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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.

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.

Visualization

Visualization develops the conceptual and creative dimensions of photographic seeing. Building on the visual-language foundations of PH 115, students practice visualization, critique, and a range of conceptual strategies — light and abstraction, narrative, symbolism, context, contrast, irony, and personal style — to make images that communicate meaning.

AI for Everyone: Prompt Engineering Basics

Enter the world of generative AI and discover how it can transform design across various fields, including graphic design, advertising, fashion, photography, and architecture. Utilize tools like ChatGPT, MidJourney, Adobe Firefly, DALL-E, and Meta AI to enhance creativity, streamline processes, and innovate within your creative workflow. Engage in hands-on projects… Read More

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.

Color Science & Fabric Fundamentals

Color and fabric are concepts that drive creativity, novelty, and innovation. You will explore how fashion professionals apply color and design principles at all levels of the industry. You will study how textile fibers and other fabric characteristics affect garment performance.

Introduction to Game Development

Learn the fundamentals of game development focusing on the various disciplines and roles involved in professional video game production. You will be exposed to industry-standard tools, workflows, and best practices that drive successful studios.

Survey of Sustainable Design

Solidify your personal philosophy on sustainability. You’ll examine facts and establish opinions to create a project that applies 21st-century ideals to sustainable design and environmental issues. (This course is cross-listed with IAD 625 and IAD 380.)