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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

UI for Visual Development

In this course students will study the principles of User Interface Design and learn how to apply them for vital aspects of UI/UX design. Emphasis will be placed on Graphic Design and leveraging UI for maximum appeal.