AT 262 - Digital Art and Animation

Credit Hours: 3

This is a studio course that explores visual art and design through sound, animation, interactivity, images, and video. Students will work with a variety of software programs to create strong conceptual artworks that disseminate information through non-traditional means. Course topics will require students to consider aesthetic issues, interactive navigation as well as linear and non-linear narration.

Fulfills SUNY General Education – The Arts.

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

work with various software programs to create linear and non-linear time based designs;
create animation, including traditional frame-by-frame animation, as well as computer-generated animation;
work with software based features that focus specifically on interactive navigation;
incorporate concepts of how sound can function in an interactive design;
develop strong conceptual and visual artworks that include sound, animation, interactivity and video; and
think and communicate fluently in regard to technical and conceptual aspects of new media.

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