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History and Technology of VFX and Computer Animation

The history of special effects is rich with innovation. You’ll examine it all—from in-camera techniques, traditional stop motion, motion control, matte paintings, and miniatures to modern computer-generated visual effects and animation, compositing, and production methodology.

Securing Rights and Agreements for Film

Learn the business side of show business. You’ll write option/purchase, submission, producer, employment, non-disclosure, and negotiating agreements. Plus, you’ll explore right-to-work laws, insurance requirements, financing, intellectual property protection, negotiating fees, profit participation, compensation, and more. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 867.)

Blogging: Content Creation and Promotion

Make your mark in the blogosphere. You will analyze various elements of successful blogging and get practical experience conceptualizing, producing, and marketing your own blog as a creative professional. (This course is cross-listed with LA 218.)

Ceramics: Expressions in Clay

Clay is an expressive medium. Using various sculptural techniques, you’ll gain a variety of painterly and contemporary low fire abilities. (This course is cross-listed with FASCU 624.)

Podcast Production and Promotion

Explore podcasts from start to finish. You’ll write, host, record, and edit an original feature-length podcast to publish on iTunes and promote it using social media. Learn how concept development and various formats and styles affect a podcast. (This course is cross-listed with COM 750 and LA 250.)

Thesis Implementation and Portfolio Development

You’ll enjoy individual instruction, receive directed critiques, and learn to master the written and graphic portions of your final thesis project and portfolio.

Art of the Classical World

Gain insights into the art, architecture, and history of the ancient classical era, Greece and Rome, Mesopotamia and Egypt, through a study of historical context, literary, and philosophical texts of the era. (This course is cross-listed with AHS 327.)

Writing for Production: Shot In A Day

Write and develop material for production. You’ll create and write short films focusing on three-dimensional character development that can be shot on our sound stages as class projects and thesis films. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 498WSD.)

Fashion Construction

In the design workroom setting, you use your garment construction and flat pattern drafting skills to create garments that are pattern cut and made to today’s commercial standards.

Vector, Matrices,and Transformations

Matrix operations are used to perform transformations such as translations, rotations, and scale. Using the mathematics of 3D vectors—including dot and cross product applications—you’ll learn to solve linear systems with matrices.