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Teaching Diverse Audiences

Meet the diverse educational needs of art students by fortifying your curriculum with culture and by developing strategies to identify language needs and adapt your teaching to address them. Course content is supported by fieldwork observations and interviews.

Animal and Creature Animation

You will create animations that mimic real and stylized animal locomotion. Realistic creature rigs and animal reference will be analyzed to understand movement and muscles. You will apply research and physics to block and animate a quadruped. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 327.)

Composition and Painting

Increase the quality, scope, and breadth of your imaginative compositions. Make better paintings through a better understanding of the creative process and a deep dive into composition, value, pattern, tone, staging, mood, and color theories.

Still Life Painting

Develop your paint handling skills in value and color as you explore different organizational and compositional approaches to painting still life arrangements.

Design Communication 1

Create architectural drawings that convey design intent. Draft and model architectural spaces moving fluidly between 2D and 3D to create orthographic and isometric drawings. Learn the fundamentals of architectural drawing conventions and develop an efficient workflow incorporating Rhino and Adobe Suite.

Fashion Business: Marketing Promotion Strategy

Promotional strategies for fashion. You will create an integrated marketing plan including advertising, direct mail, publicity, public relations, personal selling, special events, and social networking.

Design Process and 2D Media

Gain the fundamental skills and knowledge using two-dimensional media needed to begin your architecture studies. You will explore orthographic conventions of plan, section, and elevation, architectural notation, axonometric projection, and two-dimensional media to relate a two-dimensional representation to a three-dimensional space.

Product Development: Construction & Quality

Learn how to set up quality procedures for prototyping, sample-making, preproduction sampling, and final production. You will evaluate quality and control during the production process.

2D Production and Layout 1

You’ll practice digital animation scene layout and production for studio, independent, and freelance workflows.

Directing Actors for Motion Pictures

In this hands-on directing class you will learn how to direct actors in a movie or TV show. You will gain the techniques and communication skills needed to work with the actors on set. While mastering the process of communicating your vision of the story to your actors.