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Research interests include: Engineering and Arts Education, Simulations and Games/VR, 3D printing for Visualization and Art, and Game Engines for Architecture and Machinima.

He is a Co-Founder of the Entertainment Arts and Engineering program where he is a professor. His passion is to teach in the intersection of art and engineering. He has been teaching computer graphics for over twenty years.

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His industry experience included designing and directing interactive music videos for Sting and Peter Gabriel, working on several AAA video games in varied rolls, and designing and directing the first major interactive TV (I-TV) show at Microsoft that was called Vine Street. Throughout his education, he has been influential in founding and designing academic programs that blend the arts with engineering. His dissertation was on “The Educational Impact of Digital Visualization Tools on Digital Character Production Computer Science Courses” and his doctoral work was on Entertainment Arts and Engineering Interdisciplinary Education. in Computing at the University of Utah in 2009. in Design at the University of California Los Angeles in 1990, his M.B.A from Northwestern University in 1999, his M.S.E in Computer Graphics and Game Technology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, and his Ph.D. degree from Brigham Young University in 1985, his M.A. For more information visit Christensen van Langeveld received his B.S. Its credits include SPY KIDS 2, ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, BATTLEFIELD EARTH, THE FACULTY and MIMIC. For more information about Avid visit Hybride is a 10-year-old visual effects company located in Piedmont, Quebec, Canada. Softimage customers include R!OT, Valve, Capcom, Pandemic Studios, The Mill, Pixel Liberation Front, Blue Sky Studios, Hybride, Janimation, Quiet Man, PSYOP, Cinepix and Framestore CFC. Softimage Co., a subsidiary of Avid Technology, Inc., is an industry leader in 3D animation, 2D cel animation, compositing and special effects software. In fact, in most shots, the only real elements are the actors! We made extensive use of the effects tree to key in the greenscreen shot actors into the CG scenes so that we could easily change their timing and positioning within these scenes, just as if they had been CG characters themselves.

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One of the other unusual aspects of the movie is that almost 75% of the live action was shot on a greenscreen, the rest being totally computer generated.

To create a depth of field perceptible with special 3D glasses, we used the amazingly flexible render tree in SOFTIMAGE|XSI to render each shot twice, the first time as if it were seen from the left eye, and the second time as if it were seen from the right eye and then interleaved the two shots, explains Marc Bourbonnais, senior technical director at Hybride. Hybride built a powerful 200-CPU render farm based on the SOFTIMAGE|XSI Batch system, managed by the SOFTIMAGE|XSI BatchServe software. From the design and animation of the CG versions of Grandpa and robot characters to the creation of more than 15 different motor vehicles and dozens of virtual environments, every element had to be rendered twice to create the illusion of a 3D environment. Once the characters enter the video game the audience puts on 3D glasses. The film takes the kids into a virtual-reality video game. Thanks to the unsurpassed performance, workflow capabilities and productivity-enhancing features of SOFTIMAGE|XSI, we were able to finish our work on SPY KIDS 3D smoothly and on time, without compromising our creativity. Softimage had all the right tools for the job. Also, with large sections of the movie being stereoscopic - which will require the audience to wear 3D glasses - we had to address some highly-technical challenges and doubling of rendering requirements, on top of the usual creative demands of a CG movie. The 100-person team at Hybride relied on the SOFTIMAGE|XSI product, SOFTIMAGE|XSI Batch and SOFTIMAGE|XSI BatchServe.Ĭompared with SPY KIDS 2, SPY KIDS 3D includes more extensive and sophisticated effects shots, said Hybride president and co-founder Pierre Raymond. Hybride used a range of Softimage systems to create animation and effects for the box-office topper SPY KIDS 3D: GAME OVER.

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