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StudioX for Compositing

Students will composite shots in a production environment. This class focuses on skills that will be beneficial to surviving in a real production environment. Shot dailies will be held weekly with production notes published to the class that will push students’ work to a higher level. (This course is cross-listed… Read More

Real World Lighting

Communicate using light. Learn practical skills using various light shaping tools and industry equipment. Explore the visual impact of your photos by adjusting the color, direction, and quality of light. Gain hands-on experience using lighting equipment. Explore how quality of light affects concept and mood in numerous photographic applications. (This… Read More

Wheel Formed Sculpture

Gain the ability to make cylinders, bowls, and discs on a potter’s wheel. You will use these shapes to create sculptures, an practice low temperature firings like raku. (This course is cross-listed with FASCU 338.)

Studio 4: Assembly Building and Context

Theaters are cultural institutions for collective story-telling. Design a theater by developing a critical viewpoint on the role of society, community, and culture. You will develop a design methodology through the analysis of the site as well as a cultural artifact. Iterative use of hand drawing, physical model-making, and digital… Read More

Dynamics 1for FX TDs, Riggers

You’ll learn key CG effects techniques to generate dynamic simulations of real-world phenomena for film effects. Gain a solid foundation. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 242.)

Studio 5: Advocacy in Design

Take a stance on the role of architecture in our urban environments. Through the design of a public building, you’ll advocate for and engage with under-served communities. Your honest inquiry of the urban fabric and the diversity of its inhabitants will create a responsive, empathetic program and a building proposal. Read More

Photo and Video Production

Those who create fashion images have considerable control over the creative vision of a project. You will learn and use production logistics and protocols to concept, organize, and style a fashion photo shoot and video. (This course is cross-listed with FSH 284.)

Product Development: Digital Solutions for Design and Development

Get versed on product lifecycle management software (PLM) and 3D garment virtualization software. You will explore the garment prototype development and approval prior to production using industry software. Create style information, including bill of materials and style specifications in PLM, and create 3D garments from your style details using virtualization… Read More

Animal and Creature Animation

You will create animations that mimic real and stylized animal locomotion. Realistic creature rigs and animal reference will be analyzed to understand movement and muscles. You will apply research and physics to block and animate a quadruped. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 627.)

Costume Design Production

Theatre is a collaboration. You will work with the script, directors, actors, lighting crews, fellow costume designers, and others to produce original costumes for a real production locally or at the Academy. Learn to develop designs on paper, realize them in 3D, and provide appropriate documentation. (This course is cross-listed… Read More