Bachelor of Arts in Computer Animation & Game Design
Course descriptionThe Academy for Creative Media emphasizes narrative, or story telling, theories, skills and application across multiple platforms of digital media and within a context of cultural and aesthetic values. More than just a “film school,” ACM seeks to empower students to tell their own stories of Hawaii, the Pacific and Asia rather than have those stories told for them through a different cultural lens that is distant and often distorted.
ACM offers a core curriculum in three tracks: Digital Cinema, Computer Animation & Game Design, and Critical Studies.
Curriculum: CG Character Animation
215 - 3D Scene Design
216 - 3D Computer Animation
316 - 3D Character Animation
318 - Drawing for Animation
320 - Animation Production I
420 - Computer Animation Film Production
Game Design
215 - 3D Scene Design
216 - 3D Computer Animation
217 - 3D Particles and Dynamics
220 - 3D Advanced Rendering
315 - Narrative Game Design
350 - Screenwriting
Additional Classes for Advanced Study in Animation and Game Design
325 - Visual Effects
390 - Workshop in Creative Media
399 - Independent Group Project
415 - Computer Game Production
495 - Creative Media Internship
499 - Directed Reading and Research