Programs

The Digital Art Lv1 is designed for 7-9 year old students on how to use digital medium to create art and design that is unique to digital art and illustration. This class is a general class that covers various areas of digital art allowing students to explore what is possible. In this class students will be creating projects from various focuses including cartoon, illustration and design.

The Digital Art Lv2 class is designed to teach students 10 year old and up on how to use artistic computer software in order to create art and design that is unique to digital art and illustration. This class is a general class that covers various areas of digital art allowing students to explore what is possible. In this class students will be creating projects from various focuses including, typography, illustration, visual development, infographic and graphic design.

Digital Painting (Offered through Fremont, Mountain View, Cupertino and Online Campuses) is a technique that is used amongst professional artists in illustration, animation, concept art, etc. Though many of the painting principles transfer over to digital painting, a lot of the techniques and processes do not. The objective of the class/course/workshop is to learn how to use digital tools to efficiently approach painting, while upholding the principles of fundamental painting. In this class students will be creating projects from various focuses including animal painting, portrait painting, landscape painting and still life painting.

Digital Anime (Offered through Newark, Fremont, Mountain View, Cupertino and Online Campuses) have become a staple in young people’s literary consumption and they continue to become more sophisticated not only in art but in storytelling as well. Many modern comics like March are now considered literary works of art in the same vein as classic novels like to Kill a Mockingbird. This gives us an opportunity to use the popularity of comics and manga to introduce many students to the fundamentals of drawing and to unlock their hidden passion for visual storytelling.

Digital 3D (Offered at Cupertino, San Jose and Online Campuses) is now more and more common in day-to-day media that we come into contact with. From incredible, hyper-realistic films, stylized 3D movies, games, and advertisements in entertainment to the practical application of 3D in design pipelines within multiple medical, engineering, and design fields, 3D has become a staple of many artists’ workflows. This course will take students through their first steps in the 3D world and help them understand what it takes to create within the 3D space.

Digital Art Portfolio class (Offered through Cupertino, Mountain View and Online Campuses) is designed to assist students 14 years old and upon developing their portfolio pieces for competitions, AP art portfolio and college applications. This class will guide students to develop their ideas, and continuously develop individual interests. Instructor will interview students about their plan in trial class.