DA 233: Portfolio Development provides students the opportunity to gain first-hand experience using a number of online and open source platforms to create dynamic web content. Students will practice platform and theme installation and configuration, plugin and module installation, and content creation. Students will utilize their skills to build and publish an online portfolio to showcase their work.
- Teacher: Tomoko Okochi
DA 121: Introduction to Animation introduces students to basic animation theory and mechanics. Students are challenged to demonstrate the principles of animation by creating animated sequences with believable characters. Students will explore the steps required to produce a short animated film including: brainstorming, script writing, storyboarding, creating an animatic, character development, animation, and production.
- Teacher: Zen (Zheng) Wang
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
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
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
DA 112: Digital Image Making, introduces students to building custom digital artworks and illustrations in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Students exercise their creativity and software skills to create complex artworks.
- Teacher: Kerry Pagdin
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
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
This course will provide students with the opportunity to participate in a series of scenarios which require group participation and problem solving skills.
- Teacher: Geoff Gibbs
- Teacher: Nichola Lytle
- Teacher: Kailey Allan
- Teacher: Bruce Fitz-Earle
Professional Practices provides students with the essential tools and insight to prepare them for a career in digital arts. This course has been developed in accordance with the professional standards set in place by the AIGA (The Professional Association for Designers) and the GDC (The Society of Graphic Designers in Canada). This course will provide students with the essential tools and insight to prepare them for a career in the digital arts. Topics covered in this course include: client relationships, self-marketing and promotion, proposal and contract writing, copyright law, project management, business registration and tax collection and remittance.
- Teacher: Nichola Lytle
Important information for Digital Arts Students and Faculty
- Teacher: Geoff Gibbs
- Teacher: Daryl Jolly
- Teacher: Nichola Lytle