Our Mission:
In the Concept Art minor students explore the intersections of Illustration, Animation, Game Design and Entertainment Design while developing technical skills in hand drawing and painting from observation, digital drawing and painting, and a range of AI techniques to design characters, props and environments.
Participating Departments:
Animation
Animation: Motion Design
Fashion
Fine Arts: Painting
Fine Arts: Photography
Fine Arts: Sculpture/New Genres
Game and Entertainment Design
Graphic Design
Illustration
Product Design
Toy Design
Program Learning Outcomes
Otis College Interdisciplinary Studies: Concept Art Minor Program Learning Outcomes are action words describing our approach to learning, and what we commit to our students.
Concept Art Minor Student Will:
Concept Art Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Disciplinary knowledge and skills
Proficient skills in perspective drawing, composition, color theory and visual storytelling, using wet, dry and digital media to design characters, props and environments. - Proficiency in industry-standard skills, technologies, and processes
Ability to create production ready assets using current industry technologies and workflows. - Cross-disciplinary awareness and practice
Developed practice grounded in two or more disciplines, understanding of how Concept Art fits into the overall production pipelines of animation, illustration, game and entertainment design.
Concept Art Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Innovation • Experimentation and play • Challenge to the status quo • Bravery in their work and their interactions with others
Ability to combine aspects of Concept Art with work in one's major and/or push the boundaries between each field.
Concept Art Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Capacity to communicate (orally, written, and/or visually) about their practice
Ability to clearly articulate the relationship between their work in Concept Art and their major and how these studies will help them achieve personal and professional goals. - Analysis of both ethical and aesthetic impacts of art and design
Critical examination of the social, cultural, and environmental implications of their work, demonstrating responsibility in designing characters, props and environments that engage and resonate with diverse audiences.
Concept Art Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Ability to work well, collaborate, and build relationships across differences in identity,
perspective, aesthetics and disciplines
with directors, artists and designers all contributing to different stages of a project's pipeline.
- Awareness of positionality – in the world, their field, their communities. • Integration
of skills and concepts:
between their majors and Concept Art minor, while understanding and articulating their positionality in their chosen fields.
Creative Writing Minor student work will demonstrate:
- Ability to define aspirations, future goals and their role within the creative economy.
Defined aspirations, future goals and one’s role as an interdisciplinary creative within the creative economy. - Compelling presentation and exhibition skills, through Annual Exhibition, Capstone,
and portfolios.
Successful completion and presentation of original Concept Art that resonates with intended audiences.
Course Requirments
15 credits of Concept Art and related courses are required to complete this minor. This can be 5 studio courses or 4 studio courses + 1 LAS course.
Students select courses based on guidance from the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, Minor Area Heads and Academic Advisors and must follow prerequisites when applicable. For the full list of courses that will count for this minor, along with recommended courses to take first, see the Minors Course Lists on the Registration page of the Dashboard (my.otis.edu). Students are advised to take minor classes in place of studio electives (or in place of one LAS elective), or for majors without electives by taking one extra class in each of 5 semesters spread out between sophomore and senior year.
Electives