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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.)

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.

Photography as a Visual Language

Photography as a Visual Language introduces the foundational concepts, history, and practices that shape photographic seeing. Through a survey of light, composition, and the conceptual dimensions of the photographic medium, you will develop the visual literacy to read photographs critically and the artistic vocabulary to make work that communicates intentionally.

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.)

Magazine Print and Digital Media Publishing

Learn the art of self-publication. You will conceptualize, design, produce, and publish a digital and print magazine. (This course is cross-listed with FSH 626.)

Code Analysis and Construction Documents

Buildings must be designed to keep people safe. You will develop building floor plans that comply with planning and building codes with an emphasis on egress and accessibility and evaluate a building envelope design proposal on costs, material choices, and construction assembly.