Visual Development

The Visual Development certificate is comprehensive study of the visual development pre-production process used in the entertainment industry. Students learn to create high quality visual development art and storyboard animatics for a variety of projects using standard industry tools and methods.

Program Learning Outcomes: Create original content that demonstrates an understanding of professional visual development process. Develop an effective portfolio for transfer or entry-level employment in the entertainment industry.

Based on most recent data regarding enrollments and success rates, we project approximately 30-50 completions annually.

The Visual Development certificate develops the necessary skills for creating high quality visual development art and storyboard animatics for use in the entertainment industry. Students will receive hands-on experience with industry tools and methods, and will develop an effective portfolio for transfer or entry-level employment.

The Visual Development concentration is composed of fundamental art and drawing courses, project-based visual design courses, a career development course, and a capstone studio course for portfolio development.

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)
ANIM 18	Perspective Drawing	2	S1
ANIM 19	Color Theory and Application	2	S1
ANIM 40	Character Design	3	S1
ANIM 41	Environment Design	3	S2
ANIM 42	Prop and Vehicle Design	3	S2

ANIM 75, Career Development, 2, S3

ANIM 85, Animation Studio, 3, S3

Students with no prior experience are strongly encouraged to complete the Animation Foundation Certificate of Achievement before enrolling in the Visual Development program.

The existing Animation program, consisting of a Certificate of Achievement and A.S. Degree, is a total of 50 major units, making it nearly impossible for students to complete in two years. We propose to restructure the Animation CoA by reducing the required units 34 to 15 and renaming it Animation Foundation. The existing areas of concentration will be converted from department certificates to stackable Certificates of Achievement in 2D Animation, 3D Animation, 3D Production, and Visual Development. Students who complete the Animation Foundation CoA and at least one concentration CoA will be eligible for the Animation A.S Degree upon completing the required GE. We believe by streamlining the Animation program into these stackable certificates, we can significantly increase student completions and more easily facilitate articulation to four-year schools while maintaining alignment with the needs of industry.

Cerritos College, Digital Arts: Computer Animation Cypress College, Animation 2D Computer Graphics East Los Angeles College, Animation (Level 2) El Camino College, Digital Arts: Computer Animation Fullerton, Computer Animation/Multi Media Glendale Community College, Digital Animation Mt. San Antonio College, Animation Rio Hondo, Animation

We estimate 150 unique annual enrollments based on a cap of 30 students per section.