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Programming for Games 3

Make a simple 2D game. You’ll learn to solve specific game programming challenges using 2D graphics, capturing player input, basic audio programming, simple physics and collision, and more.

Branding Principles

A brand is the gut feeling you have about a company, product, or service. Most brands are defined by their visual properties, which makes this valuable business asset heavily dependent upon designers. You’ll explore the principles of branding and identity design by creating brand expressions for new products, services, environments,… Read More

Art Direction

Take your visual concepts to another level. Learn layout and typographic techniques the pros use to communicate clearly, powerfully, and with real sophistication. (This course is cross-listed with ADV 602.)

Abstract Painting

You’ll explore modern art from its inception to today, discovering how form and color are distorted to elicit an emotional response and applying this to your own painting interpretations. (This course is cross-listed with FA 608.)

Writing the Short Story

Become a creative storyteller. You’ll apply the elements of the narrative genre to write a short story with dialogue, character development, plot, and setting.

Clothed Figure Drawing 2

Use value to draw the clothed figure. You’ll learn to see and use shapes in value to create patterns and develop a sense of staging, with a focus on structure, drapery, and the ways light reveals form.

Watercolor

A technical, historical, and practical survey of watercolors will inform your painting choices. You’ll gain skills specific to watercolors, including transparent application, value underpainting techniques, flat wash, dry brush, and wet-on-wet techniques. (This course is cross-listed with FA 665.)

Western Civilization

Explore Western civilization from ancient civilizations to the Renaissance, focusing on ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Islamic religion and societies.

Advanced Digital Painting

Preproduction art, print illustration, and web imagery work require digital painting skills. You’ll create digital paintings that include the illusion of three-dimensional form and depth in digital environments.

Advanced Photo Imagery

Strong compositing skills open unlimited artistic and commercial possibilities. Using Adobe Photoshop, you’ll learn concepts and techniques for capturing ideal source photos and combining them to make a unique final image.