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Social Media Content Development

This course focuses on producing content for cross-platform social media channels utilizing text, video, audio, and visual images. Emphasis will be on developing a unique social media voice and footprint for established apps, such as Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram, and emerging social media channels. (This course is cross-listed with… Read More

Writing the Feature Film 1 (Fall)

Gain the skills to generate feature film ideas, develop characters, craft an outline, and begin your screenplay. (This course is cross-listed with WRI 660.)

Storyboarding for Film Genres

Learn to storyboard for a variety of film genres: comedy, drama, action, and musical. You’ll gain a comprehensive skill set by drawing, staging, and creating story sequences for animation and live action production. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 691.)

Experimental Filmmaking 1

This course focuses on expression ideas and emotions within the constraints of moving images. Students will reassign meaning to found footage and creatively combine sound and image for a visual experience. The evolution of experimental film will be studied in a sociological context. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 805E.)

Advanced Scripting

Technical design is all about problem-solving through a combination of creativity, tools, and logic. In this class, you will use advanced scripting techniques to identify and overcome scripting hurdles in multiple game genres.

20th Century Art

From post-impressionism to post-modernism, you’ll explore the art and ideas that shaped the 20th century, including Expressionism, Fauvism, Art Nouveau, Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop Art, performance art, and graffiti.

3D Character Animation 2 for Animators, Riggers

Animated characters come to life when we can see them thinking. You’ll learn the principles and techniques of acting and subtext in animation as well as dynamic physical action and cycles. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 687.)

Art History Through the 15th Century

Examine the major styles of art and architecture in Western civilization from prehistory to the late Gothic and early Renaissance periods. You’ll practice the language of the arts and examine the purposes of art.

Visualization

Photography as a visual language. You’ll develop the ability to communicate consistent results by taking a systematic, foundational approach composition, light, and camera operations.

3D Texture Painting

Take your painting skills to the next level, learning to hand paint textures and create shaders for richly detailed organic objects and creatures, down to micro details of skin pores and wrinkles. A great class for both modelers and lookdev artists. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 357.)