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Students are engaged in a comprehensive exploration of the elements of comics through several exercises, culminating in one project. Students learn about various techniques, mechanics, structures, and vocabulary employed in the production of published comics media. This course is one in two courses in Comics Storytelling.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 231, DIL 246, DIL 261
This is the second of two comics storytelling courses. This course expands on elements introduced in Comics I. Students explore the production of comics from script to final through development of stories, adapted or ‘kit-bashed.’ Students also review the intersections between narrative perspective and narrative experience, as well as an investigation of causality’s impact on storytelling.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 321
This is the first of two visual development intensive courses. Throughout this course, students explore what it means to be a character designer in the animation industry. The semester will begin with a deep dive into theory and will end with a capstone, collaborative project of a student’s choice. Student participants should have taken DIL 386 Introduction to Visual Development prior to taking this course. Faculty approval required to register.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 386
This is the second intensive course on visual development taken after Visual Development I: Character Intensive. Throughout this course, students explore what it means to be an environment designer in the animation industry. The semester begins with a deep dive into theory and ends with a capstone, collaborative project of a student’s choice. Faculty approval is required to register.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 387
This course explores the wide range of techniques employed when painting with transparent acrylic, watercolor, and oil paint. Some of the methods examined and applied by the students to create illustrations in class are monochromatic, under-painting, glazing, dry brush, scumbling, wet-on-wet, gradations, renaissance, sfumato and the combination and joining of traditional and digital mediums. Successful and well-known artists from a variety of cultural backgrounds, genders, and sexual identity/orientations that have used these methods are studied. Assignments include figure, book, institutional, editorial, landscape, product, and fashion illustration.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 231, DIL 246
In this course, students explore the characteristic of children’s book illustration, including age, gender, disability/differently- abled, economic class, climate change/justice, and global cultures. A variety of techniques are explored relevant to the translation of a story into visual form. Professional conditions and business practices connected to the profession of children’s book illustration are considered. Sketchbooks are an important component in the overall project mix.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 231, DIL 246
Junior or first-semester senior students in good academic standing have the opportunity to spend a semester (fall or winter) or a full year of study at an accredited institution abroad. Information is available from International Student Services.
Credits: 12
Prerequisites: DIL 246, DIL 247, DIL 261, DIL 270, DIL 281
This course explores various procedures and professional methods used in creating and developing powerful, dynamic solutions for a variety of subjects including social justice and climate justice and sustainability among other important issues. Students learn how to clearly communicate the one idea or symbol associated with a poster. This course takes students from preliminary sketches to finished art and involves the use of many mediums (oils, acrylics, etc) and techniques.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 246, DIL 261
In this course students learn how to synthesize ideas and narratives of written texts into effective illustration. In addition, best practices and working methods of an editorial and publishing illustrator will be learned. By the end of this course, the students will demonstrate a knowledge of how current conceptual editorial illustration practice relates to issues surrounding race, gender, sexual orientation/Identity, community development, disability/differently-abled, climate change/justice/sustainability, global cultures, and economic class.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 231
The course continues the development and reinforcement of the critical thinking/conceptual method students develop in previous figure drawing classes, and focuses this skillset towards the entertainment/conceptual illustration marketplace. This course furthers the student’s skillset by combining the knowledge of perspective and animal/human anatomy with fully realized illustrative compositions. Assignments will emphasize how to combine all of these skillsets into creating fully realized narrative image-making. The typical professional illustrator’s “workflow” process will be stressed in this course, with a heavy emphasis that includes thumbnail (ideation) sketches, rough sketches, color sketches, and finished art for example.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: DIL 231