Schedule

Spring 2012

(Workshops meet Tuesday evenings from 6-8pm in the Thaddeus Street Education Building in room 207)

January 24th: Graphic Design Basics
(Learn to create shapes, borders and textures)
January 31st: Animation with Keyframes
(Put your graphics into motion using keyframes)
February 7th: Cutting, Cropping, Moving, Pasting
(Learn the navigational tools of photoshop)
February 14th: Make your own Valentine’s Day Card
(Use Photoshop to create a custom card)
February 21st: Intro to Video Editing
(Get started on Final Cut Pro software)
February 28th: Digital Painting
(utilize digital paint brushes in Photoshop for graphics)
March 13th: Guest Speaker: Liz Vaughan
(Local artist will speak about animation)
March 20th: Guest Speaker: Karen Ann Myers
(Local artist describes digital workflow of graphics)
March 27th: Guest Speaker: Hunter Hegler
(Local artist explains pen tool in Adobe Illustrator)
April 3rd: Guest Speaker: Dennis Trapani
(Local video producer explains motion graphics)
April 10th: Graphic Design Basics
(Learn to create shapes, borders and textures)
 Charleston International Film Festival
April 11th  1-2 p.m:  Guest Speaker: VW Scheich
Learn about VFX Filmmaking from Director VW Scheich
April 11th 3-5 p.m: Movie Editing 3-5 p.m
 (Learn the fundamentals of editing using Final Cut Pro.
April 12th  3-5 p.m:  Soundscapes  3-5 p.m
 (Learn the tools used to create lush soundscapes.)
April 13th  3-5 p.m:  Animation      3-5 p.m
 (Virtual cameras, rotoscoping and keyframing will be covered.)
April 17th:  Guest Speaker: Chad Garrett
 (Local artist explains graphics from concept to computer)
April 24th:  Photoshop Photographs
 (Enhance photos with filters and effects)
May 1st:  Sound-scape Design
 (Build a sound-scape from scratch)

Fall 2011

September 13th: Animating a Logo
(learn to separate graphics by layer to animate)
September 20th: Digital Sandpaper
(avoid pixelated graphics from start to finish)
September 27th: Photoshop Filters
(turn ordinary photos into extraordinary graphics)
October 4th: Cutting to the Beat
(learn to sync audio tracks with video)
October 11th: Puppet Tool and other Animation tricks
(learn time-saving animation strategies)
October 18th: Cubes and 3-D
(discover the possibilities of creating a 3-D digital world)
October 25th: Digital Painting
(utilize digital paint brushes in Photoshop for graphics)
November 8th: Green Screen
(learn how to key and composite media with green screen)
November 15th: Monster vs. Robot
(assemble and animate characters)
November 22nd: Charcoal to Pixels
(scan and clone stamp organic objects into digital media)
December 6th: Virtual Lighting
(learn to add that special touch with digital lights)
December 13th: Rotoscoping
(learn the technique used in “Roger Rabbit”)

Past Semesters…

Summer 2011

May 19th:                              CIFF: Video Editing with Final Cut Pro  3-5PM
May 20th:                              CIFF: Animation Workshop  3-5PM

June 7th:                               X,Y,Z: Virtual Cameras in Computer Animation

June 14th:                             Green Screen to Cartoon

June 21th:                            Painting with Pixels

June 28th:                            Creating a Digital Flyer

July 5th:                                Syncing Picture to Sound

July 12th:                              Photoshop Editing to Photographs

July 19th:                              Photoshop to After Effects Pipeline

July 26th:                             Virtual Lighting            

August 9th:                           Digital Graphic Design Fundamentals

Spring 2011

February 1st:                          Graphics for Video

February 8th:                          Graphic Design

February 15th:                        Video Editing with Final Cut Pro

February 22nd:                       Cinematography

March 1st:                              Mixed Media & Digital Graphics

March 8th:                              Computer Animation

March 15th:                            Video Editing with Final Cut Pro

March 22nd:                            Sound Design

March 29th:                             HDR Digital Photography

April 5th:                                 Graphic Design

April 12th:                               Hand-Drawn Animation

April 19th:                               Charcoal to Pixels

April 26th:                               Video Editing with Final Cut Pro

May 3rd:                                  Video Editing with Final Cut Pro

Fall 2010

Summer 2010

Spring 2010


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