Michael Tsai's online digital portfolio

Digital Dream Lab – ETC LBE project Spring 2012

mtsai — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:45:31 +0000

Our focus this semester is to explore how a digital creation experience can function in the Makeshop. With a current gap and request to bring programming concepts into the process, we have proposed a tangible block interface to teach the basics through a storytelling framework. The physical blocks will represent characters, actions, modifiers, etc. in the digital space, and a projector will provide a window for children to explore and create!

http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/digital-dream-lab/

The Somnambulist – ETC film project Fall 2011

mtsai — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:51:39 +0000

Here’s the VFX reel of what we accomplished at Fall 2011 and the wiki page for tracker-less motion capture system from Organic Motion.

http://wiki.etc.cmu.edu/organic-motion

Article about CSI: Crime Scene Innovation

mtsai — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:39:47 +0000

This semester I also spent my time to write an article for Imagine magazine from Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY). The article explained what I was working on for project CSI at ETC.

Here’s the PDF format of the article.
tsaimichael.com/my_webpages_stuff/new_media_spread.pdf

Here’s the link to the digital version of the full issue.
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/imagine/20110506_DMI

Full sequence of firing bullet in to water tank

mtsai — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:11:57 +0000

Sneak peak for CSI: Crime Scene Innovation

mtsai — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:48:39 +0000

Project CSI:Crime Scene Innovation

mtsai — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:46:53 +0000

This is the project that I am involved this semester. And here is our team blog/website.

http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/csi

BVW show 2010

mtsai — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:37:51 +0000

So this is the video stream that I’ve participate with my grad school classmates for last semester. Come to check our works and worlds!!!

Spectrum rush is the world I worked on.

For the full video of the show, just open windows media player and hit Ctrl + U then paste the link mms://wms.andrew.cmu.edu/001/ETC/BVW2010.wmv

Enjoy!!!

Congrats to my ex-classmates @ AAU

mtsai — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:05:29 +0000

Congrats to my ex-classmates Chung-Pu Hsiao and Ho-Jung Hung who passed their thesis and graduated on Spring 2010.

Here are their website links for their thesis and works through out these 3 years @ AAU.

www.chungpuvfx.com

www.hojungvfx.com

Check out their hard works!!!

Switch to WordPress

mtsai — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:13:12 +0000

Recently moved old website contents to blog format by using WordPress.
Few more things will add back to main page and get ready for ETC fall 2010 @ CMU – Pittsburgh.