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Editing Music for Entertainment Media

Strong editing skills are the best entry into sound and music work in entertainment media. Learn to edit music for long and short form media with music stems, synchronize music to picture, master cross-fades and tempo mapping, and learn how to interpret the feeling of a scene and enhance its… Read More

Dice, Rulesets, and Theory

Effective game design is about creativity, communication, and determining fun through the creation and balance of systematic rules. In this class, you will learn fundamental, practical principles of game design through the creation of tabletop games and role-playing.

Creative Futures: Portfolio and Professional Identity

Artist-entrepreneurs wanted. To increase your hire-ability, you’ll develop a personal brand strategy that includes a resume, demo reel, website, social media plan, a unique logo, and a professional business name. You will also be interviewed by professional hiring managers.

2D Digital Cutout

Gain various ink, paint, and compositing skills to work in digital commercial animation production. You’ll learn storyboarding, animatics, painting, compositing, and post-production. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 648 and ANM 848.)

You Media: Short Form Production 1

Short, snackable video content is on the rise. You’ll use your audio/video storytelling skills in a collaborative setting to produce, direct, shoot, and edit short form videos for a variety of media platforms.

Fashion Business: Trend Analysis

Learn tips for anticipating trends. You will study the evolutionary nature and cultural context affecting products and learn to collect, analyze, and synthesize data to predict and understand fashion trends.

Fabric and Fiber Technology

Know your textiles. Through hands-on analysis of fabric swatches, you’ll identify the properties of textiles and how they relate to performance and end use.

Designing Careers: Employment Communication & Planning

Pursue the job you want! Hone your communication skills through collaboration, self-promotion, and other professional interactions. You will collaborate across disciplines to write a persuasive project proposal and conduct industry research for seeking out entrepreneurial and employee-based career opportunities.

Organic Modeling 2

Model organic characters like professional visual effect studio modelers. This course further develops comprehensive instruction in Zbrush software for high resolution organic modeling. Course concepts include model retopology, character concept design, polypainting and texturing, transform and decimation tools, and rendering model turntables. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 656.)

Drawing the Fantastic Figure

Increase your figure drawing skills. Focusing on anatomy, exaggeration, and the human form, you’ll create a set of portfolio-quality pieces that bring your imagination to life. Merge live models, photo references, and classical and modern approaches to enhance your character development.