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Video Gaming: Game Design

This class is all about giving students a big picture of the game development industry with its many roles and skillsets. The course starts with brainstorming a game, keeping one’s mind open to creativity, exploration, and innovation. This brainstorm will be refined into an art style, established game mechanics and… Read More

Fashion Graphics: Visual Research and Design

Explore the history and evolution of graphics in the fashion industry, including their connection to brand identity, art, and culture. Using primarily traditional hands-on techniques, you will engage with a variety of themes and design principles to develop creative ideas and personal style through your work.

Study Abroad

Travel to an inspirational location to practice your craft. You’ll create art that reflects your personal insights about the place. (This course is cross-listed with FA 903.)

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.