Women in Animation and Women in Games International
The animation and games industries are two places where you rarely find women working, until recently. Even Cogswell has been a heavily male-dominated school until a few years ago. What’s exciting is...
View ArticleTour at Zynga
There were dogs everywhere. Perhaps that shouldn’t have been a surprise to me after seeing the huge dog logo on the massive building, but it still caught me off guard in a pleasant way. Zynga also gave...
View ArticleCogswell College Students Develop and Create 3D Animatable Rigs for 12 Unique...
This article was originally featured on the Creative Planet Network website, it was published on 2-23-2015, and is credited to Cogswell College. Sunnyvale, CA, February 23, 2015 Cogswell College, a...
View ArticleExperience at the Game Developer’s Conference
I went to my first Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) this year, thanks to Cogswell’s ASB. From March 4th-6th, I was on a mission to do as much networking and have as many portfolio reviews as possible....
View ArticleCogswell College welcomes Wajid Raza, a Lighting Technical Director at ILM
COGSWELL COLLEGE TO HOST WAJID RAZA, A LIGHTING TECHNICAL DIRECTOR AT INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC, FOR SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE MARCH 25TH Sunnyvale, CA, March 16, 2015 — Cogswell College, a leading...
View ArticleQuick Chat: Cogswell’s Assistant Professor Jonali Bhattacharyya
Randi Altman’s Post Perspective Interviews Cogswell’s Assistant Professor Jonali Bhattacharyya As the saying goes, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” This is a lesson the students in Cogswell...
View ArticleCogswell College to Host Wajid Raza, Technical Director at Industrial Light...
Sunnyvale, CA, March 16, 2015 — Cogswell College, a leading educational institution offering a unique curriculum of Digital Art & Animation, Digital Audio Technology, Game Design &...
View ArticlePixar’s Renderman now available for free!
For those not already aware of it, Pixar’s Renderman is now available for free non-commercial use! What is Renderman? Renderman is a rendering plug-in that Pixar developed for use with 3D animation...
View Article3D modeling on IOS
A company by the name of Inventery, Inc has put out a free 3D modeling and printing app called Morphi for IOS. The app gives us the ability to manipulate 3D models with a finger on an ipad and ipad...
View ArticleRecent News in Animation & more
Disney is releasing two critically acclaimed and fan favorite films from the famous Studio Ghibli on Blu-Ray! Widely considered to be a masterpiece, the Oscar award winning ‘Spirited Away’ (2002, Best...
View ArticleE3 Recap
The E3 Entertainment Expo is happening right now, among the slew of announcements comes some welcome news for any fan of Rareware (RARE) games. Microsoft and RARE are bringing a collection of 30 of...
View ArticleProject X’s Driven – Partial Team Retrospective
Recently, we touched base with some of the team members/Cogswell Students that had worked on the Project X short film, Driven. Given that no press has been generated other than a short blurb on the...
View ArticleStudents at Cogswell College spend 48 hours developing games
The following article originally on the Mercury News website, February 4th 2015. It was written by Jasmine Leyva of the Mercury News. It covers the 2015 Global Game Jam event at Cogswell, and offers...
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