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Scripting for VFX and Riggers

Interested in a career in technical direction? Combining your artistic talents with your technical abilities, you’ll use Python language to build a solid foundation of programming skills, which can be applied in many DCCs including Maya, Nuke, and Houdini. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 655.)

Artificial Intelligence

AI brings non-player character behavior to life in a simulated world. Building AI for a variety of game types, you’ll create a simulation game incorporating AI layering, behavior trees, planning, and communication that allows multiple AI agents to conspire against the player.

Landscape Architectural Construction Documents

Learn what it takes to put together an accurate set of construction documents. You’ll create plans, details, schedules and specifications to communicate your design intent and provide the detailed information required to permit, build and install a project. Strategies for sustainable construction and installation will be emphasized. (This course is… Read More

Dynamics 2: Fluids

Create visually appealing fluid simulations with Houdini software as seen from top visual effects production studios. You will learn how to simulate, light, shade, and render beautiful fluid visual effects using Houdini. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 744.)

Professional Practices for Visual Development

Learn the most common business practices shared by the animation, game, and film industries. You’ll create a personal career plan focusing on communication, collaboration, crowdfunding, networking, marketing, and workplace pipelines.

Textile Design: Digital Print 1

Create textile designs using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. You will integrate digital pattern creation, color application, and textile surface design, with a focus on enhancing hand-drawn elements with digital tools.

Content Creation: Editing for Genre

Editing is a powerful and essential storytelling tool for films across all genres. In this course you will examine and put into action how editing decisions enhance, refine and accentuate the performance particularly in the narrative form. You’ll use dailies from classes to practice cutting scenes for critiques. (This course… Read More

Advanced Editing: Spring

In this advanced class, you will apply your skills to edit original narrative and documentary projects shot by students in the film schools and sometimes by outside clients. You will gain extensive hands-on experience of the final post-production process under the mentorship of an industry editor and showrunner. Focus on… Read More

Game Freemium and Monetization

Learn the principles behind freemium game design and how to use monetized gameplay mechanics to generate revenue. You will gain the skills to evaluate the profitability of social and mobile free-to-play games. (This course is cross-listed with GAM 353.)

The Game Production Cycle

Game Genre Focused Projects will focus on a single project for the entirety of the semester. This project can be an already existing project or start from scratch with the intent to create a project that fits a particular game genre, development studio and is completed at a high enough… Read More