Category: Illustration

This course offers fundamental instruction needed for development of visualization skills and vocabulary applied in the production of storyboards for cinema, gaming, animatics, television and advertising directed towards diverse audiences and markets. Students learn to utilize traditional drawing mediums to produce finished projects. Assignments cover composition, storytelling, camera angles and moves and presentation values to meet industry standards. Open to non-majors with departmental approval.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 258

Participation in an internship experience allows students to use classroom-learned skills in a related employment experience. Students must work a minimum of 135 hours over the course of the entire semester. To participate students must be of junior or senior status with completion of freshman and sophomore studios. Students must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.8. Seniors may not be eligible to participate in an internship during their final semester. Transfer students must have attended one semester at CCS in addition to meeting the other eligibility criteria.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 246, DIL 247, DIL 261

This course is a continuation of Perspective. It covers advanced uses of mechanical and freehand perspective such as plan projection, drawing, orthographic drawing and curvilinear perspective as it is applied in the field of Entertainment and Traditional Illustration. Projects are given that utilize this information and contribute to the creation of environments that have a sense of spatial dimension based on linear and atmospheric perspective. The process of ideation leading to the completion of the finished illustrations are also explored. Students maintain a sketchbook of volumetric drawings that pertain to the various illustration projects completed during the semester.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 158

This course facilitates training in speed drawing, perspective, conceptual story development and cinematic language capabilities utilized for the creation and design of storyboards for diverse audiences. These skills prepare students with narrative conceptualization capabilities that can be utilized in pre-production in a variety of entertainment-related areas such as advertising, film, animation and video game development.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 261

In this course, with the assistance of the instructor, students create artist statements, and conceive of a body of work to start exploring in Illustration Studio A. The work (or portfolio) created in this course establishes the artist’s point of entry into their chosen market(s) or path within the illustration industry. The students’ artist statements will demonstrate a knowledge of current industry practice, and students are encouraged and guided to explore how their chosen direction relates to race, gender, sexual orientation/Identity, community development, disability/differently-abled, climate change/justice/sustainability, global cultures, and economic class.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 340, DIL 342

In this course, students develop the ability to work with digital tools and concepts. There is an initial emphasis on sketching and shading using the Wacom tablet. Radiative color theory is explored and students are introduced to website construction, allowing them to use earlier work which is imported using digital cameras and scanners. Current industry applications are utilized.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 247

In this course, junior illustration students will begin the process of creating a focused body of illustration that demonstrates a consistent theme, is aimed at their chosen markets, and is the beginning of serious professional portfolio development. Students will also write a brief assessing their own picture-making process and goals. Presentation and public speaking skills will be emphasized. Through this process of self-assessment, and with the guidance of their instructor, students will begin to develop an understanding of their own mediums and the professional illustrator’s workflow process. In combination with researching their chosen illustration markets, students are guided in the exploration of how their body of work and ideas relate to race, gender, sexual orientation/Identity, community development, disability/differently-abled, global cultures, and economic class.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 231

This course is a continuation of DIL 483. With the assistance of the instructor, students continue to explore and revise their artist statements and body of work started in Illustration Studio A. The work (or portfolio) created in this course establishes the artist’s point of entry into their chosen market(s) or path within the illustration industry. The students’ artist statements will demonstrate a knowledge of current industry practice, and students are encouraged to explore how their chosen direction relates to race, gender, sexual orientation/Identity, community development, disability/differently-abled, climate change/justice/sustainability, global cultures, and economic class.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 340, DIL 342

This course introduces students to basic design concepts, use of image, color, principles of typographic composition, structure and message hierarchy. Students participate in a four-week printmaking experience integrated with new technologies. Industry standard programs and applications are utilized.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 158, DIL 159

In this course, junior illustration students will begin the process of creating a focused body of illustration that demonstrates a consistent theme, is aimed at their chosen markets, and is the beginning of serious professional portfolio development. Students will also write a brief assessing their own picture-making process and goals. Presentation and public speaking skills will be emphasized. Through this process of self-assessment, and with the guidance of their instructor, students will begin to develop an understanding of their own mediums and the professional illustrator’s workflow process. In this course, junior illustration students will begin the process of creating a focused body of illustration that demonstrates a consistent theme, is aimed at their chosen markets, and is the beginning of serious professional portfolio development. Students will also write a brief assessing their own picture-making process and goals. Presentation and public speaking skills will be emphasized. Through this process of self-assessment, and with the guidance of their instructor, students will begin to develop an understanding of their own mediums and the professional illustrator’s workflow process. In combination with researching their chosen illustration markets, students are guided in the exploration of how their body of work and ideas relate to race, gender, sexual orientation/Identity, community development, disability/differently-abled, global cultures, and economic class.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DIL 340