Designing Digital Worlds

Catalog description

Equips students with the essential skills and knowledge to bring imaginative worlds to life. Students embark on a journey through the critical foundations of 3D modeling, mastering the intricacies of tools and techniques to create detailed environments, characters and objects. With the power of real-time rendering engines, students learn how to sculpt their creations, applying dynamic lighting, physics and interactivity to construct immersive experiences. Also introduces a worldbuilding practice in order to challenge students to critically think about the narratives, ecosystems and cultural elements that make a digital environment as well as its characters and objects, compelling and engaging. Through hands-on technical sessions, project-based collaborative exercises and critical analysis, students emerge with the ability to imagine and craft engaging worlds that captivate and inspire. Prepares students to transform their vision into reality and shape the future of digital experiences.