Course Title: Multimedia Arts Certificate
Hours required: 420
Price: $5,595
Length course offered: N/A
Instructor: Taz Tally [Bio]
Description:
This nationally recognized Multimedia Arts online certificate program and training program focuses on providing the conceptual, technical, and visual design skills required to create multimedia applications and environments. Students learn professional applications for Adobe Photoshop, Flash, and After Effects, as well as digital video editing.
Course projects include critique, story boarding, retouching, compositing, Flash animation and site design, basic Action-Scripting, video and sound editing principles, motion graphics production, and user interface design. This online certificate program is offered in partnership with major colleges, universities, and other accredited education providers.
Goals:
Students who complete the program can expect to learn to: * Prepare bitmap images for print or digital media using basic Photoshop retouching and correction techniques, collage, and compositing. * Design basic Flash page graphics, animations, ads, and promotional sites. * Shoot and edit creative digital video content and perform basic pre- and post-video production tasks. * Gain a basic understanding of creative and career options in the multimedia field ( optional elective ).
* Develop effective color schemes for different clients or projects using the principles of color harmony. * Use typography effectively by following the basic principles of typography design, selection, and layout. * Create a basic Flash Web site with consistent, attractive visuals, navigation, and typography. * Apply basic editing techniques in digital video projects, organizing the material and editing it into a coherent sequence. * Develop a working knowledge of how to create motion graphics in Adobe After Effects, using different kinds of interpolation and importing masks, layer masks, and backgrounds.
Grading System:
Confirmation of Completion awarded with passing score.
School Description:
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Instructor Bio: Taz Tally
Students receive critique and feedback from with a faculty of art and design professionals. Instructors for this program include: Dr. Taz Tally is the president of Taz Tally Seminars, a computer publishing consulting and training company. Taz is the author of numerous graphics and print production books including Photoshop Before and After Makeovers, Acrobat and PDF Solutions, Avoiding the Output Blues, Avoiding the Scanning Blues, and is a contributing author to The Photoshop World Dream Team Book. Taz has produced numerous instructional videos, CDs, and DVDs on scanning, prepress, Photoshop, color correction, and font management. Taz is a frequent presenter at seminars and trade shows throughout the U.S, and is a member of the Photoshop Dream Team at the biannual Photoshop World convention. Taz is a frequent contributor to Photoshop User magazine, for which he writes a regular prepress column. Donald Gambino is a computer artist, consultant, educator, and trainer, since 1983, teaching students of all levels and abilities. Formerly the Chairperson of the Computer Art Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, he has taught innovative computer art courses for over 12 years, and created the BFA program in Computer Art. David Witt is a San Francisco-based new media artist and award-winning interactive multimedia designer. He has worked for many top brands and agencies, and has a background in graphic design, web design, digital imaging and high-end print production. His current focus is on creating new paradigms in interface design and multimedia applications using FlashMX/Actionscript. David holds a MFA in Design + Technology from Parsons School of Design. Andrew Shalat is an author, designer/illustrator, educator, and Mac expert. Since 1985 he has been designing and writing articles for Macintosh, Mac software, and publishing technologies that have appeared in Macworld, maccentral.com and macweek.com (for which he was a columnist writing "Shalat's Web"). He currently has two books: Do It Yourself Mac Projects, published by McGraw-Hill, and MacDesign Out of the Box, published by Inside Mac Press. Andrew's design work covers a large range of media including book, CD and DVD covers, brochures, catalogs, outdoor signage, print ads, artwork, logos, Flash and Web design, and grocery lists. Over the past two decades, he's taught literature, writing, Web design, and print design. Yeesan Loh is an interior designer, photographer, painter, and graphic designer who has extensive experience in architecture. Yeesan's photography and painting has been exhibited in Artworks Gallery in Miami and The Las Olas Art Center in Fort Lauderdale and her photo essays published in Vida magazine in Asia. Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, she is currently an associate in Design Space Associates, a Florida-based interior design firm; co-owner and residential designer of StopDrop&Roll, a graphic tees company based in Buenos Aires; and a "New Malaysian," as featured by Harper's Bazaar, Malaysia. Margaret Penney is a teacher, designer, writer and media artist. Margaret teaches Web, print and motion graphic design, multimedia, and JAVA programming at an independent school outside New York City where she designs the Computer Science department curriculum. As a Web designer and developer, Margaret has created a multi-channel community portal for Hong Kong teenagers; ecommerce for Delias.com girls' clothing; a flash promotional for Nike; and currently she is working on a site for artist Sol Lewitt. As a new media artist, she has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City; and around NYC. Her artwork has been reviewed globally online, in print magazines, and included in the book Eye Candy from the Underground: Fresh Styles for Web Designers. She has lectured on new media art at Purchase College, the School of Visual Arts Annual Conference for Educators, and the Pratt Institute. As a writer, she has been published in New York Arts magazine, Rhizome.org, and the Baltimore City paper. Margaret has a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and M.F.A. from Columbia University. Bruce Bicknell is a writer, instructor, illustrator, animator, Web designer, video editor, marketing pro, and graphic designer based in Tampa, Florida. In his career he has worked on projects for Adobe Systems, ATI, Photoshop Elements Techniques, MacTribe, Yellow Machine and Mac Design to name a few. Bruce has degrees in Computer Animation and Web Development from The International Academy of Design and Technology.
