Student Team Photos for Fall 2012
Pictures of our three teams and a brief description of their projects.
Spring 2012 ETC Students
This semester we have 17 students at ETC Silicon Valley, working on two teams. "Megalodon" is the largest team we've had yet, with 11 students on it. They are working on a project for Electronic Arts. Without giving away too much, they are developing a multiplayer game using an internally developed game engine at EA [...]
Dino Ignacio
Dino Ignacio of Visceral Games presenting to our ETC students. Dino Ignacio is Lead UI Designer at EA's Visceral Games. He gave a great presentation to our CMU ETC students about his work on Dead Space. The photo was shot with my Canon 430EX flash angled to bounce of the wall to the [...]
Fall 2011 ETC Student Team Photos
Each semester I take team photos of our students at the beginning and end of the term. It's fun to do, the students need the photos for their project websites, and there is always a fun creative challenge to do something that is relevant to their project. Five Sided Square "Five Sided Square" [...]
ETC Students, Post Presentations
Shot for our ETC website - five of our CMU-ETC students after giving a presentation about their summer internships. I started shooting before everyone was 'posed', which which got everyone much more comfortable and helped them show some real personality.
The Zeppelin – Again!
Teaching has its definite perks. We took our CMU ETC students on a field trip to learn more about the Bay Area - and how better than from a couple thousand feet overhead. Airship Ventures to the rescue! We took off from Oakland, headed over the Bay Bridge, past SF, around Angel Island and back [...]
My Students, Rock ‘n’ Roll Style
Class is back in session for our Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center students. We have two teams out here this semester, and as is customary I shoot team photos at the beginning and the end of the term. I went for an album cover look this time. Shot in a hallway at EA with plenty [...]
Trino Released on XBOX Community Games!
Trino is the result of two quarters worth of work by one of my student teams at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). It's a wonderfully fun game for the XBOX, and you can download it from XBOX Community Games. Everyone on the team is graduating this Sunday, and we're going to miss them a [...]
School Is In Session
Summer Vacation is officially over. Today was our first day of the fall semester for our remote outpost of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, or ETC-SV (for Silicon Valley). This group shot is of the students, plus Jiyoung and me (faculty) and Michelle (staff) in front of the EA logo in Redwood Shores. [...]