Digital Media
In the Digital Media program at Otis College—with a Los Angeles location at the epicenter of spectacular creative industries—you will learn from some of the most imaginative minds in the business and learn to tell compelling stories through one of our three areas of emphasis: Animation, Game & Entertainment Design, and Motion Design.
Your preparation for a creative career will involve marrying your mastery of real-world technological tools with your original visual conceptualizations. Our faculty—outstanding working professionals at such companies as Disney, Dreamworks, Nickelodeon, Sony, Insomniac, and Blizzard—will integrate their experiences in the classroom to foster your transformation into creative, skilled, and collaborative leaders. You will land your dream career in the diverse world of visual storytelling for film, television, video games, apps, and the web.
Digital Media students learn to communicate and tell stories through art, motion, and design.
In Digital Media, students learn to tell compelling stories through Animation, Game & Entertainment Design, and Motion Design. Otis students acquire real-world skills from leading designers, artists, and entrepreneurs. With a fundamental understanding of digital tools and their creative applications, graduates meet the demands of a diverse and expanding job market in visual storytelling for film, television, video games, apps, and the Web. Recent employers include Pixar, Disney, DreamWorks, WETA, ILM, Sony Imageworks, Nickelodeon, Electronic Arts, Blind, Brand New School, Imaginary Forces, Troika, Zoic, Sony Online Entertainment, and Blizzard.
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ANIMATION
Animation students bring characters and stories to life through the magic of computer animation. Using a wide variety of techniques, from traditional 2-D animation to 3-D computer-generated imagery (CGI), students learn to develop narratives that evoke emotion and create the illusion of movement. Special emphasis is placed on storytelling, character design, and acting, as well as traditional drawing skills and business acumen. Animation Career Magazine named us a top animation program in the West.
MOTION DESIGN
Motion Design combines typography, graphics, filmmaking, video, images, and sound to communicate ideas. Dynamic visuals for commercials, title design for feature films, TV shows, and websites, and the new and growing field of motion sequences in films and games—all are examples of Motion Design, in which students develop arresting time-based visual imagery that can be applied in a wide range of entertainment fields.
GAME & ENTERTAINMENT DESIGN
In Game & Entertainment Design, students learn to create the visual elements for games, apps, feature films, and other entertainment platforms. Students develop their skills in concept art and visual development, learning the principles and processes involved in creating the first visual representations of characters, environments, and props for films and games. Students also develop the skills to design the gameplay, environment, storyline, and characters of interactive games, apps, and websites. Using the most advanced CGI technologies, students acquire the techniques to create stunning visual effects for films, commercials, and videos.
Animation
With an emphasis in Animation students bring characters and stories to life through the magic of computer animation.
Game and Entertainment Design
This emphasis includes concept art, visual effects, modeling, and more. Students will learn to create visual elements for games, apps, films, and other entertainment platforms.
Motion Design
The Motion Design emphasis combines typography, graphics, filmmaking, video, images, and sound to communicate ideas.
Curriculum
View the general Digital Media curriculum as well as curricula for each area of emphasis.
Student Work
See recent graduates' portfolios and work from the college-wide annual exhibition held each spring.
Careers
By providing a fundamental understanding of digital tools and their creative applications, Digital Media prepares students to meet the demands of a diverse and expanding job market.
Faculty
Digital Media faculty are leaders in their chosen field, find out more about their work here.
Contact
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