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Digital Painting for Visual Development

Intensive digital painting tailored to the visual development design process. You’ll utilize Photoshop and 3D software to create a suite of thematically related pieces demonstrating consistent lighting and effective value, color, depth, and focal point(s).

Looking at Art and Design

Explore the fundamental building blocks of art and design through the study of painting, sculpture, graphic art, architecture, and other media to gain a historical and cultural appreciation of two- and three-dimensional art.

Creature Design for Visual Development

Design industry-quality creatures for your portfolio. You’ll learn to visualize and capture your visions through thumbnails, color/value studies, and finished illustrations to design four creatures.

Visual Development Styles

Apply style to animation visual development. You’ll learn to apply graphic, European, and Eastern styling techniques to character design, prop design, environment design, composition, value, and color.

Elements of Digital Painting

Gain the skills to digitally paint individual elements like skin, hair, facial features, wood, metal, stone, environments, and more.

Writing for Picture Books

Can picture books reflect the momentous moments in a child’s life? You’ll explore universal themes of family, friendship, sibling rivalry, and independence to develop picture book characters and stories that speak to children’s interests and validate their emotions. (This course is cross-listed with LA 318.)

Senior Portfolio for Visual Development

Develop a professionally marketable portfolio with your best work. You’ll build client and artist relationships by practicing the art of presentation and behavioral skills to create a consistent professional identity and portfolio.

Corsetry and Underpinnings

Create corsetry as both outer garment and underpinning. You will cut and construct different styles and shapes of corsets to use with draped design ideas, producing finished pieces.

Introduction to Digital Sculpting

Learn the concepts and methods used to produce digital sculptures. You will learn to create organic and hard-surface objects in a digital sculpting application, explore 3D painting, and practice concept ideation. (This course is cross-listed with GAM 623.)

Color Fundamentals

Explore color as a powerful tool in digital media. Learn how color psychology, contrast, light temperature, composition, and harmony enhance imagery, while applying various color schemes to create visually compelling artwork.