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Model Making – Fall

The ability to communicate your design ideas in quick and accurate ways is a valuable skill. Through design and modeling projects, you will learn to make design models for industrial design evaluation.

Vector, Matrices,and Transformations

Matrix operations are used to perform transformations such as translations, rotations, and scale. Using the mathematics of 3D vectors—including dot and cross product applications—you’ll learn to solve linear systems with matrices.

Hard Surface Modeling 2

Concentrate on NURBS modeling. You’ll learn to convert NURBS models into polygon models and explore the differences between polygonal and NURBS modeling. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 412.)

Hard Surface Modeling 2

Concentrate on NURBS modeling. You’ll learn to convert NURBS models into polygon models and explore the differences between polygonal and NURBS modeling. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 682.)

English for Art Purposes 1

Use your English language skills to navigate Academy of Art University and American culture. Through discussion, writing, presentation, and critique, you’ll learn to communicate successfully both in and out of the classroom.

Game Genre Focused Projects

Game Genre Focused Projects will focus on a single project for the entirety of the semester. This project can be an already existing project or start from scratch with the intent to create a project that fits a particular game genre, development studio and is completed at a high enough… Read More

Portfolio

You’ll develop a refined, focused, and cohesive body of work that represents your skills and artistic vision in this capstone course. Based on your professional goals, you will create a physical portfolio and written peripherals that you will present to future employers or potential clients upon graduation.

Corsetry and Underpinnings

Create corsetry as both outer garment and underpinning. You will cut and construct different styles and shapes of corsets to use with draped design ideas, producing finished pieces.

Node-Based Compositing 1

Learn advanced compositing techniques such as keying, float color space, and tracking. You’ll focus on developing your artistic eye, attention to detail, troubleshooting skills, and maintaining rigorous image quality standards.

Cinematography for VFX

Setup lighting, green screen, and tracking markers the way professional VFX supervisors understand for both studio post-production and Indie type “guerrilla” filmmaking. You’ll learn new digital camera operation and sensor types and how to best record on set VFX elements for successful compositing and integration with digital elements.