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3.00 Credits
3 credits 3 hours Prerequisites: DD 101 Introduction to the Digital Toolbox; DD 102 Media design in the Digital Age; DD 113 Introduction to Motion Graphics. This class is designed to build a strong foundation in all aspects of digital video production and editing. Students will learn everything from basic editing skills to creating transitions and motion effects, realtime color correcting, titling techniques, editing multi-camera projects, and outputting video for a wide array of mediums. Projects will helps students to develop their strengths, explore new forms if visual expression and experience the thrill of creating their own professional quality video projects.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Hours Prerequisites: DD 101 Introduction to the Digital Toolbox; DD 102 Media design in the Digital Age; DD 103 Digital Photography. This course helps students to refine their technical skills for using digital cameras and digital imaging software, and to further develop students' individual style in photography through experience in creating, looking at and talking about photography. In addition the class will consider the photograph from a designer's perspective. Throughout the semester, students are expected to photograph consistently, present assignments and projects in class, and develop their understanding and confidence in using digital tools and media. Class time will consist of lecture, demonstrations, discussions of student work, and lab time. Students will have the opportunity to show their work for the critique throughout the semester. There will also be a midterm and final technical exam. Each exam consists of exercises to ensure the understanding of camera functions and digital imaging skills. Students are expected to take advantage of their access to the digital's lab open hours.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Hours Prerequisites: DD 101 Introduction to the Digital Toolbox This course provides students with a foundational understanding of typography, its history, principles, considerations, and techniques. Bridging the gap between visual design and language, typography is one of the most important elements of graphic and digital design. It is often used yet seldom understood, and so this course strives to help the design student understand the effect of well used typography in addition to and poorly used typography. The course will explore the power of communication that the letter form holds, and the rules that guide a typographer's hand. Through a series of reading and exercises, students will gain insight into the world of typography and begin designing letter forms of their own.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Hours Prerequisites: VPA 121 Painting and Drawing I; DD 101 Introduction to the Digital Toolbox; DD 105 2D Design. This course introduces students to threedimensional design through a series of informative readings, enlightening gallery/museums visits, and by means of design projects exploring the issues and techniques discovered. Particular attention will be paid to the importance of forms and objects in space and time, how threedimensional constructs inform, and how they dialogue with the world around them.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Hours Prerequisites: DD101 Introduction to the Digital Toolbox; DD102 Media design in the Digital Age; DD107 Concepts in Animation; DD205 3D Design This class introduces students to the powerful 3D animating program Maya with a series of exercises and projects created to develop a strong foundation with the program. Students will develop necessary modeling, rigging, and animating skills, as well as solid understanding of the program' s complex interface. Along the way students will be exposed to stronger project development experience as well as more complex issues dealing with 3D design.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Hours Prerequisites: DD101 Introduction to the Digital Toolbox; DD108 Introduction to Sound Design; DD113 Introduction to Motion Graphics This course exposes students to more hands on experience with sound design and digital audio technologies by means of a number of projects meant to enhance their contextual understanding of production methodologies. The course focuses on dealing with concepts and procedures related to designing sound for animation, film, and multimedia applications. It will provide students with greater experience using digital recorder tools including microphones, dynamic processors and effects units, as well as techniques for recording and editing with various popular audio outboard gear and computer software packages, mixing, editing, etc.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Hours Prerequisites: DD101 Introduction to the Digital Toolbox; DD102 Media design in the Digital Age; DD112 Introduction to Web Design (suggested); DD 114 Digital Illustration. This course takes illustration students on in-depth explorations of illustration process, technique and implementation in the digital environment. It will introduce students to a number of modern illustrators, their work, and their techniques by means of readings, gallery visits, and tutorial exercises.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Hours Prerequisites: DD101 Introduction to the Digital Toolbox; DD102 Media design in the Digital Age; DD105 2D Design; DD106 Introduction to Usable Design; DD112 Introduction to Web Design; DD113 Introduction to Motion Graphics (advised); DD201 Communication Design. This course starts off where Introduction to Web Design (DD112) let off enhancing students' understanding of web design principles and programming techniques for developing exciting Web content. The course explores more conceptual issues such as whether authoritative online content can be recognized, issues of anonymity and socialization in online culture, and the inherent ramifications of universally accessible information on larger social networks such as nations and states. Students will be asked to explore on-line communities, develop web personas, and create creative and experimental content to enhance and augment this personality.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Hours Pre-requisites: DD 101 Introduction to the Digital Toolbox; DD 102 Media Design in the Digital Age; DD 113 Introduction to Motion Graphics This course is an introductory After Effects class designed to develop fluency in visual expression within time based digital environments. Students will gain a solid foundation in motion graphic and effect techniques that will enhance their creative expressions. Complementary relationships between commercial and fine arts work will also be explored.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Hours Prerequisites: DD101 Introduction to the Digital Toolbox; DD102 Media design in the Digital Age; DD107 Concepts in Animation; DD113 Introduction to Motion Graphics; DD205 3D Design; DD207 Introduction to Maya. In this class students will explore the animation program Maya to a far deeper extent than previously experienced in its prerequisite class Introduction to Maya. Students will explore rigging, animating and rendering their own animations short, as well as developing techniques in lighting, skinning, texturing and painting their creations.
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