Courses

Learn animation basics like compositing, motion graphics, rendering, and puppeting with a focus on digital workflows.

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January 16, 2025 to May 8, 2025, ONL

Master the fundamentals of character animation, including timing, weight, physics, and body mechanics.

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January 14, 2025 to May 8, 2025, W*008

Discover visual storytelling through hands-on projects covering cameras, editing, sound, and lighting. Create short films in fiction, non-fiction, and experimental formats.

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January 14, 2025 to May 8, 2025, W*009

Explore 2D design and color theory through hands-on projects.

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January 14, 2025 to May 8, 2025, W*205
January 14, 2025 to May 8, 2025, ONL

Combine 2D and 3D design skills to create projects that explore aesthetics, meaning, and craft.

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January 13, 2025 to May 7, 2025, C*108 and W*004

Learn 3D design essentials through hands-on projects and critiques.

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January 13, 2025 to May 5, 2025, C*108

Through the introduction of the core principles of time-based media, basic code, prototyping and user experience, this studio implores students to explore the concepts of time and interactivity and its impact on the design and experience of their work. Students research, develop, design and prototype multiple projects, selecting one to produce and present as a fully realized piece.

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January 15, 2025 to May 12, 2025, C*108 and W*013

Examine color interaction and its role in design across various media and printing processes.

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January 13, 2025 to May 7, 2025, W*207

Learn to create digital imagery using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, essential for modern design.

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January 13, 2025 to May 6, 2025, ONL

Focus on quick concept development through perspective, value, and line variance.

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January 16, 2025 to May 8, 2025, ONL

Expand your drawing vocabulary with experimental techniques and large-scale projects.Prerequisite: Drawing I: Materials and Methods

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January 13, 2025 to May 8, 2025
January 14, 2025 to May 8, 2025, W*215

Students expand their understanding of the fundamentals of drawing and sketching, and develop theirown personal sense of style and enhanced skill. A variety of drawing techniques are explored with afocus on creative composition, design and visual narrative. Additionally, the human figure will beexplored as a basis of understanding gesture, proportion, geometric forms in space and the definitionof complex surfaces.

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January 13, 2025 to May 7, 2025, W*213
January 13, 2025 to May 7, 2025, W*215
January 14, 2025 to May 8, 2025
January 14, 2025 to May 8, 2025, W*213
January 14, 2025 to May 8, 2025, W*213
January 15, 2025 to May 7, 2025, ONL

Build on foundational design skills with a focus on creative thinking.

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January 13, 2025 to April 30, 2025

Using the computer as a tool, students develop an understanding of digital photographic imagingcapabilities and related outsourcing options.

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January 13, 2025 to May 7, 2025

Students will develop a process and skills in using painted value and color to define composition, form, light, and space depicting diverse cultures and perspectives. This is in order to employ the basics of professional illustrative working methods using water and oil-based painting mediums with additional fundamental media.

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January 15, 2025 to May 7, 2025, W*307

This course teaches mechanical and freehand perspective drawing, covering one-, two-, and three-point perspectives, ellipses, tonal values, and atmospheric perspective.

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January 14, 2025 to May 8, 2025, W*206

Survey Western art from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, exploring its cultural and social contexts.

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January 13, 2025 to May 8, 2025, ONL
January 16, 2025 to May 8, 2025, C*304