Posts Categorized: General News

Peek Behind The Curtain With ETC’s 2024 Fall Festival

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On December 6th, 2024, members of the ETC and CMU community gathered together to celebrate the incredible work ETC students have done this semester. Fall Festival is an ETC tradition. Started by Randy Pausch as part of the Building Virtual Worlds course, it was originally a stage showcase in McConomy Auditorium before eventually taking the… Read more »

A Message from the Director

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Dear ETC Community,  I’ve been at the ETC for just over a month, and I just wanted to thank everyone for welcoming me so warmly. Between connecting with all of you and being introduced to the incredible work already happening here, it’s been the best kind of whirlwind. (And I’d be remiss if I didn’t… Read more »

ETC Students Connect With Local Entertainment Technology Professionals

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by Hannah Kobre On October 3rd, ETC students gathered in the Randy Pausch Interdisciplinary Studio (RPIS) for a panel featuring locally-based entertainment technology professionals — many of whom were ETC alums themselves — talking about their career paths.  The panel was organized by ETC Associate Director and Career Consultant, Student Affairs Amanda Anderson as part… Read more »

Oct 2024 ETC Community Achievements

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By Hannah Kobre Over 20+ years, the Entertainment Technology Center has built an incredible community of faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Through their shared commitment to innovative, interdisciplinary work, the ETC community has consistently been recognized for their artistic and technical achievements — including, this month, sweeping an entire Emmys category. Alumni Achievements Martin Montgomery… Read more »

Second-Year Student Nina Wang Finds Her “Flow” in ETC’s State-of-the-Art Facilities

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ETC Student Nina Wang performs in the CMU Motion Capture Lab (Credit: “Flow” team)

by Hannah Kobre In Spring 2024, second-year Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) student Nina Wang (ETC ‘25) led a team of ETC students on ”Flow” — a one-of-a-kind project meant to utilize the state-of-the-art facilities on offer at the ETC. In fact, the project was specifically conceived with one of those facilities in mind: the CAVERN…. Read more »

ETC Faculty Member Moshe Mahler’s Short Film Honored With Best in Show

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In 2017, Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) Assistant Teaching Professor Moshe Mahler began working on his short film “The Art of Weightlessness.” Almost seven years later, Mahler’s film has won Best in Show at this year’s SIGGRAPH conference. “When I finished the film in 2023,” Mahler said, “my son pointed out that this film took his whole life to make!”

ETC Class of 2024

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On Sunday May 12, 2024 the ETC honored 68 students as we held the 2024 Diploma Ceremony at Acrisure Stadium . Following dinner, with fellow classmates, family, ETC faculty and staff, the latest group of ETC alumni received their Master of Entertainment Technology degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. During the ceremony, this year’s ETC Alumni… Read more »

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