Art Studio

This course examines space design, space design rules and space design methods (shape, color and material); Maya software application (modeling part, material part and rendering part).

Reportage comics are now a recognized genre that already boasts several masterpieces. This genre is taking shape, evolving over the long term and through immersion rather than through current events and candid shots, leaving room for the author’s subjectivity, the revelation of their working methods, and more. On the theme of the city, its transformations, and its innovation, students work in pairs to create a comic book report: from choosing a subject and an angle to the complete production of two or three panels or a mini-publication, each pair experiences the entire creative process: compiling a documentary dossier, script, storyboard, pencil sketches, inking, etc.

In this studio course, students learn how to create visual narratives in sequential form. The emphasis is on visual narrative construction for the picture book, with some contextual history of the genre. Production aspects include analog and design techniques, continuity, and image and text relationships.

This course introduces the theories and practice of time-based media and motion graphics communication. It enables students to express ideas and messages through kinetics, time, and sequence using various techniques of graphic design and illustration integrated with motion aesthetics, animation principles, sound, and editing. Major topics include narrative and story development, dynamic graphic visualization, motion aesthetics, audio editing, and typography, utilizing with Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator.

This course examines the histories of design and art. It will include the analysis of selected visual and material cultural practices in a series of theme based modules that explore the origins and impacts of consumerism, globalization, sustainability.