Deborah R. Fowler
Student News
SCADpro x NASA Collaboration Fall 2022 / Winter 2023
Results from the SCADpro X NASA project are being released. During Earth Day the physical Terrain Builder made its debut with the Goddard Space Flight Center Team.
Chillin' with Paige and Pho — Sea Ice (Posted Feb 6, 2026)
- NASA Earth X: x.com/NASAEarth/status/2019783141242610121
- NASA Earth FB: facebook.com/reel/1653671952450066/
- NASA Earth IG: instagram.com/reel/DUa5b_BDmmD/
Chillin' with Paige and Pho — Ice Sheets (Dec 11, 2025)
- icesat-2.gsfc.nasa.gov/files/chillin-paige-and-pho-ice-sheets
- NASA Earth X: x.com/NASAEarth/status/1999162129882939445
- NASA Earth FB: facebook.com/share/r/16YeBC84tL/
- NASA Earth Insta: instagram.com/p/DSIXLwRkYGi/
Planet Paige — premieres on Winter Solstice (Dec 21, 2023)
- NASA Ice / NASA Earth repost: x.com/NASA_ICE/status/1737916126779093282
- NASA Earth Instagram: instagram.com/p/C1IPrLdrwqr/
- NASA Earth Facebook: facebook.com/reel/3597758740499309
- NASA ICE Facebook: fb.watch/p5jIVGWmj4/
Biome Buddies — printed and used at AGU conference (Dec 11–15, 2023)
Lofi Paige — Fifth Anniversary of the ICESat-2 mission (Sept 15, 2023)
- NASA Goddard YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=Z2USiCwtans
- NASA Earth Twitter: twitter.com/NASAEarth/status/1702763715131494465
- NASA Earth Facebook and NASA ICE Facebook (Oct 11)
- SCAD Instagram: instagram.com/p/CxYrte2xYX5/
- LinkedIn: LinkedIn post
- Twitter: x.com/SCADdotedu/status/1704244283681739122
- Facebook (September 19): facebook.com/scad.edu
Tourist Pho — first animation, released on NASA ICE channels on Arbor Day and Earth Day
SideFX Houdini Gallery Student Features
Congratulations to the students featured on Houdini's Gallery. Recent posts in chronological order — color indicates class/thesis project supervised by Fowler.
During 2025:
- Itim Kongsakulvatanasook — Chocolate Shop
- Itim Kongsakulvatanasook — Water Drop Automaton
- Itim Kongsakulvatanasook — The Marble Temple
- Sanika Godbole — Procedural Vine Growth
- Yiqi Zheng — Tomato Sauce
- Yilin Zhao — Ice Cream Soda
- Storm Slawson — Pirate Capybara Ragdoll
- Storm Slawson — Pirate Capybara
- Kulin Mehta — Cabin in the Woods
During 2024:
- Kulin Mehta — Bloom
- Kulin Mehta — Supra Burnout
- Ethan Nasiff, et al. — Rider
- Team Dusty: Ethan Nasiff, Anh Phan, Tempest Oh, Davis Hardy, David Geyer — Journey of Season (SCAD x The Mill NY)
- Chaithanya Kasireddy, et al. — The Drone Man
- Team SYD: Dee Divakaran, Yanni He, Sai Shashank, Mateoa Solorzano, Donnie Abrahamson, Cynthia Soe, Sawyer Bisson — Vosges Commercial
- Storm Slawson — Air Battle
- Nathan Leichner — Oh Gnome
- Gen Li (Alum) — Houdini Vernal Falls
- Davis Hardy — SCAD Startup Branding Trailer
- Zach Jantz — Watch Product Disintegration
- Storm Slawson — Underwater Scene
- Team Mountain: Dee Divakaran, Zach Jantz, Mateo Solorzano, Yeona Choi, Hannah Spillers, Bella So, Robin Uotila — Rickshaw Run
- Sunique Plante — Red Lotus Complex Scene
- Sunique Plante — Procedurally Modeled Shell Necklace
- Yanni He — Disintegration Effect
During 2023:
- Yanni He — Light Bulb
- Yanni He — Conveyor Belt with Cartons
- Wei Lou — IKEA Warehouse
- Jerilyn Tennison — Pills Dissolving
- Phirada Kanjanangkulpunt — Dry Ice Drinks
- Phirada Kanjanangkulpunt — The Flying Machine
- Avery Chang — Ragdoll Simulation
- Yanni He — Bergen Landscape
- Serena Yoon — Cookie Shop
- Pete Gong — Geisel Library Procedural Modeling
- Palm Piraban (alum) — Red Panda CG Grooming
- Phirada Kanjanangkulpunt — Dandelion's Home
- Felipe Amaya (alum) — Catharsis I
- Avery (Chun-Yen) Chang — Hogwarts Dining Hall
- Kyle Lin — Wall Destruction
During 2022:
- Maria Fernanda Hormaza Gaviria — Procedural Building
- Maria Fernanda Hormaza Gaviria — Procedural Animation
- Maria Fernanda Hormaza Gaviria — Blood Oranges
- Xiao Yuzhou (Alum) — Procedural Bacon Mushrooms
- Juweifan Wang — House
- Juweifan Wang — Marble
- Peiyu (Rey) Xue — Procedural Carousel Still
- Peiyu (Rey) Xue — Procedural Carousel Scene
- Peiyu (Rey) Xue — Robot Assembly Procedural Animation
- Peiyu (Rey) Xue — Mocap Data Animation (Pink)
- Peiyu (Rey) Xue — Mocap Data Animation (Yellow)
- Monica Chavez Trochez — Procedural Building — Haussmann Architecture
- Monica Chavez Trochez — Whale Automaton
- Monica Chavez Trochez — Oranges Basket
- Elizabeth House — Rise and Shine
- Avery Chang — Jolly Penguin
- Anderson Yang — Marble Machine
- Ruguan Liu — Norway Waterfall
- Ruguan Liu — Norway Environment
- Abinandhan Srivatsav — Star Wars Inspired Crowd Simulation
- Alex Leatherman — Marble Run
- Joleen Zhang — B1T1 Robot
- Nathan Huseth — Lego Shark Automaton
- Nathan Huseth — Kelp Forest
- Catherine Brennan — Dog Treat Bakery Display
- Kyle Lin — Catan Boardgame
- Kyle Lin — Agora Garden
- Kyle Lin — Coin Sorter
- Abinandhan Srivatsav — Dramatic Building Destruction
- Harold Wang — Lynx Point Siamese Cat
During 2021:
- Luke Vuilliomenet — Lunar Impact
- Nora Fang — Two Lab Tubes
- Nora Fang — Baking in Oven
- Nora Fang — Magic Dust Wand
- Xiao Yuzhou — Lava
- Xiao Yuzhou — Warehouse Accident
- Xiao Yuzhou — Street Crowd
- Felipe Amaya — Bioma: An Alternative Procedural Locomotion Tool
- Gen Li — Breaking Wave
- Amanda Skeith — Book and Record Sale
- Justin Myrick — CHOPs in D Major
- Ruixuan Pu — Candles
- Ruixuan Pu — Gone with the Wind
- Ruixuan Pu — Antique Bookshelf
- Ruixuan Pu — Dragon Automata
- Ruixuan Pu — Procedural Modeling — Traditional Chinese Architecture
- Felipe Amaya — Magic Book
- Nora Fang — Bear Hair Dryer
- Desmond Du — The Invisible Universe
- Elizabeth House — Farmers Market Peaches
- Kristy Huang — Bamboo Fountain
- Kristy Huang — Aloe
- Kristy Huang — Oranges
- Huy Le — Building Collapse
- Nora Fang — Fruit Sticks
- Nora Fang — Candy Cane Catapult
- Yifei Pei — Boat Burning
- Xiao Yuzhou — Steamer
- Felipe Amaya — Tadpole-like Creature Eggs
- Gen Li — Flowing Lava
- Abinandhan Srivatsav — Particle Experiment
- Yifei Pei — Snowstorm
- Joseph Chen — The Cincinnati Old Main Library
- Xiao Yuzhou — Procedural Database
- Alum Sonali Dutta — Green Crystal
- Joonho Bang — Cliff
- Yifei Pei — Houdini Ocean Fluid
- Xiao Yuzhou — Volcano
- Xiao Yuzhou — Procedural Hotel
- Chen Tang — Volcano Eruption
- Chen Tang — Mosasaurus Out of Water
- Chen Tang — Seashells
- Joonho Bang — Hamburger
- Harold Wang — Mouse Warrior
- Joonho Bang — Particle Effect
- Joonho Bang — Cosmetic Brush
- Harold Wang — Little Raccoon
- Felipe Amaya — Dohrener Tower
During 2020:
- Haritha Uppalapati — Sweet Tooth
- Felipe Amaya — Guitar vs Industrial Shredder
- Gen Li — Bubble Merge
- Joonho Bang — Vellum Peeling Effect
- Chen Tang — Red Stone
- Felipe Amaya — Vellum Peeling Off Effect
- Lita Shih — Gumball Machine
- Alum Kiersten Yahn — Hydrant Day/Night
- Alum Kushal Das — Car Fire
- Gen Li — Underwater
- Felipe Amaya — House Remedies
- Luke Vuilliomenet — Flood Water
- Chen Tang — A Venom Inspired Effect
- Luke Vuilliomenet — Flooding Stairs
- Harold Wang — Elf Walk Cycle
- Felipe Amaya — Pop Grains Circles
- Chen Tang — Kinetic Creature Running Elephant
- Chen Tang — Old Castle in the Mountain
- Gen Li — Boiling Water
- Gen Li — Tea Dipper Machine Replica
- Gen Li — Cola Can Party
Click to expand earlier entries (2019 and before)
During 2019:
- Felipe Amaya — Impossible Waterfall
- Felipe Amaya — Gear Walker
- Felipe Amaya — La Vitrola Procedural House
Previously featured:
- Jinguang Huang — SideFX Internship work and demo reel:
- Sasha Ouellet:
- Viola Lyu:
- Pam Wong-Bunten — Above the Clouds
- Meredith O'Malley — Soft Body Heart
- Ali Rizvi — Character Decomposition
- Ryan Ruiz — Goldberg Machine, Grocery Aisle, Fur Coat Simulation
Awards & Films Student Recognition
(Feb 18, 2019) Congratulations to all our students working on 91st Academy Award nominated films — 76 of the 200 names on the list graduated with a Visual Effects degree!
Sonova — winner of a Red Dot Award 2017! Congratulations Ryan, Justin and the entire team!
Ziye Liu — winner of a Red Dot Award 2016 Communication Design for Themes and Variations
Syed Ali Haider Rizvi — winner of The Rookies Internship Award 2016 — demo reel
Shango — Michael Rhima's excellent short film and his demo reel
- Featured on Farabale Weekly
- Interview Aug 8, 2016 at Animation Magazine
Sonova — 2016 — follow on Twitter and Facebook
- Official Selection — Animaze 2016
- Featured Short Film — Filmshortage.com
Watch for:
Wenie Rahardja — MFA thesis work on Vimeo
Themes & Variations by Ziye Liu (August 2015) — MFA thesis
- Red Dot Award 2016 — Communication Design — WINNER
- 49th Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival — Computer Generated / Mixed Media / 3D — PLATINUM REMI AWARD WINNER
- New Media Film Festival 2016 — BEST STUDENT FILM
- Riverrun International Film Festival 2016 — OFFICIAL SELECTION
- International Independent Film Awards 2016 — Animated Visuals — DIAMOND AWARD
- ASFF Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2016 — OFFICIAL SELECTION
- BBFF Byron Bay International Film Festival 2016 — OFFICIAL SELECTION
- Cinequest Film Festival 2016 — OFFICIAL SELECTION
- Broadway Film Festival 2016 — Experimental Film — OFFICIAL SELECTION
- The Fine Arts Film Festival 2016 — Animated Film — OFFICIAL SELECTION
No-A — Vimeo and FX breakdown — also on Twitter and Facebook
- Red Dot Award 2015
- RAINDANCE Film Festival 2015 — Official Selection
- SCAD Achievement in Animation 2015 — Official Selection