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Refining Layouts in Ink

Working either traditionally or digitally, use inking to elevate your work. You’ll gain the inking skills to create mood, add definition, and convey a sense of dimension to augment your penciled sequential images. (This course is cross-listed with ILL 392.)

Visual Systems 1

Expand your design skills into complex business, cultural, and sociological systems. Your formal design abilities, conceptual fluency, and technical know-how will enable you to construct meaningful imagery and resonant experiences that can be extended into broader patterns of reader and user engagement.

After Effects for Professional Editors

Build the skills you need to create innovative effects, compositing, and motion graphics. You’ll get a working knowledge of industry-standard editing software, gaining the skills that are in high demand worldwide.

Photography

Learn to use your smartphone to create visually dynamic images like a pro. In this course, you will be introduced to the technical and creative aspects of photography using mobile phone capture technology and post-processing tools. Creative use of color, light, framing and composition will be applied to the creation… Read More

Concept and Image

Now that you have passed your MFA Midpoint Review, you will receive guidance and individualized critique as you refine your thesis concept, address project challenges, advance your research, and create images for your thesis portfolio.

History of Aesthetics

Explore the concepts of truth, beauty, artistic form, unity, expression, representation, and taste by reading philosophers and artists, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Croce, Henri, Rodin, and Hughes.

Scene Study

Create dynamic characters and performances. In this scene study class, work with a range of material and rehearsal techniques while refining your skills as a professional actor.

Shot in a Day

Astronaut training camp for directors! Here, you’ll guide a professional cast and crew through a professional shoot day. Tackling 5-7 page scenes and working within a set time-frame, you will learn industry methods and protocol, taking your directorial skills to the next level. As close as it gets to the… Read More

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

Product Innovation with Generative AI

Leverage the potential of Artificial Intelligence in product design! Through an understanding of AI technology and generative AI design principles, you will learn to create adaptive user experiences that seamlessly integrate AI technology and content, culminating in product prototypes and case studies.