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Writing the Feature Film 1 (Spring)

Complete the work on your original screenplay that you began in Writing the Feature Film 1 (Fall). (This course is cross-listed with MPT 872.)

Advanced Studio Lighting

Students will build on the skills acquired in Lighting 1, focusing on advanced lighting and photographing actors on sound stages with discussions of real world situations. Homework assignments will be shot on digital cameras that students must provide. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 715.)

Movie Trailer Production

Learn professional trailer, teaser, and promo editing and practice editing techniques that relate to this unique form of storytelling. This course will guide you in the process of pitching, writing, pre-vis, music cutting, titles, and VFX needed to cut promos for documentary, narrative, serials, and more. (This course is cross-listed… Read More

Multiplatform Specialty Writing

Master short-form writing for all media. You’ll learn to gather and synthesize original interviews with information from personal contacts, email, social networks, and published material to write stories for audio, video, and the web.

Animal Anatomy

Take a walk on the wild side. Using digital media and traditional drawing techniques, you’ll study the fur, skin, textures, skeletons, muscles, movements, rhythms, expressions, and basic structures of animals, comparing animal forms to our own. Note: homework requires digital skills.

Scripting for VFX and Riggers

Interested in a career in technical direction? Combining your artistic talents with your technical abilities, you’ll use Python language to build a solid foundation of programming skills, which can be applied in many DCCs including Maya, Nuke, and Houdini. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 655.)

Artificial Intelligence

AI brings non-player character behavior to life in a simulated world. Building AI for a variety of game types, you’ll create a simulation game incorporating AI layering, behavior trees, planning, and communication that allows multiple AI agents to conspire against the player.

Dynamics 2: Fluids

Create visually appealing fluid simulations with Houdini software as seen from top visual effects production studios. You will learn how to simulate, light, shade, and render beautiful fluid visual effects using Houdini. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 744.)

Professional Practices for Visual Development

Learn the most common business practices shared by the animation, game, and film industries. You’ll create a personal career plan focusing on communication, collaboration, crowdfunding, networking, marketing, and workplace pipelines.

Landscape Architectural Construction Documents

Learn what it takes to put together an accurate set of construction documents. You’ll create plans, details, schedules and specifications to communicate your design intent and provide the detailed information required to permit, build and install a project. Strategies for sustainable construction and installation will be emphasized. (This course is… Read More