Author: Atia Newman
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International Women Faculty: Together RIT Programming 2023
RIT’s Day of Understanding Programming was established in 2022 to allow the RIT community to “engage in intentional and honest dialog about challenging issues”. As someone actively engaged in exploring ways to improve cross-cultural communication using animation and gaming, I was invited to join the panel of international women to talk about the experiences that…
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Mace-Bearer!
You never really think about it until it happens, but here is my third time carrying the mace for an RIT event! Even though I am just starting my second year as Faculty Senate Chair, I was honored to carry the mace for RIT Commencement and the College of Art Convocation of 2022. Here I…
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GDC and Beyond!
What it felt like to come out of my COVID-isolation cave to speak at the biggest Game Conference in the world!
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The SHED Game Walkthrough Results and Feedback
A short video of the first draft. This was the export that was play-tested by students of the Museum Sciences program (MUSE360), thanks to the support of Dr. Samaya Nasr at RIT. Here, we learned that the students struggled with the speed of the navigation tools and wished they had the option to fly. From…
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Processing the SHED @ RIT
The special topics course was a success! Not only did my four students get highly involved in refining the process, but we were able to successfully export a few different samples of the game, ready to play and with a secondary level to show a few additional details preserved during our research. From our tests,…
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The Shed Game @ the Genesee Country Village and Museum: A Quick Summary
This is the shortest possible update of the pilot DIP process. A module of the super-epic Lahore Fort Project is the method I have suggested to use game creation workflows to digitally preserve buildings and sites. In October of 2022, I, and a team of animation students were given the opportunity to put this theory…
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Compositional Elements
Animation is all about making people see what you want to see. Entertainment is making sure they enjoy themselves while you show them. An animator can spend a lot of time making sure the mechanical side of things is perfect, but all of this work will be for nothing if the viewer doesn’t see it.…
