Unity is one of the leading game engines for designing 2D & 3D interactive environments – the cornerstone of what many new virtual reality experiences are being built on. Using this powerful piece of software, you will learn how to create your own immersive worlds, building environments and importing characters, as well as being taught the fundamentals of adding interactivity and exporting to different platforms so that others can try out your experience for themselves.
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With the basics mastered, you will learn how to incorporate real-world references into your project and be encouraged to produce a piece of 3D journalism for your final assignment.Â
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Whether you have a keen interest in game design, have some done some basic coding or want to see what all the fuss over immersive storytelling is about – this is the class for you. You will leave with a solid understanding of 3D level design, the Unity interface and the ability to produce your own interactive video games.
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Over four three hour sessions, Dan Archer and Pierre Depaz from VR/AR storytelling agency Empathetic Media will walk you through the core concepts and potential of this transformative technology.Â
Course fee is $799. Space is limited, so don't delay. Are you eligible for a discount?
Dan Archer has created several journalistic VR experiences using the Unity software including Ferguson Firsthand published by Fusion in 2015 and Arc, an augmented reality app that features content from the Associated Press, United Nations, Columbia University’s Tow Center and the Washington Post. Dan writes about VR on Medium.
Dan Archer is the founder of Empathetic Media, a multimedia agency that uses graphic journalism, virtual and augmented reality to tell news stories in an immersive new way. He is a recognized thought leader in the VR/interactive storytelling space, having lectured and given workshops at different occasions such as: Future of Storytelling conference, Society of News Design and Online News Association among others. His work has been published among others by BBC (additionally featured in the BBC’s Future of News Report, January 2015), Canadian Broadcasting Corp., American Public Media, Vice magazine and Fusion.He is a 2016 Fellow at the Tow Center at Columbia University (New York), was a 2014 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow at the University of Missouri and 2011 Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, where he also taught non-fiction graphic novel writing 2008-14. In 2014 he was awarded the EIC/Maynard Institute grant for mental health reporting for a comic on affordable housing for the mentally ill homeless community in San Francisco, published in the San Francisco Public Press. In his spare time he meditates and rock climbs. Not together.
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