- Teacher: Kailey Allan
- Teacher: Aras Balali moghaddam
- Teacher: Bruce Fitz-Earle
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop focuses on colour correction techniques, image editing, working with layers, filters and effects, and becoming proficient with different selection tools. This course prepares learners for more advanced projects in DA112 and DA113.
- Teacher: Brian Lye
- Teacher: Kerry Pagdin
DA 104 – Introduction to Digital Photography provides an overview of the digital camera and related equipment, digital workflow and basic image manipulation in Adobe Photoshop. A strong emphasis is placed on how to compose compelling photographs using frame and perspective. It introduces shutter speed, aperture and exposure as a means of manipulating the creative outcome of an image. Topics also include light, depth-of-field, focal length, ISO and white balance. Students must have a digital camera with aperture (Av or A), shutter speed (Tv or S), AND manual (M) modes.
- Teacher: Brian Lye
This course is designed to support you to gain the insight and skills to expand your designs into a system for communicating a consistent and clear story about a product, service, subject or organization. You will be guided through the process of developing a visual identity with steps that include understanding context, concept development, refinement, application, style guide production, and delivery of client presentations.
- Teacher: Nichola Lytle
Learn about the anatomy and mechanics of written language then apply this understanding to choreograph text and image in your design practice. Expand your understanding of form, colour, composition, typography, hierarchy, juxtaposition and sequencing.
- Teacher: Nichola Lytle
DA 101 – Foundations of Digital Arts will introduce students to technical and creative principles of Digital Arts. Through lecture and in-class projects, students will work towards a strong understanding of the fundamental technical terms and concepts of digital art, image production and optimization. Students will be introduced to the technical and creative principles of digital images, file formats and colour information. A term project will be assigned and students will be guided through the processes and workflow of designing and managing a small Digital Arts project.
- Teacher: Nichola Lytle
DA 102: History of Art, Design & Film introduces students to major movements in art and design and offers an overview of the century-long transition from the introduction of moving pictures to contemporary, digital film making. Students explore the history of visual communication through art, design and cinema.
- Teacher: Amy Bohigian
- Teacher: Kerry Pagdin
Character Design & Animation takes an exhaustive approach to character design, character creation, rigging and animation. Students explore character design and assembly, rigging, and voice and mouth-shape synchronization. They use various methods of character animation to produce professional-quality animated shorts.
- Teacher: Zen (Zheng) Wang
DA 109: Art Fundamentals introduces students to the fundamental elements of art. Students are encouraged to improve their existing drawing skills and to experiment with new methods of expression. Students work with still life and the human form to explore line, texture, pattern, form, shape value, depth and composition. Human anatomy and proportion are also studied. Images from art history and advertising are analyzed to challenge students to see and create critically. Students are also acquainted with basic tools in Adobe Illustrator. Students will create completed artwork with both traditional media and Illustrator software.
- Teacher: Kerry Pagdin
DA 220: Film and Audio Production allows students to integrate the skills gained in DA 122: Introduction to Video and Audio to explore best professional practices as applied to the pre-production, production and post-production process of creating and delivering a short film. Students will also explore more advancedtechniques relevant to sound recording, editing and mixing for web, presentation and digital video.
- Teacher: Amy Bohigian
- Teacher: Geoff Gibbs
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- Teacher: Charla Beaulieu
- Teacher: Geoff Gibbs
- Teacher: Daryl Jolly
- Teacher: Nichola Lytle