Visiting Artists

Monday, October 2, 2006
Noon untill 2PM in Farrington room 213



Migo Wu

Presentation:

Migo Wu a lead 3d artist for Farsight studios will be coming to Sam Houston State in late September to talk about creating textures for the PSP. Before moving to Farsight Migo was the lead texture artist at Artifacts entertainment where he was assigned to the on line game Horizons. Farsight Studios




Monday, October 23, 2006
10:30 AM untill 1:00 PM in Farrington, room 213



Geoff Mellon

Presentation:

Geoff Mellon a lead artist at Vicarious Visions, a game studio in Albany New York, will be coming to Sam Houston State to talk about a class he will be co teaching with the Animation programs faculty in the spring of 2007. Geoff is currently leading a team of artists that are working on a title based off a Feature film for the Nintendo Ds. Computer Animation for Interactive Games is a new course in the BFA in Animation and will be taught at Sam Houston state for the first time in the spring of 2007. The class utilizes an innovative approach which allows professional artists from game studios all over the United States to co teach in the Animation program. The game that Geoff is currently working on is breaking new technological ground and Geoff will be describing how the course will be incorporating some of the work flows and procedures utilized in production at Vicarious Visions.
Vicarious Visions