DGMA - Digital Media and Animation

This is a cumulative two-part course where students will integrate aspects from their studies of the previous three years. Students will use this semester to create one of the following: a 3D animated film; a 2D animated film; an Experimental Animation film (Stop Motion, Mixture of 2D and 3D animation or a fully Interactive/Informative Media project). Students will produce all pre-production work including proposal, storyboards and animatics.

This course will prepare students for the task of finding the next opportunity to advance their professional career be it graduate school, employment in industry, exhibition and/or freelance work. Study will include an overview of the rapidly changing and emerging opportunities for media artists. The students will develop a strategy to promote skills in an ever-changing field. Instruction will be given to develop a professional identity that is conveyed in the design of their portfolio.

This is a cumulative two-part course where students will integrate aspects from their studies of the previous three years. Students will use this semester to create one of the following: a 3D animated film; a 2D animated film; an Experimental Animation film (Stop Motion, Mixture of 2D and 3D animation or a fully Interactive/Informative Media project). Students will produce all pre-production work including proposal, storyboards and animatics.

This seminar will serve two purposes. The first is to enhance students' understanding of opportunities in the field of animation and digital media through presentations, workshops and discussions. The second is to generate new techniques for problem solving in digital media projects. The course will include in-class exercises, discussions and responses to visiting artist presentations.

This is a cumulative two-part course where students will integrate aspects from their studies of the previous three years. Students will use this semester to create one of the following: a 3D animated film; a 2D animated film; an Experimental Animation film (Stop Motion, Mixture of 2D and 3D animation or a fully Interactive/Informative Media project). Students will produce all pre-production work including proposal, storyboards and animatics.

This course, offered in the final year, provides the students with practical application of skills developed in the Digital Media and Animation major. This directed study provides valuable real-life experience while extending the skills and good-will of the students towards the community. The student will be responsible for all aspects of the project for a community organization while under the guidance of the curriculum faculty. Internships outside the Alfred community are also an option and will be discussed throughout the students' junior year.

This course is a continuation of the sequence of 3D classes. It takes the projects introduced the previous semester in Advanced Modeling (CIAT 6303) and applies texturing, lighting, and rendering for 3D animation. Students will create professional quality textures using traditional means as well as using software. They will design and use complex lighting systems and rendering techniques.

From experimental video and film title sequences to revolutionary TV commercials, broadcast design and motion graphics are used to inspire and influence. Through a series of exercises and projects, students will learn to design and create graphic-based imagery and be able to integrate typographical skills in their work.

This course introduces fundamental concepts of visual communications involved in understanding and controlling the performance of text and image elements in a field. Emphasis will be on the creative process of making images that can convey ideas and information to others. Students will learn steps to take to create a concept, log line, treatment, storyboard, color studies, lighting studies, and animatic(s) for their proposed project. They will learn how to compile all of these elements into a presentation that they will give in front of professors and industry professionals.

This course is a continuation of Interactive Authoring. Students expand their interactive authoring skills as they are introduced developing interactive technologies and interactive 3D spaces. Students are taught interaction-based authoring programs used to communicate with viewers both visually and verbally through voice and sound. Students explore the possibilities of communication through interactive media through studio experiments and complete interactive titles of their own design that incorporate concepts covered in class.