Nick Jushchyshyn

Assistant Professor of Digital Media

Jushchyshyn draws on more than two decades of experience in creating visual effects for film and television. His experience includes working on feature films including “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” I am Number Four,” “Let Me In,” The Last Air Bender” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” – which won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

At Drexel he continues to push the limits of visual effects film production. He developed a 3-D camera that was used to produce an immersive, virtual reality documentary about the biomechanics of dinosaurs. He can comment on the evolving techniques and technology behind visual effects and the history of how effects have been used in motion pictures and television.

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These Philly Profs Working On VR Education, Deepfake Spotters and Tiny Robots Make Predictions for Next-gen Tech
Nick Jushchyshyn, a professor in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, and Matthew Stamm, PhD, an associate professor in the College of Engineering, were featured in a Jan. 3 Technical.ly Philly story about how their research is driving the development of next-generation technology.
Dolce & Gabbana Just Set a $6 Million Record for Fashion NFTS
Nick Jushchyshyn, a professor in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, was quoted in an Oct. 4 New York Times story about Dolce & Gabbana's $6 million physical/virtual fashion NFT.
How VR Could Transform TV News
Nick Jushchyshyn, a professor in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, was quoted in a July 15 Lifewire story about television newsrooms beginning to integrate virtual reality technology into their broadcasts.
Need a Little Christmas? There Are Several Ways To See the Nutcracker This Year.
Nick Jushchyshyn, an assistant professor and director of Drexel’s Immersive Research Lab and Brent White, director of the Jazztet and Jazz Orchestra, both in the Westphal College, were quoted in a Dec. 1 WHYY article about Drexel’s jazz orchestra which will put on a virtual concert of Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite. Students in Jushchyshyn’s lab are creating an immersive digital environment. The musicians each recorded themselves at home with green screens, then those individual performances are assembled together into a 3D digital environment, made to look like a snowy mountainside.
Virtual Reality Meets Industry Reality at Philly Universities
Nick Jushchyshyn, an assistant professor in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and director of the Immersive Research Lab, and undergraduates Travis Hove and Jen Raimondi, were quoted in a Nov. 25 WHYY.org piece about the lab and Drexel’s new BA degree in virtual and immersive media.
Check Out This Drexel-Made VR Film on a Massive Dinosaur
Nicholas Jushchyshyn, an assistant professor in Westphal College, was mentioned in an Aug. 31 Technically Philly post about a virtual reality film created by a graduate student in the College using scans of a giant dinosaur bones discovered by Drexel paleontologists.
Watch This Massive Dinosaur Come to Life in Virtual Reality
Nicholas Jushchyshyn, an assistant professor in Westphal College, was mentioned in a June 6 Technically Philly story about the development of an immersive virtual reality film featuring a 3-D recreation of a supermassive dinosaur discovered in Patagonia by Drexel researchers.

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motion platform Getting Real — Drexel Opens Lab to Study Virtual, Augmented and Immersive Reality Technology
A new lab, opening in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University, will put students and researchers in the middle of the latest visual technology. Drexel’s Immersive Research Lab is dedicated to the study and development of new virtual and augmented reality technologies and immersive media, in a space designed to allow collaboration with researchers from across the University.
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