As they explore a variety of materials, students focus on clay hand-building techniques. These styles include hero comics, comic strip characters, advertising cartoons, political cartoons, and introductory animation techniques. This course offers good preparation for Drawing 1 and 2. No instant cameras may be used. Enrollment in this course makes a student eligible for articulated credit from the College of DuPage.
Students focus on exploration and creativity.
Students must have access to a 35mm camera. Enrollment in this course makes a student eligible for articulated credit from the College of DuPage. They also learn about changes in artistic approaches to film making by studying directors whose work has been acknowledged for its greatness. Students examine movies both as the shapers and the products of culture and society. They also learn about technical and aesthetic advances in film making.