In Digital Art & Photography, students learn the fundamentals of taking pictures and working with images in the world’s most popular photo editing software: Photoshop! Students in this class will create their own virtual rooms using nothing but images from the web and their very own Nikon DSLR camera (provided by the AV Club). Students […]
Sure, video games are the bees knees, but board games are actually making a huge comeback. So much so that even some current video games got their start as board games (you just wait for Cyberpunk 2077 to come out). In Board Game Design & Illustration, students learn to design a board game from the […]
Ever wish you could build a 16-wheeled, rocket-propelled, land-based mobile fortress capable of traversing mountains and winding through forests? How about a hovercraft able to reach land speeds of 120 miles per hour without so much as a bump in the chassy? Sure, we’ve all dreamt of it, but who has the time or money […]
Just the fun stuff! In Graphic Design Concepts, students jump headfirst into design that inspires: books, album covers, video game packaging, posters and logos! We take our vision from sketch to screen and in the end, everyone gets to take home a t-shirt with their very own design! You get a t-shirt! And you get […]
Web design is an important tool for anyone to learn. Today, the internet is the gateway to so many things in our lives. From the products we buy, to the news we read and how we communicate with loved-ones: the internet is our chosen platform. In Intro to HTML & CSS we cover the basics […]
Alice is a multi-functional, drag-and-drop programming platform developed specifically to teach kids in a fun and unintimidating way. Teach what, exactly? Well, that’s the beauty of Alice: it teaches kids a little bit of everything – coding, game design, animation, interactive storytelling, filmmaking and more. In Digital Storytelling with Alice, students create productions using several […]
Remember Mega Man? How about Double Dragon? Well, surely you remember Mario Bros!? In the golden age of video games, the pixel reigned supreme and today, the queen is making her comeback. From the latest titles like Death Road to Canada and Undertale to recent insta-classics like Fez and Super Meat Boy, pixel art is […]
Who says you need a fancy computer or an expensive console to play fun games? With the introduction of HTML5, gamers can now enjoy all kinds of games quickly and easily right inside their favorite browsers! And guess what: gamers can become game-makers too with a little knowledge of Javascript and a little imagination. In […]
In Intro to Gamemaker, students learn to create 2D games with Gamemaker, a powerful game development platform with wide appeal among Indie-game developers. And it’s appealing for good reason: it has native drag-and-drop programming functionality that allows beginning developers to start making stuff right away, without the need for programming knowledge! But it’s also robust: […]
In Experimental Digital Photography, DSLR cameras are our tool for discovering and redefining the world around us. Wide open apertures and super-slow shutters, motion blurs and trails of light… this is the stuff of experimental photography. We learn the rules by breaking them and through experimentation we discover the true nature of how our cameras […]
“Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.” – Joel Sternfeld It’s been said that all beginning photographers should start out shooting black & white and we agree! In Black & White Digital Photography, students learn the power of contrast. We hunt for shadows, explore abstract shapes, quest […]
Imaginations come to life with Blender: a powerful, open-source 3D modeling and animation program used in movies like Spiderman 2, Sintel and Big Buck Bunny. Who hasn’t dreamt of creating a fire-breathing, 3D animated dragon named Moidiss or modeling a new race of aliens from planet Z9 bent on total annihilation? In 3D Animation with […]
It’s back to the basics with Toonz: the powerful, open-source 2D animation program used in productions by iconic Studio Ghibli and in the hit TV-series Futurama. In this course, students bring their vision to life with nothing more than a tablet, a stylus and a lot of imagination! It’s old-school animation meets new-school technology. We […]