2021 DMAE News

Four years ago Robin Leboe and Rick Beaton attended RedStick 2017 and gave us a preview of sessionwire live at the Digital Media Center. It is an all-in-one professional platform for remote recording. With most studios forced to work remotely it is pretty precient of their entry into this space…

This is a unique opportunity for LSU students to interact with technical and art professionals in the video game industry. EA has very kindly spared some time form their very talented roster of staff. We have a list of speakers for our two events Art Jobs in Game Development. We will be joined by:…

For the last year LSU has been working on a grant to develop a program that is on the cutting edge of taking old filmaking practices (rear screen projection) and updating it to using real-time video game engine backgrounds in a LED volume. This merges the latest development in video game rendering…

Congratulations to Cody Louviere, Sarah Kent and the entire team at King Crowe studios for their $6.5M dollar SBIR Phase III contract for a digital twin of aircraft and equipment. Sarah, a LSU DMAE grad in 2020 has continued to work at King Crowe studios after she graduated. It is nice to see so…

CSL Esports Grand Finals will be hosted together with Esports at LSU. This is an exciting chance for our institution to be at the forefront of competitive video gaming. Esports is becoming more and more ubiquitous as serious multiplayer video games take the main stage across campuses in the US. Crea…

Chris White from Weta was up at LSU for Redstick in 2018 and shared some of the amazing work that they do in New Zealand. Chris was recently featured on Matt Wallin's podcast 8111. Chris is interviewed on the April 19 episode. These long form podcast formats really let the interviewer get deep…

For talented LSU students that have already graduated or are graduating this spring an opportunity has arisen in UX instruction. A southern instituion is building a brand new User Experience Design program for undergraduate students at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. The program will be…

An independant team has been wroking on a new MOBA shooter and they are looking for testers for a closed Alpha. This gives you an opportunity to not only have some fun, contribute to the betterment of a game – but get a better understanding of how a project moves from Alpha to Shippable in a large…

For students who are looking at networking for future jobs or internships – this is a perfect opportunity. The added advantage is that it is virtual and free. I have included the key information below. The tenth anniversary of Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week has arrived, and despite…