UCD Digital Animation Center to Host Video Game Industry Legends

Greg Zeschuk, MD, and Ray Muzyka, MD

DENVER – The Digital Animation Center at the College of Arts & Media at University of Colorado Denver will host Greg Zeschuk, MD, and Ray Muzyka, MD, video game industry legends, who will give an interactive presentation to Digital Animation Center students titled The Human-Digital Connection: The growing role of digital media and charactersr today, April 27.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.

Increasingly, we live in a digital world. We’re immersed in entertainment that is computer generated. We’re constructing personal identities online and through social media. We turn to digital media for more of our entertainment and information. And we conduct an ever growing percentage of our business and daily tasks online. What’s more, a growing part of living in a digital world is interacting with digital characters. In fact, the quality and effectiveness of computer generated characters for movies, games, and the internet are transforming entertainment, engagement, and how we make emotional connections with one another. In short, these innovations in digital characters are creating human-like interactions and attachments.

Ray Muzyka, MD, and Greg Zeschuk, MD, are innovators, legendary in the video gaming industry. They are cochairmen of CodeBaby, a local internet software company. They are also cofounders of BioWare, one of the leading game companies with blockbuster titles that include Mass Effect and Dragon Age. During the presentation, Muzyka and Zeschuk will share their intriguing personal story of inventing and founding BioWare on-the-side while attending medical school as well as give a glimpse into the future of gaming and entertainment. 

Muzyka and Zeschuk will appear April 27, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. at the King Center Concert Hall on the Auraria Campus, 855 Lawrence Way, Denver.

The event is free and open to the public.

The Digital Animation Center at the UCD is committed to providing quality instruction in 3D theory and techniques intended to prepare its students to succeed. Students will be prepared to excel in a multitude of industries including feature film, broadcast, scientific visualization, medical imaging and engineering.