Paul Lipsky

Voices March 22, 2019

Par excellence: The niche deserve their own COEs, too

By PHIL RUGILE // It’s a mouthful, but stay with me: The New York State Division of Science, Technology & Innovation (thankfully simplified to NYSTAR) is housed within NYS’s Empire State Development Corp. (blessedly known as ESD). This is important, because NYSTAR is the funding mechanism (to the tune of $55 million) for 13 major Centers of Excellence throughout the state – venerable institutions doing grand research and development, with impressive names like the Center…

Education September 24, 2018

Old-school art, next-gen tech converge at Five Towns

By GREGORY ZELLER // Once the pipedream of an overactive imagination, a new Interactive Computer Graphics degree program is now resetting educational and professional trends at Five Towns College. With the start of the Fall 2018 semester, the Dix Hills-based college has officially introduced its new course, the masterwork of digital innovator Paul Lipsky, who spearheaded the effort – including creation of the program curriculum – in an effort to right some wrongs he perceives…

Awards and Events April 26, 2018

Morning of a thousand stars

(Photos by Bob Giglione) A dazzling array of sensational scientists, energetic entrepreneurs and regional rainmakers gathered April 24 for the 2018 Innovator of the Year Awards. Innovate Long Island’s third-annual innovation celebration, held at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury, honored 2018 Master of Innovation Michael Faltischek, senior partner at Uniondale law firm Ruskin Moscou Faltischek and chairman of the Long Island Angel Network. The breakfast banquet also recognized more than 40 of the…

Education October 3, 2017

State OKs Five Towns computer-graphics degrees

By GREGORY ZELLER // On a mission to replace “starving artists” with “valued artists,” digital innovator Paul Lipsky has reprogrammed the book on Interactive Computer Graphics. Like, literally: With the New York State Department of Education’s blessing, Dix Hills-based Five Towns College is introducing new two- and four-year Interactive Computer Graphics degree programs based on curricula written by Lipsky, an adjunct Hofstra University instructor and CEO of Plainview-based MindYolk Animation Studio. The new degree programs…

Education January 27, 2017

For MindYolk and WDI, a true teaching moment

By GREGORY ZELLER // A multidimensional Long Island maker is rewriting the textbook on how to educate tomorrow’s manufacturing workforce – kinda literally, sorta. Paul Lipsky, CEO of Plainview-based MindYolk Animation Studio and founder of digital-creator community Long Island Visual Professionals, is about to hand in the most critical college project of his life: a complete curriculum leading to a bachelor’s of fine arts degree in interactive computer graphics, which he plans to deliver to…

Media November 28, 2016

Reality takes a twisted turn (virtually) at MindYolk

By GREGORY ZELLER // At MindYolk Animation Studios, ’tis the season … for demented clowns, undead beasts and other freakish feasts. Sure, you’re loosening your belt from leftover turkey gravy, Walk 97.5 has gone all “Jingle Bells” and the car commercials remind us incessantly that this is (largely) the season of Christmas lights and Hanukkah menorahs and the Baby Jesus (in no particular order). But at the Plainview-based 3D animation studio, it’s full-on Halloween, thanks…

IT February 21, 2016

MindYolk’s incredible Brazilian dry dock project

By GREGORY ZELLER // A third-party networking connection has taken MindYolk Animation Studios to Brazil – and brought an ambitious ship-repair consortium’s $530 million dream dock to life. At least, digital life: MindYolk CEO Paul Lipsky and a team of freelance animators spent three months constructing a meticulously digitized rendering of the proposed 600,000-square-meter repair facility, the visual spine of a five-minute video meant to attract private investors. The Brasil Basin Drydock Company is planning…

IT April 20, 2015

DEBRIEF: Paul Lipsky, MindYolk/LIVP

It takes a village. That basically defines Paul Lipsky’s hankering to unite Long Island’s creative-tech community. A digital animator with 25 years of professional experience, Lipsky is the CEO of MindYolk, a Plainview 3D animation studio, which he runs as a solopreneur with a healthy roster of freelance artists. He’s also founder of Long Island Visual Professionals, not a networking organization, per se, but a mutual-support group for entrepreneurial creators wielding digital tools. The LIVP…