{"683021":{"#nid":"683021","#data":{"type":"news","title":"From Oscars to Emmys: Georgia Tech Alumni Transform Entertainment","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBy the early 2000s, animation had come a long way from the days of Felix the Cat and Walt Disney. Computer-rendered images replaced hand-drawn characters. And the animation process, once the sole domain of creatives, became increasingly technical and mathematical. While stirring more dynamic visuals, the shift created long, laborious projects and ignited industry-wide hunger for a more natural creative process for animation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDreamWorks Animation, the Universal Pictures\u2013owned studio behind celebrated hits like Shrek and Madagascar, tapped \u003Cstrong\u003EAlex Powell\u003C\/strong\u003E to spearhead a fix. Powell, a Georgia Tech GVU alum (GVU merged into the Institute for People and Technology in 2023) and his wife \u003Cstrong\u003EBridgette (Wiley) Powell\u003C\/strong\u003E, are both graduates of the College of Computing majoring in computer science.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOmer Inan\u003C\/strong\u003E, Regents\u2019 Entrepreneur and Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chaired Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, won an Academy Award (Oscar) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his work on a sub-miniature lavalier microphone. Inan is a faculty member of the Institute for People and Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERead more about Georgia Tech alumni accomplishments in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/issuu.com\/gtalumni\/docs\/georgia_tech_alumni_magazine_vol._101_no._1_spr\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Alumni Magazine, Spring 2025\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERamblin\u2019 Wrecks have enlivened the entertainment industry\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ramblin\u2019 Wrecks have enlivened the entertainment industry"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-07-07 13:29:17","changed_gmt":"2025-07-07 13:32:56","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-07T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677342":{"id":"677342","type":"image","title":"And the award goes to","body":null,"created":"1751894635","gmt_created":"2025-07-07 13:23:55","changed":"1751894667","gmt_changed":"2025-07-07 13:24:27","alt":"And the award goes to","file":{"fid":"261234","name":"and_the_award_goes_to.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/07\/and_the_award_goes_to.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/07\/and_the_award_goes_to.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":108936,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/07\/07\/and_the_award_goes_to.jpg?itok=RteKPQTj"}}},"media_ids":["677342"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}