Last week I got a scare that The Power of the Dark Crystal, the sequel to Henson’s The Dark Crystal that Genndy “Samurai Jack” Tartakovsky has been prepping for two years, had been axed. Now this morning’s jog around the Internet reveals news from the Muppet Central Forum that the hiatus was just a rumor. There’s still enough murkiness around the whole scenario to make my magic 8 ball claim “outlook unclear”, but at this point I’m going to hope and pray that Brian and Lisa and Genndy are still, as the report suggests, on track to debut the film at Cannes in 2008 — both for the sake of my personal fanboy nature and for the sake of my THESIS!
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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