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VIS for Character Design and Video Games

Students will explore the process of development for animated and live action films by taking an idea from concept to completion. There will be a focus on composition, figure drawing, character design, perspective, storytelling, color and value, and thumbnail sketches. Students will produce a final cinematic painting.

Architecture in Action

Architecture is designing experiences for people using form, light, textures, and proportions that reference the human scale. Develop your design intent using scaled representations of spaces. Then fabricate full-scale creations working collaboratively. Through field trips, experience San Francisco through the eyes of an architect and discover how architectural spaces shape… Read More

Lighting Intensive

Spend a week on-campus learning studio lighting in this hands-on, immersive experience! You will work in the lighting studios, using a variety of professional lighting equipment, and will learn to apply these skills with ongoing guidance in your home studio as you continue with the online portion of the course. Read More

Lighting Intensive

Spend a week on-campus learning studio lighting in this hands-on, immersive experience! You will work in the lighting studios, using a variety of professional lighting equipment, and will learn to apply these skills with ongoing guidance in your home studio as you continue with the online portion of the course. Read More

Open Studio

In this open studio course, students propose, conceptualize and create individual photography projects with guidance and critique from their instructor and peers. This course provides a great opportunity to start a new body of work or continue with an ongoing project of choice. (This course is cross-listed with PH 699SU.)

Shooting the Web Series

Students will work in a real world television series environment to produce, direct, shoot, production design, and edit multiple episodes of a web series. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 498SWS and MPT 699SWS.)

3D Creature and Character Modeling

This course introduces students to form through digital sculpting. These techniques are used by 3D modelers in the animation, visual effects, video game, and toy industries. Students will explore the process of digitally sculpting a 3D character.

General Psychology

You’ll take a practical and theoretical look at the science of psychology, including human development, perception, physiological psychology, psychopathology, learning, and personality.

Alternative Processes

Expand your individual artistry in the photographic medium. You will use various historical and contemporary photographic techniques and printing processes, including alternative capture, image transfer, encaustic application, Cyanotype, and Van Dyke Brown. (This course is cross-listed with PH 621.)

Portfolio Development

Get approval to work alone or collaborate with a group on a proposed project that caters to your needs and interests. (This course is cross-listed with IND 745.)