Oregon Story Board is holding office hours this Friday, beginning at 3pm – “learn all about Oregon Story Board by socializing with OSB staff and board members as well as the Digital Storytelling community that surrounds it.”
Read more here. Continue reading... “Oregon Story Board Holds Office Hours This Friday”
You may remember recently that Clackamas Community College and Oregon Story Board received a $100,000 grant to develop skilled workers and new programs around the Microsoft HoloLens – well – Lund explained to the Portland Business Journal, on why Portland is perfectly placed to make a splash in the new world of virtual and augmented reality development. Read the article here.
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Peter Lund is COO at SuperGenius studio. He also serves as Chair of the Oregon Games Organization, Vice Chair of the Clackamas County Economic Development Commission and on the Clackamas Workforce Partnership board. Continue reading... “Peter Lund On Game-Making In Oregon & Our Place In The Future Of VR & AR”
New work from Bryan Thompson and Jeremiah L Scott!!! Great PNW Talent…Katie Michels (actor), Sean McGrath , Aris Juson and Spencer Baylis Conway nailed it.
Wife — Katie Michels
Husband — Sean Mcgrath
Loan Officer — Aris Juson
Assistant Loan Officer — Spencer Conway
Writer & Director & Producer — Bryan R. Thompson
Director of Photography — Jeremiah L. Scott
PA- Benjamin James
Gaffer: Steve Waters
Sound: Jeff Scott Taylor
Editor & Color: Bryan R. Thompson
Hair & Make-up / Costume Design — Alicia Watkins
Laika uses stop-motion animation techniques to bring their characters to life, but with hundreds of puppets needed for the process it is painstaking to create the many expressions and movement needed to make the action fluid. The studio overcame this by becoming early adopter’s of the 3-D printing process that enabled them to create the many minuscule changing facial features without losing any of the artistry that goes into each puppet. Continue reading... “Laika Wins Technical Oscar’s Award For 3-D Printing Technology”
Tonight, OPB-TV will re-broadcast “Don’t Wait for the Quake,” an event hosted by Oregon Public Broadcasting and the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication (SOJC) on Nov. 17. The program will air at 9pm PT, and although tonight’s show won’t be live, A Fourth Act’s audience engagement tool Harvis will be.We invite you to join in.
Some background: To promote public awareness and catalyze conversation, OPB and the SOJC convened a public forum on Nov. 17 about earthquake readiness in Oregon. Continue reading... “OPB And UO-SOJC To Air “Don’t Wait for the Quake” With Broadcast Audience Engagement Tool”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA
Microsoft’s HoloLens Academic Grant was awarded to five educational institutions nationwide, along with two Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition devices, to each recipient, to further aid their research and development of their respective projects. Clackamas Community College and OSB will use the HoloLens technology to “develop a trade-based curriculum for Clackamas students, particularly students in the automotive program”.
Microsoft HoloLens is the first fully untethered, holographic computer, enabling high-definition holograms to integrate with your world. Unlock all-new ways to connect, create, collaborate, and explore. Continue reading... “Clackamas Community College And Oregon Story Board Awarded $100,000 Microsoft Grant”
Google’s Trekker Camera is slowly bringing it’s technology to the trail. This summer volunteers from the Oregon Wild organization (formerly the Oregon Natural Resources Council or ONRC) offered to carry the Trekker and hike some of Oregon’s most beautiful trails in order to bring a “street view” to the public and is so doing, bringing attention to conservation lands in Oregon. OPB covered the story and you can read more here.
Update: Also, Oregon Wild have a film festival that kicks off September 9th “Speaking For The Trees” at the Bijou Arts Cinemas in Eugene. Continue reading... “Google Trekker Brings It’s Camera Technology To The Oregon Wilderness”
Elemental Technologies, Inc., one of Portland’s fastest growing tech companies, announced today that they have joined forces with Amazon Web Services, Inc. According to CEO, Sam Blackman, the acquisition will enable Elemental to “accelerate the development and adoption of (our) software-defined video platform”. Elemental specializes in “high-speed video encoding and transcoding software” that can “provide multiscreen content delivery to audiences on any screen or device”. Their headquarters are based in Portland, with offices in the UK, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. Continue reading... “Amazon Aquires Elemental Technolgies”
Technology has not only changed the way filmmakers tell stories, it’s creating new types of stories to tell. The Portland Film Festival explores this new wave ofstorytelling again this year with the Storyworlds program on Saturday, September 5th. Storyworlds invites you to learn more out more about transmedia, virtual reality, augmented reality, and ways to hone your creative idea to build an audience.
How are national TV shows using transmedia? Find out from Geoffrey Colo, transmedia producer for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Continue reading... “The Future of Storytelling at Portland Film Festival”
ZipRecuiter placed Eugene in the top ten list of tech job growth cities across the US this week. Joe Maruschak (RAIN – Regional Accelorator & Innovation Network) said, “it reflects that our local efforts to organize the tech community here are being noticed.” ZipRecruiter analyzed the hiring behavior in US cities and watched for the ones that had the highest growing tech jobs. According to the Register Guard, “Eugene-Springfield’s tech community has come a long way in the past few years. Continue reading... “Eugene On Top 10 List Of Emerging Tech Cities”