Complex menu structures, rotations and scaling, color mapping and palette design, font generation, video digitizing techniques, composition studies, and aesthetic concerns. Students construct a series of images to explore the creative process using elements of design. Through critiques, students discuss the conceptual and visual quality of their work. Advanced computer graphics concepts as applied to computer animation. Lab assignments address the technical and aesthetic challenges of computer animation.
Students learn to transfer computer generated images to videotape format.
Short animated sequences with accompanying audio are designed and executed. Course will investigate and present current networked computer technologies with special attention and focus on their artistic applications. Overview and comparison of current internet content development applications, hardware architectures, storage mediums, and interface schemes will be provided. At midterm, students will present an interactive network environment, and at the end of the semester, students will present an interactive networked art installation. Integration of the study of contemporary theory, philosophy, and artistic practices with the application of new media and technology.