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Fundamentals of Environments and Prop Design

Explore the foundations of environment. You’ll develop cinematic composition and aspect ratios, atmospheric perspective, and architectural design skills to complete environment and prop designs.

Professional Practices for Visual Development

Learn the most common business practices shared by the animation, game, and film industries. You’ll create a personal career plan focusing on communication, collaboration, crowdfunding, networking, marketing, and workplace pipelines.

Directed Study

Refine your skills. As a Master of Fine Arts degree candidate, you’ll complete course assignments to develop the conceptual, design, and technical skills needed to successfully complete your MFA Thesis Project and/or portfolio. You must have passed your midpoint review. Director approval required. Fees and prerequisites will vary by topic.

History of Visual Development

Increase your knowledge of visual design across multiple platforms and disciplines. You’ll be exposed to the visual language of live-action and animated film, television, and gaming.

Digital Character Design

Introduction to character design techniques utilized within the animation and games industry. Students will explore concepts such as quick drawing, line-of-action, volume, and caricature that will be utilized to complete original characters, model sheets, and turnarounds.

Group Directed Study: Visual Development for Thesis Project

Develop paintings depicting the characters, setting, and mood of your own story. Your strong drawing and painting skills, vivid imagination, and visual problem solving skills will be useful.

History of Visual Development

To create the future of the profession, you must understand the past. You’ll explore the impact specific designers and artists have had, and see how production techniques, costs, financing, and marketing have evolved over time.

Visual Development Production

Promote your skills with portfolio-quality work and a personal website. You’ll experience the full production pipeline for animation, documentary, and live action by working on a short film or game that tells a compelling story.

Designing Characters like the Pros

Jump into Visual Development with Design for Movies! Create your own characters and sets for animation or live-action, and bring your unique style to life in a fast-paced, creative adventure.

Color Scripting

You’ll use cinematic composition, atmospheric use of color, and color continuity to complete a sixteen-frame color script. (This course is cross-listed with ANM 680 and ANM 880.)