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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).

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.

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.

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.

Character Design 1: Bringing Characters to Life

Explore quick drawing, line-of-action, volume, and caricature skills will help as you design original characters, make model sheets and turnarounds.

Visual Development 2

You’ll use your vivid imagination and strong drawing and painting skills to help you create characters and environments that set the mood of a story.