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Making Creative Choices for Camera

In this scene study class, you will practice your core acting skills and apply them while working camera. Gain hands-on experience bringing contemporary film/tv scripts to life. Play scenes in multiple takes and out of linear order. Learn to recognize the energetic requirements of various shot choices and play in… Read More

Automotive Design Studio

You will learn the creative process of automotive design, from doing market research to design sketching to digital and clay modeling. You will finalize a design in the appropriate media for your project that meets the design objective established by your research. (This course is cross-listed with IND 699ADS.)

Storyboarding for Cinematic Effect

Take a deep dive into how to structure interesting camera angles and impactful cinematic compositions for storyboarding. You’ll learn how to draw, stage, and pitch story sequences for animated and live action storyboards. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 772.)

Songwriting in Popular Music

Explore the history, techniques, and styles of pop music. You’ll learn to write and arrange songs in various genres and forms.

Design Competition

The challenge is to design a product that does not currently exist. You’ll focus on invention, innovation, sustainability, and intensive research. You’ll apply all skills learned to your final presentations, including developmental sketches, orthographic drawings, sketch models, sketch renderings, and either digital 3D models or hard models.

Organic Modeling 3

The production industry continues to evolve, demanding more from the emerging artist. To understand the mechanics of motion in the musculoskeletal system of the human body, you’ll pose and sculpt models with accurate balance, weight, and anatomy.

Environment Modeling for Games: Principles

Study 3D game art production for environments. You will gain block out, UV mapping, texturing, and iterative development skills to develop your 3D scenes. Plus, learn to identify the best modeling practice for a given environment.

Spanish 2: Conversational Spanish

Increase your cultural awareness and conversational Spanish skills. Through experiences and true-to-life situations, you’ll learn idioms, useful phrases, and conversational patterns in Spanish.

Art of the Italian Baroque

Study Italian art and architecture from 1600 to 1700 through an appraisal of the art in its context alongside a close reading of primary and secondary source material.

The Rendered Figure

Learn proportions and structure of the human figure. Gain chiaroscuro skills in the correct application of light/shadow, centering, as well as advancing/receding light to describe the figure as dimensional form. Draw from both nude and clothed figure, focusing on proportions, rhythm, stretch, compression, and expression. Learn to edit, idealize, and… Read More