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Breaking through the Noise of Social Media

No matter what you make-app, fashion line, game, product, film-social media marketing creates an impact. You’ll learn to secure funds, and practice building your brand, attracting supporters, and navigating multitudes of social media channels to bring your dream project to life. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 204, LA 204,… Read More

Fashion Business: Digital Techniques

Use professional software to communicate visual information. Learn to work fluidly between programs to create fashion line layout, concept boards, and detailed specification for reproduction.

Traditional Animation 3

You must make strong acting choices to give your animated characters dynamic personalities. You’ll expand your digital tool repertoire by applying skills in advanced draftsmanship, detail, lip-sync, digital clean-up, and color.

Wildlife Painting 1

Take a walk on the wild side. This course is open to Illustrators, Painters, and Animators. Visit zoos, ranches, farm, or wildlife sanctuaries to observe, sketch, photograph, and develop color studies on animals. Using the medium of your choice, you’ll create strong compositional paintings of animals and the real or… Read More

Industrial Design Processes

Learn the fundamentals of design thinking. You’ll discover the art, science, and business aspects of design. You’ll learn through various design process techniques how to solve problems creatively.

Creative Sound Design for Visual Media

Sound design is a powerful storytelling tool. Increase your abilities in audio editing, psychoacoustics, plug-ins and mixing to develop soundtracks based on script and character analysis. You’ll also collaborate intelligently with directors, editors, and composers.(This course is cross-listed with MUS 643.)

Heads and Hands

Attention Illustration, Visual Development, Animation, and Fine Art students: take this class. You’ll focus on the form and structure of the head and hands to create dynamic drawings that include expressions and emotions.

Photo Design and Concept

You’ll combine contemporary composition and design skills with the personality and style of your work to produce creative concepts.

Urban Landscape

Cityscapes are dynamic, complicated places. Learning to paint cars and buses, buildings, and people as objects or shapes will help you develop the principles of dramatic light and shadow, atmospheric perspective, focal point, and perspective. (This course is cross-listed with FA 607.)

History and Techniques of Character Animation

Understand the artistic and technological history of animation. You’ll examine different regional styles, animation as a reflection of society, early attempts to break the 3D curse, and how the earlier works are referenced in today’s animation.