Creative Activity

Faculty Creative Activity

Faculty in the School of Cinema and Interactive Media are engaged in a number of areas related to digital media. The work on this page is not meant to be an exhaustive list. Information about other faculty work can be found on the faculty profile pages.

Animation

• Joshua Jones 3D and stop motion animation in narrative and experimental styles, was an animator on "The PJ's" and "Gary and Mike". Sound production and recording, Music production and recording
• Scott Roberts his sculptures, video installations and animations have been exhibited internationally. He also has over ten years of professional experience in television art direction, post-production, animation and 3D game art, and was the production designer for the independent film 'Making Revolution.

Computer Game Development

• Eugene Jarvis, senior fellow in gaming, created the video games Defender and Robotron. He currently leads his own game development studio, Raw Thrills, Inc.
• Joe Linhoff, has been developing published video games for over 20 years in California, Minnesota, Colorado, and Illinois. His games cover a wide range from an arcade fighting game (WarGods at Midway) to a deer hunting game (Big Buck Hunter at Play Mechanix), a dungeon adventure game (Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back at FTL Games), and educational games (Stickers, Certificate Maker at Springboard Software)
• Ed Keenan, former Executive Technology Director at Midway Games, created and led several technology groups ranging from Graphics, Tools, and Systems to a companywide Advanced Technology Group.  Ed has contributed to over 30+ different titles, most notably WarGods, Hyperdrive, the Mortal Kombat Series, NFL Blitz, NBA Ballers, Psi-Ops, Stranglehold, TNA iMPACT and Wheelman.  He’s initiated and started outsourcing development in China and in Eastern Europe.
• Alexander Seropian, game designer in residence, is the creator of Halo.
• Scott Roberts his sculptures, video installations and animations have been exhibited internationally. He also has over ten years of professional experience in television art direction, post-production, animation and 3D game art, and was the production designer for the independent film 'Making Revolution.

Documentary Filmmaking

• Scott Erlinder wrote, produced, edited and directed the photography for "Storm Warriors: Heroes of the Shipwreck Coast" for PBS in 2004.
• Joanne Zielinski is currently producing a feature-length documentary on St. Vincent de Paul.

Graphics

• Stephen Luecking Solid object applications in sculpture
• Eric Sedgwick Computational geometry and topology, visualization, American Sign Language
• Alexander Stewart Analog & digital animation techniques, digital imaging, experimental filmmaking.
• Rosalee Wolfe Communication between deaf and hearing communities, graphics pedagogy.

Human-Computer Interaction

• Craig Miller Cognitive science, computational models of human behavior, machine learning
• Adam Steele Speech Recognition

Producing

• Jonah Zeiger produced the Student Academy Award Winning short, "True Confessions of a Sushi Addict". distributed worldwide by Atom Films.
• Joanne Zielinski was the Executive Producer of the DePaul University INSIDE twenty12 series.

Screenwriting

• Matt Irvine wrote "The Hazing", winner of the Producer's Access Program and "Dark Water".