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Maria Palazzi was awarded a $28,000 grant from Women & Philanthropy in support of the summer program: Digital Animation: A Technology Mentoring Program for Young Women. Women &…
Melissa Quintanilha combines technical savvy, an artist's passion for design, and a global perspective that comes from growing up in Brazil; to design a car that doesn't just drive, but learns who…
Nikki Lemon’s MFA thesis film Wonder is an official selection for screening in the Le Femme International Film Festival in Beverly Hills, CA and the Philadelphia Film &…
Rebekah Edie, a 4th year undergraduate Dance major at OSU, is concentrating in Choreography & Technology and minoring in Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies. Bekah won 3rd place at the Denman…
ACCAD extends enthusiastic congratulations to ACCAD Alumni who helped create the Oscar winning films, Life of Pi and BRAVE. Life of Pi, about a boy stranded at sea with…
Kellen Maicher won first prize in the Arts Category at the Edward F Hayes 2013 Graduate Research Forum. Kellen's presentation was entitled, Designing Interactive Affective Virtual…
ACCAD was recently recognized for its excellence in preparing students in the discipline of animation. Animation Career Review recognized ACCAD as the #2 animation program in the Midwest and…
Built in 1916 as the original home to the Ohio Historical Society, Sullivant Hall will be refurbished to a LEED Silver-certified home for ACCAD, the Department of Dance, the Billy Ireland Cartoon…
Fran Kalal (MFA, Design, 2008) returned to ACCAD November 7th & 8th to give a presentation about working at PIXAR. Fran met with animation graduate students to review their portfolios and provide…
Twentieth Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios announced plans to make a feature film based on Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts”. The film release in 2015 will coincide…
ACCAD and OSU were pleased to welcome Steve Martino to campus for a full agenda on October 4 & 5. Along with several distinguished alumni, Steve gave a special presentation during the But For Ohio…
ACCAD | Ohio State Alumni were recently featured in Ohio news for their "home" town connections with 2 summer blockbusters: Brave and Ice Age 4 Continental…
BalletMet Columbus approached ACCAD last year about creating a new performance entitled, DanceTech. Alan Price agreed to collaborate. Alan worked with Choreographer …
ACCAD was pleased to welcome Senior Recruiter Deb Stone and Lighting TD Jasmine Katatikarn. After an overview presentation about Blue Sky, Ms. Katatikarn gave a…
ACCAD recently upgraded our motion capture system to a Vicon MX 40Ts system. This system enables us to increase the quality of captured data to under 1mm accuracy (previously 2mm). The Vicon MX…
City Life was performed February 24 & 25, 2012 at the Capitol Theater, Columbus as part of the Drums Downtown event created by the OSU School of Music, in collaboration with the…
The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) hosted visiting artist Claudia Hart for a lecture February 9th. Hart, who is active as an artist, curator and critic,…
Robert Flowers was a guest lecturer at ACCAD during Winter 2012. Dr. Flowers has been making films and videos since 1985. He received his Ph.D. in Humanities – Major in Aesthetic Studies from the…