Sound plays a crucial part in cinematic storytelling. However, its contribution to film narrative and our experience is often overlooked. The course introduces the fundamentals of sound design through lectures, production and post-production sound workshops, and experiential sound design assignments.

Welcome to Digital Magic: Introduction to Animation and Visual Effects. Students learn the art and technique of illusion, manipulating images through the use of digital animation and visual effects in service of storytelling. Lectures and hands-on workshops guide students through several styles and methods of animation, including stop motion, 2D, and basic 3D digital animation, and through the practical creation of visual effects for filmmaking such as green screen compositing, mattes and masks, and CGI. The course culminates in a public screening of student’s final projects.

Sound plays a crucial part in cinematic storytelling. However, its contribution to film narrative and our experience is often overlooked. The course introduces the fundamentals of sound design through lectures, production and post-production sound workshops, and experiential sound design assignments.

Through variations on realism in global cinema cultures -- such as social, magical, and documentary realism -- students examine how artists from diverse social backgrounds have rigorously expanded what reality is and how it can be represented on screen. Students will use this knowledge to make short films linking the personal and the social in the vein of their version of realism for the final project that culminates the course.

Welcome to Digital Magic: Introduction to Animation and Visual Effects. Students learn the art and technique of illusion, manipulating images through the use of digital animation and visual effects in service of storytelling. Lectures and hands-on workshops guide students through several styles and methods of animation, including stop motion, 2D, and basic 3D digital animation, and through the practical creation of visual effects for filmmaking such as green screen compositing, mattes and masks, and CGI. The course culminates in a public screening of student’s final projects.