Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University
Waltham, MA, United States
http://www.cdiabu.com/

Recording Arts for Film, Games and Interactive Media

Learn the art of sound design at CDIA, where you¡¯ll study how music and sound are used in film, television, records, games, and new media. You¡¯ll be immersed in the world of audio, studio operations, music technology, and music production as you prepare for your career in the recording arts. At CDIA, you¡¯ll be taught by working professionals, who bring their real-world experience to the clas......
 

Discover exciting career possibilities in web design with the Interactive Design Certificate. You’ll learn all the skills and technologies you need to create and web sites, including how to incorporate images, forms, multimedia, interactivity and animation. Working with tools like BBedit, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash and JavaScript, you’ll design dynamic, media-rich web sites. Portfo......
 

Learn the art of design in practical, hands-on courses that will prepare you for a career as a graphic designer. You’ll study typography, layout and color as you learn to create powerful graphic design for print. Using the technologies the experts use, such as Illustrator, Photoshop, QuarkXpress, InDesign and Acrobat, you’ll become proficient in digital imaging, publication design and......
 

As broadband adoption increases, video becomes a more viable medium on the web. This module introduces students to basic digital video and audio production techniques using a non-linear editor. Students learn a production workflow composed of planning, production, editing, mastering, compression, and delivery. Topics include video and audio production fundamentals, bandwidth issues, video stand......
 

Web designers in today’s marketplace should have a basic understanding of how to make their web pages interactive. This module explores the basics of adding JavaScript to web pages to create dynamic features such as validating forms, switching CSS stylesheets, and displaying the date. PHP is a scripting language similar to HTML and provides a gentle introduction to server-side scripting. T......
 

This module focuses on creating animation and interactive web pages with Macromedia Flash. Students explore the Flash drawing tools, work with text, animate objects, use symbols and instances, learn motion tweening, incorporate sound and video, and create preloaders. The second week of class focuses on interactivity, basic ActionScript and using components to creative dynamic and media-rich web......
 

This module provides an introduction to Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady for editing images and optimizing them for the web. Topics include color correcting images, creating rollovers, making animated gifs, batch processing, creating buttons, and integration with XHTML and CSS layouts. Students learn how to creatively use techniques such as patterns, vector artwork and background images to build ......
 

This module runs for two weeks. A developing web standard, Cascading Style Sheets allows a designer greater control over the look and feel of a web page. The first week focusses on expanding students knowledge of CSS by emphasing how to finely control type on screen. Through a variety of type study projects, students learn the basic grammar of CSS including how to define color, size, typeface a......
 

This module builds on "Introduction to Interactive Design," helping students further refine their understanding of XHTML and CSS and how to maintain websites. Students learn how to create usable and accessible web pages and templates as well as how to incorporate images, forms, and multi-media into their pages. Learning how to make the best use of Dreamweaver’s site management fe......
 

The class provides an overview of the developing field of web design. The lectures and exercises help students develop basic design skills for the interactive web medium. Topics include the history of web design, understanding the networked nature of the internet and discussing the importance of usability. A quick tour of the applications to be used over the course of the program will be follow......
 

This module focuses on Acrobat with an emphasis on its prepress capabilities. Topics include understanding the PDF workflow, using Preflight to identify potential problems and using Acrobat Distiller. Students also learn how to create PDFs from various sources, use Acrobat’s commenting tools and explore other advanced features of the program. ...
 

This module focuses on prepress, the language of printing. Topics include a history of presses, the cost and use of ink and paper, printing negatives and plates, working with die cuts and paper folds. Students learn how printing can affect design, including working with transparency, spot colors and understanding trapping. Issues of color calibration, color management, and working with printers......
 

This module focuses on professional page design using the desktop publishing program Adobe InDesign. Students explore properties of page layout, including typography, image placement and using drawing tools. Topics include using master pages, working with native Photoshop and Illustrator files, using paragraph and character styles, creating a Table of Contents and exporting to PDF. Students wil......
 

This module focuses on professional page design using the desktop publishing program QuarkXpress. Students explore properties of page layout, including typography, image placement and using drawing tools. Color management and printing are also discussed. ...
 

This module provides an in-depth exploration of Adobe Photoshop, the industry standard for digital imaging. Students work on the basics of image editing, color correction, color management, preparing files for print and exporting images. Topics include working with layers, alpha channels, paths, selections and filters. Exercises prepare students for a real-world production environment. (2 Weeks) ...
 

This module introduces students to vector graphics for the print medium. The exercises are based around Illustrator, the most widely-used application for creating vector graphics. The module provides students practical production skills for creating logos, charts, illustrations and diagrams. Students master the pen tool and work with anchor points, segments and compound paths. Exercises encoura......
 

This module builds on "Introduction to Graphic Design," helping students further refine their design skills and sensibilities. Students explore the dual role of typography as a visualization of language and a design element. Through lecture and hand-on exercises, students learn about type, readability, structuring typographic layouts with and without grids and explore typeface combina......
 

This module provides an overview of the graphic design field. The lectures and exercises help students develop basic design skills for the print medium. Topics include history of graphic design, composition, color, type, form, the difference between vector and bitmap graphics and the digital workflow. Upon completion, students will have a foundation to build on in subsequent classes and a visua......
 

Prepare for a career in graphic and interactive design with the Graphic and Interactive Design Certificate. You’ll learn to design for print, the web and motion graphics with hands-on coursework that uses the latest design software tools. With practical training in publication design, color management, multimedia, interactivity and more, you’ll develop the skills you need to create co......
 

This workshop is an introduction to various rendering practices and techniques in Maya. Rendering in 3D software is used for a wide variety of purposes: artistic, design and realistic. Each approach to final rendering requires a different skill set and understanding of Maya rendering tools. Topics covered in this course include: Mental Ray, Vector rendering, Maya Hardware, Maya Softward, cartoo......
 

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