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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.

2D Level Design and Mechanics

2D level design covers genres from platformers to dungeon crawlers. In this class you will learn how to create fun and functional 2D level designs and gameplay mechanics through multiple projects.

Midpoint Portfolio

Your portfolio is everything. You’ll take the first step into creating and presenting your own portfolio website and personal branding system. You’ll revisit, redo, update, revise, and add to past work to create a portfolio that reflects the skills you’ve gained. (This course is cross-listed with ADV 341.)

Typography 2: Formalizing Structure

Transform text into visually engaging communications for both print and screen experiences. Building on Typography 1, you’ll focus on building more complicated typographic compositions through an understanding of page and paragraph aesthetics, legibility across various media, typographic expression, and integration of visual imagery.

Fantasy Illustration

Creatively bring your individual style and imagination to life in the fantasy genre. Combining reference and invented elements, you’ll learn to design and depict believable characters, creatures, environments, and apparatus while producing five portfolio-quality images.

Programming

Study what you want! For your thesis project, you will research the needs of a community in a building site or a specialty area to create a programming booklet and presentation of your findings. You must first pass your midpoint review.

Content Creation: Making the Documentary

Become a documentary filmmaker. In this course you will explore the roots and trajectory of this ever-expanding form of filmmaking. You will watch numerous award-winning documentaries to examine how the genre pushes boundaries to tell real stories. You will conceptualize, shoot and edit your own documentary projects. (This course is… Read More

Rapid Ideation Creation Sketching for Concept Art

We call it a boot camp, but there’s nothing basic about our training. As a prospective concept artist, you’ll gain the skills required to create thumbnails, ideations, and concept drawings with speed and accuracy. You’ll produce volumes of sketches along the journey.

The Art and Ideology of the 20th Century

What is art? Or modernism? You’ll take a deep dive into the 20th century, exploring the artists, philosophers, cultural phenomena, stylistic movements, and world of ideas that shaped the century.

History of Visual Development

Increase your knowledge of visual design across multiple platforms and disciplines. You’ll be exposed to the visual language of live-action and animated film, television, and gaming.