60-355 Animation Seminar: Portfolio and Project Development

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This seminar course is for juniors and seniors who are developing portfolios in animation. It provides a unique opportunity to receive industrybased critique and presents an extended roster of visitors from across the field of animation. This course focuses on how animators can present their strengths as artists, while highlighting their abilities and promoting their most original and forwardthinking ideas. Meaningful creative engagement with your instructor, visitors, and classmates focuses on building community and support systems to help navigate the everevolving worlds of animation, games, immersive media, and visual effects. Some takeaways include, but are not limited to formulating an ambitious portfolio that resonates within the competitive climate of creative media industries increased curiosity and knowledge of the fields many paths and production models and the importance of adaptability, teamwork, and creative risktaking. This course can be taken for studio credit, and will be held online.

Prerequisites: none listed

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