UT students across Arts and Entertainment Technologies, Game Design and Development, Computer Science and Radio-Television-Film joined forces at the Doty Fine Arts Building to showcase multiple levels of gameplay, computer graphics, soundscapes, and immersive experiences. The event offered students across each of the programs an opportunity to present their best creative work to industry partners, media, faculty, friends, and peers.
Throughout the building, hundreds of laptops were charged to display the endless creativity of these students and their agility with various creative technologies. Student projects ranged from fast-paced multi-player action games and a 2D sci-fi cooking simulation game to animated music videos, a 3D projection mapped interactive model of the UT Tower and interactive narratives exploring issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. In one semester’s worth of work, these students powered through the unknown — and a few late nights with teammates — to emerge with stunning portfolio-worthy projects for their resumes.
"It's so exciting to see such quality work across every discipline of the Arts and Entertainment Technologies program out of the classroom and in front of an audience. Each level is chock full of engaging experiences developed by our students, showing off a huge diversity of skills that they've learned in the program,” said David Cohen, Associate Department Chair for Arts and Entertainment Technologies.
Explore AET Student Work
Take a closer look at the interactive games, animations and experiences presented at Level UP from students in the Arts and Entertainment Technologies program.
Class: Senior Design Project II
Project Members: Christopher Dean Jr., Harrison Chung, Jalen Hoyt, Jasper Murphy, Zachary Zhang, Zane Giordano
Class: Senior Design Project I
Project Members: Team Galactic Chefs — Jackson Richardson, Joseph Shahum, Julia Nguyen, Kassia Raj, Nick Smeraldo
Class: Senior Design Project I
Project Members: Team Last Braincell — Alex Kohl, Alex Kong, Ashli Black, Catherine Kim, Victor Do
Class: Independent Study
Project Creator: De'sha Bass-McClellan
Class: 3D Projection Mapping
Project Members: Jasper Murphy, Zane Giordano
Class: Senior Design Project I
Project Members: Team Spacefrogs — Abigail Cole, Ashley Liu, De’sha Bass-McClellan, Nicole Rodriguez
Class: Senior Design Project I
Project Members: Andres Molina, Ben Barnes, Kate Whitmer, Max Esparza, Stephanie Wilhite
Class: Level Design
Project Members: Ashli Black, Cole Ferguson, Victor Do
Class: 3D Game Capstone
Project Members: Christopher Rice, Dani Amir, Eduardo Monroy, Jackson Goodall, Mark Salinas, Nat Briceno, Steven Callahan, Tasmiah Islam