Today, artists use computers as a tool in many different ways for things like digital painting, image editing, illustration, page design, web design, film and video editing and animation (both 2D and 3D). This course consists of 2 components: Computer Animation and Computer Graphics.
      In the Computer Graphics portion of the course students will create, produce and disseminate information, ideas and feelings expressed through words, symbols and digital images printed on paper, and other materials through a series of tutorials and assignments using Adobe Photoshop software.
      In the Animation portion of the course the student becomes the producer, art director, cinematographer and director all rolled into one. The “actors” consist of objects the student builds in LightWave 3D’s Modeler interface and choreograph their objects movement, lights and camera in LightWave’s Layout interface.
Advanced level students will work on individual projects.
This course is available to a maximum of 15 students, who have successfully completed the Art 9 Experiential and Visual Arts Survey 1 courses or with the permission of the instructor.