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3ds max
Course outline:
· Basic Concepts and Navigation of User Interface
· 3DS Max Workflow
· Naming Conventions
· Working with Objects
· Basic Modeling
· Materials and Maps
· Basic Animation
· Working with Trackview
· Building Compound Objects
· Creating and Controlling Particle Systems
· Creating Atmospheric Effects
· Rendering and Post Production
· Modeling Using Reference Images
· Advanced Production Tutorials
· Maxscript


AutoCAD 2007
In this course you will learn to:
* Create dimensioned drawings accurately.
* Set your drawings up so that they can be plotted.
* Build a library of symbols that can be reused.
* Develop template files with standard settings.
* Coordinate reference drawings.


Business Marketing Design
Students who complete the program can expect to learn to:

  • Prepare bitmap images for print or digital media using basic Photoshop
    retouching and correction techniques, collage, and compositing.
  • Create vector art illustrations using shape drawing and freehand drawing tools,
    type tools, and transformation and distortion effects.
  • Develop Powerpoint presentations using professional, consistent slide design
    and typography, working from slide and title master pages.
  • Gain a basic understanding of creative and career options in the marketing
    design field (optional elective).
  • Develop effective color schemes for different client projects using the principles
    of color harmony.
  • Use typography effectively by following the basic principles of typography
    design, selection, and layout.
  • Develop a logo design through the each stage of a professional logo design
    process: research, design, and presentation.
  • Create two-dimensional layouts that embody the principles of effective
    composition, such as unity, balance, rhythm, and proportion.
  • Develop print advertising campaign for various clients in different media,
    applying principles for effective ad design.
  • Research and design logos for three different companies, exploring differences
    in concept development.


Digital Arts Certificate
Students who complete the program can expect to learn to:

  • Prepare bitmap images for print or digital media using basic Photoshop
    retouching and correction techniques, collage, and compositing.
  • Develop a basic proficiency in techniques for different kind of digital photoshoot,
    including still life, portraits, product photography, architecture, and action
    photography.
  • Create vector art illustrations using shape drawing and freehand drawing tools,
    type tools, and transformation and distortion effects.
  • Gain a basic understanding of creative and career options in the digital arts field
    (optional elective).
  • Develop effective color schemes for different projects using the principles of
    color harmony.
  • Create two-dimensional layouts that embody the principles of effective
    composition, such as unity, balance, rhythm, and proportion.
  • Represent form by drawing contours, positive/negative space, and 3-
    dimensional shapes.
  • Create vector-based illustrations from basic shapes, symbols, gradients, fill
    colors, symbols.
  • Identify and discuss important movements in the history of art and their impact
    on art styles, themes, and techniques.
  • Utilize advanced Photoshop tools such as transparency, brushes, and the Pen
    Tool to create illustrations, collages, and photorealistic art.


Fine Arts Training
Upon successful completion of this program, students will:

  • Develop an understanding of the materials and techniques used in drawings,
    paintings, prints, and sculptures.
  • Identify and discuss key turning points in the history of art and their impact on
    styles and techniques.
  • Knowledgably analyze and discuss art with different historical periods and art
    movements including Classical Greece and Rome, Renaissance, Baroque,
    Romanticism, Impressionism, and early 20th century styles.
  • Build a foundation in drawing skills by creating and submitting for feedback
    more than twenty still life drawings.
  • Set up a drawing studio for still life work and handle drawing materials
    appropriately (pencil, drawing board), developing a good basic drawing
    technique.
  • Identify and represent in drawing the basic elements of form (line, plane, mass)
    and the fundamental geometrical shapes of subjects.
  • Build a foundation in life drawing skills by creating and submitting for feedback
    more than twenty figure drawings.
  • See and apply in your drawing the standard measurements and proportions of
    the human figure.
  • See and apply in your figure drawing the characteristic shapes and proportions
    of the human skeleton.
  • Learn a step by step method for oil painting that will provide a foundation for all
    your future work.
  • Use basic drawing skills as effective preparation for oil painting compositions.
  • Create preparatory pencil sketches demonstrating perspective, shading, and
    contour.


Graphic Design Certificate
By completing the Graphic Design program the student will:

   ·  Learn the basics of Successful Design.
   ·  Learn the "language" of visual design.
   ·  Learn to apply basic design concepts to Commercial Design.
   ·  Learn to creatively solve design problems.
   ·  Learn to manage design projects.
   ·  Learn to structure an ad campaign from a Graphic Designer's perspective.

Interior Design
Upon successful completion of the Interior Design program, students will be able to:

  • Apply diverse ideas, approaches, imaginative concepts, and rationalization to
    interior design projects.
  • Understand a design vocabulary of visual terms.
  • Understand the concepts of visual perception.
  • Understand the basic elements and principles of design theory.
  • Understand color symbolism, perception and psychology: the effects of light on
    color and space relative to creating color harmony, and its link to the interior
    environment.
  • Identify the characteristics of various color systems and interior color schemes,
    and their practical applications.
  • Research, analysis, evaluation, and programming skills.
  • Develop design programs and concepts that solve spatial problems.
  • Apply basic interior programming requirements.
  • Evaluate space as it impacts orientation, circulation, interior zoning, and fixture
    and furniture arrangement
  • Apply spatial organization, within project guidelines.
  • Work within architectural and functional requirements.
  • Present interior projects using verbal and graphic communication skills.
  • Evaluate the interior of living and work spaces as it impacts orientation,
    circulation, interior zoning, and furniture arrangement.
  • Apply the principles of design as they relate to retail, residential, and workplace
    interior planning.
  • Understand human factors affecting retail, residential, and workplace design.
  • Prepare and present creative design solutions.


Multimedia Design Certificate
By successfully completing this program, students will understand how to:

* Implement the many facets of multimedia both online and off.
* Be proficient in Adobe Photoshop.
* Develop a competence in basic drawing and animating tools in Flash.
* Create websites with strong functionality, interactivity, and usability.
* Draw and animate compelling characters and interactive environments in Flash.
* Explore hands-on introduction to editing digital video using Final Cut Pro.
* Learn how to create motion graphics using Adobe After Effects.
* Be able to integrate different media to create interfaces and experiences.

Video Game Art
The Game Art program gives you a head start in your game art or design career by
providing you with insight into every aspect of how today's video games are created.
You'll learn about the business model, the technology platform, the production
process, and the genres that define the medium, developing an understanding of the
people and processes that drive development.

A major goal of the course is to help you understand the different roles in game art
and design departments. You'll explore the inner workings of the game development
team, finding out how art, programming, audio, design, and QA work together to
create a killing product.

To prepare you for a professional game development environment, papers, tests, and
projects will challenge you to develop the analytical and written skills you'll need for
communicating with other game industry pros. You will focus on helping you define
your influences, interests, and ambitions as a game artist or designer while learning
how to analyze and criticize video games, identify key elements in a game, and make
intelligent judgments about whether the game succeeded or failed.

This course uses Autodesk Maya, which combines powerful tools for the major areas
in 3D content creation: modeling, animation, texturing, lighting, and rendering. Game
Art will also focus exclusively on developing tiling textures for 3D environments – how
to gather reference photos and turn source imagery into texture tiles and texture sets.

Get ready to study important issues that every aspiring developer should understand,
such as what business factors led to the rise and fall of the first consoles, and how
Nintendo's approach to licensing set the stage for today's system of third party
software development. This instructor-led, project-based program is completed at
your own pace. Expert Faculty members provide critique and feedback on projects
within 1-2 business days, helping you build a design portfolio for prospective
employers.


Video Game Design and Development
The objectives of the Video Game Design and Development online program are:

  • To provide students with the core programming language skills
  • To provide students with a sufficient level of proficiency in the areas
  • To provide students with a thorough understanding of the main concepts
    involved in real-time 3D graphics programming.


Web Database Developer
The purpose of this program is to:

  • Learn to use HTML, Cascading Style Sheets, and JavaScript to design web
    pages.
  • Learn Dynamic HTML to make your web pages more interactive.
  • Learn to use Dreamweaver to for more efficient web design and development.
  • Learn Flash and ActionScript to create dynamic interactive user interfaces.
  • Learn ColdFusion, Perl, and/or PHP to database-driven web applications.
  • Learn SQL to pull data from a database and to insert and modify data in a
    database.
  • Learn to use XML to store and validate data and to make data more accessible
    to other applications.


Webmaster
This Webmaster Class is an interactive program designed to:

  1. Take a student that is moderately proficient in computer basics and train them
    to take charge of a company's web presence.
  2. Prepare a student to:
    1. Plan a website.
    2. Design a website.
    3. Implement a website.
    4. Maintain a website.

At the successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

  • Understand and appreciate the World Wide Web as it relates to both personal
    and business use.
  • Be able to use solid design techniques and audience analysis to construct a
    webpage that fits a target purpose and audience.
  • Be able to formally design, compose, and structure the information to appear on
    a website.
  • Be able to use HTML and DHTML to construct web pages with text, lists, links,
    tables, graphics, frames, forms, and other features of a dynamic webpage.
  • Be able to evaluate the costs and benefits of doing business on the World Wide
    Web.

Website Design
Course Objectives        
  • Perform critiques of existing Web sites based on design principles, functionality,
    and audience needs, and suggest improvements.       
  • Use Photoshop to select, enhance, distort, color, scale and manipulate scanned
    images and artwork — or create them from scratch.       
  • Use Dreamweaver design sophisticated sites, creating advanced layouts by
    using tables, colors, style.       
  • Learn HTML tags, hancode pages, use templates and troubleshoot the HTML in
    major web design applications like Dreamweaver.       
  • Learn color principles, terminology, and applications, with an emphasis on
    manipulating color.       
  • Explore the anatomy of the fonts through interactive lectures and hands-on
    exercises, classify typefaces and use them creatively.      
  • Develop page compositional skills a series of artistic workouts applying the
    principles of effective composition.       
  • Learn to clearly organize a consistent and functional website from both a user
    and business perspective.       
  • Learn to plan, design, test, and promote websites.       
  • Improve graphic design skills and learn navigation design, and page layout.       
  • Develop a proficiency in Web foundations including HTML, XHTML, CSS, and
    JavaScript.       
  • Learn website project planning, layout, usability, learning different design
    styles, adding popup windows, forms, and CSS.