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Creative Futures: Portfolio and Professional Identity

Artist-entrepreneurs wanted. To increase your hire-ability, you’ll develop a personal brand strategy that includes a resume, demo reel, website, social media plan, a unique logo, and a professional business name. You will also be interviewed by professional hiring managers.

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 848.)

You Media: Short Form Production 1

Short, snackable video content is on the rise. You’ll use your audio/video storytelling skills in a collaborative setting to produce, direct, shoot, and edit short form videos for a variety of media platforms.

Fashion Styling

Styling is visual storytelling. You will develop concept drawings from cultural references and assemble compelling outfits to create fashion imagery. You will put the foundations of personal, product, and editorial styling into practice.

Fashion Business: Trend Analysis

Learn tips for anticipating trends. You will study the evolutionary nature and cultural context affecting products and learn to collect, analyze, and synthesize data to predict and understand fashion trends.

Fabric and Fiber Technology

Know your textiles. Through hands-on analysis of fabric swatches, you’ll identify the properties of textiles and how they relate to performance and end use.

Designing Careers

Pursue the job you want! Hone your communication skills through collaboration, self-promotion, and other professional interactions. You will collaborate across disciplines to write a persuasive project proposal and conduct industry research for seeking out entrepreneurial and employee-based career opportunities.

History of Graphic Design

You’ll examine the pivotal events, innovations, movements, and creative thinkers that shaped contemporary design practice and the influenced the current state of graphic communication.

Organic Modeling 2

Model organic characters like professional visual effect studio modelers. This course further develops comprehensive instruction in Zbrush software for high resolution organic modeling. Course concepts include model retopology, character concept design, polypainting and texturing, transform and decimation tools, and rendering model turntables. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 656.)

Creating Physical Characters

Build characters from the outside in. You’ll explore how physical behaviors can be used to create characters and focus on rhythm, appetite, status, psychological gesture, and object manipulation. Work with masks, mime, neutral mask, clown, commedia dell’arte, and contemporary archetypes to enhance your work. (This course is cross-listed with ACT… Read More