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Directed Study

Refine your skills. As a Master of Fine Arts degree candidate, you’ll complete course assignments to develop the conceptual, design, and technical skills needed to successfully complete your MFA Thesis Project and/or portfolio. You must have passed your midpoint review. Director approval required. Fees and prerequisites will vary by topic.

Motion Capture for Animators, Riggers

Enter the exciting world of motion capture! Using industry-specific software, you’ll capture, clean, and animate your own motions while learning important industry techniques for your individual motion capture project. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 626.)

Motion Capture for Animators, Riggers

Enter the exciting world of motion capture! Using industry-specific software, you’ll capture, clean, and animate your own motions while learning important industry techniques for your individual motion capture project. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 326.)

Directed Study

Refine your skills. As a Master of Fine Arts degree candidate, you’ll complete course assignments to develop the conceptual, design, and technical skills needed to successfully complete your MFA Thesis Project and/or portfolio. You must have passed your midpoint review. Director approval required. Fees and prerequisites will vary by topic.

Fashion Business: Thesis Market Research

Synthesize market research into effective strategy. You will gather and analyze various macro- and micro-level market, industry, and consumer data to assess market conditions and forecast fashion trends across cultural and industry contexts. Then you will apply your findings to strategize a business or a brand for product line and… Read More

Fall Painting Studio

You will be given an opportunity to expand upon your chosen direction along with producing in class work and homework. You will be guided in terms of quality, concept, and your own personal vision.

Product Design: Ergonomics

There’s a lot to consider when designing handheld consumer products. Ergonomics will be discussed in-depth and you will apply research, ideation, and problem-solving to develop your concepts. You will apply all skills learned to your final presentations, including developmental sketches, orthographic drawings, sketch models, and renderings.

Visual Communication for Game Designers

This course focuses on developing visual design and communication skills for video game designers. Topics include: wireframes, graphic design, UI/UX, basic sketching, and verbal presentation. Students use industry-standard digital tools and vocabulary to efficiently and accurately convey their game play ideas and create graphic presentations.

3D Texture Painting

Take your painting skills to the next level, learning to hand paint textures and create shaders for richly detailed organic objects and creatures, down to micro details of skin pores and wrinkles. A great class for both modelers and lookdev artists. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 357.)

Tambour Embroidery

Embroidery for haute couture. You will develop hands-on tambour embroidery techniques, incorporating embroidery designs into your garments as you design and construct them. Learn how the history of beading applies to fashion design.