The Power of Immersive and Interactive Storytelling with Tad Leckman

This episode will feature Tad Leckman, the Director of Learning
and Development at Activision Blizzard. Tad has a background in
entertainment and education, spending the past twenty years
focused on the learning and development of artists, designers,
writers, and engineers. He had built a successful career as a
digital artist and supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic,
worked on critically acclaimed series like Clone Wars, Star Wars:
The Force Unleashed video games, and taught full-time at the
University of California Santa Cruz. 


In this episode, Tad and our hosts delve into the deep end of CGI
and special effects, with Tad applying his unique experiences to
growing technologies in AR and the Metaverse. The conversation
also focuses on the development of storytelling in immersive
technologies, with particular attention given to the ways in
which techniques honed in traditional media like movies and
theatre productions can be transferred to the creation of virtual
worlds.