined language or data structure. It can contain geometry, viewpoint, texture, lighting, and shading information. The image is a…

What's it like to share a real-life stage with your Second Life avatar?  We've seen the use of a green screen in real life for quite some time now.  Newscaster pretends to be stuck in the middle of a Hurricane.  Star Wars and a fight to the death with light sabers.  As…

I took a little trip to Vancouver this past weekend and spoke with Gerri Sinclair, the executive director at The Great Northern Way Campus.  The Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver offers an amazing opportunity to get your Masters Degree in Digital Media.  Great Northern Way Campus…