VIS 172Motion Design and Visual Effects
Artists and filmmakers have been visualizing the impossible since the inception of motion pictures and photography. Motion design and visual effects allow artists to interrupt reality, instead presenting ingenious illusions that propel and inspire our imaginations. Students will learn foundational motion graphics and visual effects strategies and theories, including image compositing, matte design, and fundamentals of 3-D modeling and animation. Two production-course limitation.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “VIS 174. Open to media and cinematic arts majors and film production minors only.”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (1)
- Visual Arts (Media) (B.A.)
Courses that list VIS 172 as a prerequisite (11)
- FILM 180 Advanced 3-D and CGI
- VIS 180 Advanced Projects in 3-D and CGI
- VIS 180A Documentary Evidence and the Construction of Authenticity in Current Media Practices
- VIS 180B Fiction and Allegory in Current Media Practices
- VIS 181 Advanced Sound and Lighting
- VIS 182 Advanced Editing
- VIS 182A Advanced Digital Photography Editing
- VIS 183A Strategies of Self
- VIS 183B Strategies of Alterity
- VIS 184 Advanced Scripting
- VIS 185 Senior Media Projects