Education 2020

This introductory design course teaches the fundamental concepts of 3D modeling and allows students to explore the basic concepts and skills of 3D animation. In this course, students will work with Blender® to create projects such as an image of a monkey wearing a hat, a landscape terrain, an animation of a creature walking, and many more.

This design course builds on the foundational skills taught in Part I. By working on animations such as a bouncing ball with realistic movement, lighting animation that changes color and brightness, a robot arm that lifts and drops balls and a variety of other projects, students will gain an understanding of the skills they will need to succeed as professional animators.
(Prerequisite: 3D Art I: Modeling)

As students learn and work with Inkscape, they will gain a solid foundation of the basic elements of visual art: line, shape, form, color, value, space, and texture. They will learn about processes for evaluating artwork, selected artists’ works, styles and historical periods, methods of working with color, and many other topics that will help them express themselves in original digital drawings and artwork.

In part II of this online class, students will continue to use Inkscape as they learn about the principles and elements of art and design. By the end of this course, each student will have created a unique portfolio of digital artwork, including repeating images to be used as a computer’s desktop background, a logo with text, two images scaled proportionally to one another, and a poster image and layout. 
(Prerequisite: Digital Arts I)

This introductory design class teaches students the basics of composition, color, and layout through a series of hands-on projects that allow them to use their creativity while learning important foundational skills. Using the program GIMP, students will create a graphic design portfolio with a wide variety of projects to include cropping and colorizing images, tracing photos, creating posters using filters, creating comics with talk bubbles and text, and many other projects that will help them develop the skills they need to create and edit images of their own.

In this online class, students will work with the Multimedia Fusion 2® software program to obtain a solid foundation in the fundamentals of game design and development. Each student will create an impressive portfolio of interactive, engaging games such as a classic two-player ping pong game, a block breaking action game, a maze game with moving obstacles, and a variety of others.

Through a series of hands-on Audacity® projects, this introductory audio engineering course teaches students the four main steps of professional recording: recording, editing, mixing, and mastering. Students will learn about Audacity’s workspace and tools, tones and waveforms, recording studios and formats, MIDI and DAW, syncing audio, and many other topics relating to the field of audio engineering.

This introductory course teaches animation essentials through hands-on projects in Adobe® Flash®, a professional grade software program used by animation experts worldwide. In this online class, students will create a diverse portfolio of Flash animations, including an interactive underwater scene, an airplane movie with motion paths, characters with mouths that lip sync to a voice, and more creative animations of their own.