Ethan Derstine ’25 always loved stop-motion animation. A new microgrant program from Chatham’s immersive media program allowed him to make his own.

What is immersive media? “So much,” says one student. “If it tells a story, shares a message, or brings people together in a creative way, it qualifies as immersive media.”

A grant-funded project, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, will look at new ways to model 3D shapes in virtual reality.