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AI Empowered Creativity

Learn the essentials of AI-driven strategy, research, and design to excel in brand communications. Be empowered to innovate in a tech-focused industry by leveraging the latest AI tools. Create a brand and launch it through an AI-integrated campaign, showcasing your ability to synthesize and apply essential skills.

AI for Designers

You will embark on an immersive journey, blending traditional principles with multiple AI applications to develop portfolio quality design work. Beginning with an exploration of AI’s impact on graphic design and ethical considerations, the course progresses through fundamental design principles, generative AI applications, seamless workflow integration, and collaborative concept generation. Read More

Combat Design

Learn to create a semester-long 2D melee-focused brawler or hack-n-slash game. The combat will focus on a three-hit melee combo with supplemental ranged attacks. The hero of the game can be anything from a cute sword-wielding knight to a bare-knuckles brawling street fighter. Enemy archetypes are discussed and implemented to… Read More

2D Digital Cutout

Gain various ink, paint, and compositing skills to work in digital commercial animation production. You’ll learn storyboarding, animatics, painting, compositing, and post-production. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 648 and ANM 368.)

AI for Designers

You will embark on an immersive journey, blending traditional principles with multiple AI applications to develop portfolio quality design work. Beginning with an exploration of AI’s impact on graphic design and ethical considerations, the course progresses through fundamental design principles, generative AI applications, seamless workflow integration, and collaborative concept generation. Read More

Game Studio – Art (Fall)

The Collaborative Project class models the workflows, pipelines, and interdisciplinary environment of a professional game development studio. Students studying Game Art will generate concepts and 2D and 3D assets with the goals of creating portfolio-ready work and potentially releasable, published projects on a variety of platforms. The fall section of… Read More

Lip Sync and Facial Performances

Create the strong facial performances of advanced character animators. You’ll learn to use your face and eyes to subtly convey emotions and thought processes. Plus, you’ll learn the mechanics of lip-sync and apply them to your character animations. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 324.)

3D Realistic Animation

Animate scenes commonly found in visual effects work including vehicles, motion capture, and animation for live-action plates. Reference will be analyzed to understand movement and muscles. You will apply research and physics to block and animate creatures as well as humans. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 325.)

Corporate Sponsored Project: Product Design

In this corporate sponsored project, students will be given a project directly by the sponsor. Students will produce product design concepts based on the sponsor’s project brief and will make adjustments based on sponsor feedback. Emphasis will be placed on concept, research, refinement, deliverables, presentation, and meeting project objectives. (This… Read More

The Creative Process

Artists and designers are creative problem solvers. Explore the art and science of creativity. You’ll analyze your own creative process to find strengths and develop solutions-based skills that will help you realize your creative potential. (This course is cross-listed with LA 125.)