This course explores the past, present and future aspects of multimedia, and how technology impacts current design. The history of visual presentation and the graphic effects is reviewed. This course covers composition and color theory as it relates to the multimedia or online delivery. The psychology of color and how it relates to effectively design with RGB, subtractive color.
Students learn how to change vector, raster, and digital color images to the multimedia environment.
Emphasis is placed on the emergence to luminosity of color in animation and differences relative to print media and how technology impacts color in an electronic platform. This course addresses a variety of detailed creativity and 3D techniques for the digital artist, from the initial concept stages to animating a project. In-class assignments include creating 3D rendering, special effects, and scripting techniques. Students learn how to create desktop animation and how to integrate text, graphics, audio and video quickly. The course covers motion blur, variable anti-aliasing, field rendering, particle systems, collision detection, and ray tracing.