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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 368 and ANM 848.)

Preproduction

Refine your thesis topic while learning the roles of pre-production artists. Working one-on-one with the instructor, you’ll prepare to present midpoint reviews including a written thesis, concept drawing, character studies, storyboards, and story reels (animatics).

Advanced Lookdev and Lighting

Lighting can determine both what the audience sees and how they feel. You’ll learn advanced lookdev techniques, such as grooming hair and rendering cloth fibers down to the thread level, as well as advanced lighting techniques and tricks of the trade used by cinematographers to create stunning animated shots. (This… Read More

Final Portfolio Preparation

Prepare for your future career by learning what’s expected of the professional in the animation, visual effects, and game industries. As an MFA candidate, you’ll gain communication, collaboration, networking, marketing, and workplace pipeline skills.

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 321.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

Studio X Story Development

You will learn how to make your ideas come to life using visual development, storyboarding, basic drawing, basic design, basic fundamentals of animation, film grammar, and three-act story structure. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 498XD.)

Cinematics for Animation & VFX

Cinematics is the language and techniques of filmmaking. To learn Cinematics Animation and VFX, you’ll board, shoot, and edit a film, critically analyzing examples of film content and production to understand why choices in filmmaking are made.