Courses

Look to your schedule for more information on these and other courses I will be teaching throughout the academic year:

BIT 210: Digital Animation
(register for Fall 2003 now!) Students will explore 2D animation basics using digital technologies in the production process. Traditional concepts of time and motion, character design, setting and sound will be introduced as digital processes. Animation content will be developed for various applications and optimized for current and emergent technologies, e.g. games, digital video and Internet applications. (Syllabus / Schedule)

BIT213: Digital Special Effects (coming Winter 2003) Students will explore various topics related to digitally produced special effects for a variety of media, e.g. video, Internet applications and multimedia. Concepts of motion graphics and dynamic media will be presented and current technologies and techniques will be explored. (Emphasis for will be production in After Effects). (Syllabus / Schedule)

BIT 175: Multimedia for the WWW Developing web-based multimedia. Students explore the use of high-bandwidth data types such as digital video, animation and audio on the Internet. Students gain hands on experience in advanced web-based multimedia (e.g. streaming media web sites). An emphasis is placed on working in teams and in creating effective media within any given technological limitations.
(Syllabus / Schedule)

BIT114: Visual Design for the WWW Students will explore issues of visual communication and the implementation of effective graphical content for web pages. Current web coding standards, e.g. XHTML and CSS, will be covered as students gain first-hand experience in creating and incorporating computer graphics and illustration into a variety of web applications. Emphasis will be placed on balancing aesthetics and usability as well as the critique and revision processes. (Syllabus / Schedule)