Program Category: Animation

September 26, 2025
September 13, 2025
This course requires that students have proficiency in prior 2D or 3D tools. Students will use their animation skills to…
September 13, 2025
This course will prepare students in the Experimental animation track for their final sequence of Experimental Thesis Film 1 &…
September 13, 2025
This advanced course draws on the practical knowledge developed in EX282 and EX284 focusing on art direction as applied to…
September 13, 2025
This advanced course builds on previous knowledge and skills as students conceive, plan, design and produce their own series of…
September 13, 2025
This advanced class will require students to conceive, develop, present and pitch a concept for an original episodic animated series.…
September 13, 2025
This course focuses on stop motion techniques outside the normal realm of character rigs and clay armature-based techniques. Experimental approaches…
September 13, 2025
In this course students will learn the fundamentals of landscape painting in addition to concepts and skills that are commonly…
September 13, 2025
This intermediate level course builds on the FD 155 Fundamentals of Story as students learn to brainstorm, storyboard and pitch…
September 13, 2025
This course covers concepts in character design suitable for digital limited-animation and stop-motion production environments. Students will create character designs…
September 13, 2025
This course utilizes tablet-monitor technology to create a full-animation 2D pipeline that bypasses traditional paper in favor of digital drawing.…
September 13, 2025
This intermediate level course builds off Fundamentals of Maya and CG Modeling, focusing on CG-based 3D character animation. Based in…
September 13, 2025
This course offers an introduction to the conceptual process of environment design for video games. Environment concept artists for the…
September 13, 2025
This course is designed to empower graphic designers with the knowledge and skills needed to create compelling visual content for…
September 13, 2025
This is an introductory-level course designed for students to develop or enhance their 3D modeling skills. Instruction will focus…
September 13, 2025
This course investigates the history, practice, and visual language of collage. Utilizing varied sources to gather images and found objects,…
September 13, 2025
Experimental Animation's "Fabrication" class offers students a comprehensive learning experience that encompasses essential skills in Real-World mold making, casting, character…
September 13, 2025
This introductory course provides students from all majors with the essential skills and workflows of digital sculpting. Using ZBrush students…
September 13, 2025
The Art of Costume is a cross-disciplinary studio course that explores character silhouette, costume, and the draped figure. The content…
September 13, 2025
This is an introductory-level course designed for students to develop or enhance their 3D modeling skills. Instruction will focus…
September 13, 2025
This course investigates facial structure, proportions of the face and describing likeness, describing the figure using light and shadow, foundations…
September 13, 2025
This course offers an intense investigation and deep dive into character design principles. Students will design unique and imaginative characters…
September 13, 2025
The most advanced of the animation courses, this class builds on complex concepts of full animation technique. Students will also…
September 13, 2025
Thesis 1 begins animation production of the students' animation films developed in Directing for Animators, concentrating on creating and completing…
September 13, 2025
Thesis 2 continues the animation production process begun in Thesis 1, with students completing the remaining 50% of their film…
September 13, 2025
This course is taken in the last senior semester and teaches the techniques necessary to bring a film to final…
September 13, 2025
This course concentrates on preparing students to enter team-based creative environments with emphasis on digital portfolio and reel development, communication…
September 13, 2025
Background Painting teaches students to take their drawn environments and background layouts to full color. The course emphasizes the skills…
September 13, 2025
This advanced course is designed to push the student's ability to give vision to a concept and to visually convey…
September 13, 2025
This is a figure drawing course for animators that focuses on gesture and capturing essentials of movement, dynamic expression, and…
September 13, 2025
This course introduces students to digital approaches to feature-quality animation techniques, focusing primarily on industry-standard software: Toon Boom Harmony, TV…
September 13, 2025
The purpose of this course is to finalize a short film idea that will be executed in the senior year.…
September 13, 2025
This course is designed to teach students advanced CG animation techniques by applying traditional character animation principles to CG animation.…
September 13, 2025
This intermediate course builds on foundational animation principles, with an emphasis on developing more complex animation skills. Students will refine…
September 13, 2025
In this course students will learn the role of layout in the filmmaking process, with an emphasis on feature films.…
September 13, 2025
This course emphasizes 3-dimensional form analysis: proportion, scale, foreshortening, and weight. Using an economy of line and value, students will…
September 13, 2025
This introductory CG animation course focuses on the tools of industry-leading Autodesk Maya specifically for creating high-performance animation. Students build…
September 13, 2025
This class focuses on representing the construction of a 3D object in a 2D image. The class will cover the…
September 13, 2025
This course expands on the fundamentals, applying the basic concepts to further develop skills in locomotion and acting for animation.…
September 13, 2025
This course offers an intense investigation of character design. The objective of this course is to design model sheets of…
September 13, 2025
This is a figure drawing course for animators that focuses on gesture and how to capture the essentials of movement,…
September 13, 2025
This course covers how to effectively portray the essence of a story by means of quick and accurate sketches. Students…
September 13, 2025
This course is an introduction to drawing the human form that explores observational and imaginative drawing techniques using graphite and…
September 13, 2025
This course is an exploration in story structure and the incorporation of classic storytelling techniques/archetypes in the medium of film.
September 13, 2025
This introductory course covers the principles of classical, full animation technique on paper, dimensional constructive drawing techniques as well as…
September 13, 2025
This course introduces the students to the complex interface of Maya, one of the leading software programs in animation and…
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