“The Incident at Tower 37” by Perry
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Title:
- The Incident at Tower 37
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- Hampshire College
Description:
“The Incident at Tower 37” continues the debate about the ownership, use, and exhaustion of natural resources. It also represents a new direction in undergraduate animation education, built on a sophisticated set of student-developed, open-source production management and support tools. T he film began in an interdisciplinary group-based class at Hampshire College. The goal was to bring together studio artists, animators, filmmakers, composers, and programmers to produce a high-end computer-animated film. Although collaborative work is produced regularly in the industry and in some graduate programs, Hampshire is one of the few undergraduate institutions committed to including this kind of experience in its curriculum. With limited classroom time available, a system was developed to facilitate communication and collaboration between crew members. T his led to the birth of a browser-based package built to support the needs of producers, managers, animators, and technical directors. Both the film and the software matured together, and now “The Incident at Tower 37” is complete, and the suite of tools, called Helga, is an open-source resource available to the animation community. www.hampshire.edu www.bitfilms.com www.helgaproject.org
