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World-class facilities, including: 7,000-square-foot sound stage and post-production sound mixing and color correction facility suites for both educational and commercial productions
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A Creative Pipeline
Andrew SevignyMotion Picture ScienceSevigny is conducting research to help filmmakers translate what they create on their computers to a full cinematic experience.
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The Physics of Animation
Mari Jaye BlanchardAssistant ProfessorSchool of Film & AnimationTo create movement, Blanchard’s classes are full of motion, with students jumping, crawling, and walking to better understand the physics they are trying to draw.
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MetroGnome
Barrington CampbellGame Design and DevelopmentTinkering, testing, designing, coding – it's what he does. Through RIT's game design program, Campbell and his team created a game that garnered attention from 20th Century Fox, leading him to an internship with the company.
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The Sky’s the Limit
Aaron GordonFilm and AnimationGordon started Optic Sky, an animation company, after graduating from RIT with a degree in film. He helps develop new talent by inviting RIT students to work on his production crews.
Latest News
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February 13, 2020
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Four RIT faculty and staff alumni acknowledged with the Golden Brick Award
Michelle Magee ’05 MS, senior associate director for Employment Engagement in the Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education; Hamad Ghazle ’88, director of the diagnostic medical sonography program; Kerry Hughes ’03 MS, project and events manager for the Office of the Provost; and David Long ’16 Ph.D., director of RIT MAGIC Center, and were honored with the Golden Brick Award for going above and beyond their duties to volunteer or serve in leadership roles at RIT.
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February 12, 2020
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RIT named one of the best colleges to study video game design
Animation Career Review has again named RIT one of the top game design schools in the country. RIT ranked seventh on the list of Top 50 Game Design Schools in the U.S. and second in New York state.
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October 18, 2019
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At MAGIC Center, David Long balances student opportunities with professional work
The Rochester Business Journal features David Long, director of RIT's MAGIC Center and MAGIC Spell Studios.
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October 6, 2019
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RIT hosts Rochester Game Festival
WROC-TV reports on the third annual Rochester Game Festival.
