ECA Visual Development Artist Track curriculum that inspires substantial growth

VISUAL DEVELOPMENT ARTIST CERTIFICATE TRACK

Enhance the story’s themes by crafting characters and worlds using a strong sense of appeal, color, design, and composition.

ENCOURAGING SUCCESS & DELIVERING RESULTS WITH AN OPEN CURRICULUM FORMAT

MEDIAN FULL-TIME PAY: $90K+/YEAR

Visual Development Artists are digital animators and illustrators that create background art for the video game, animation and visual effects industries. ECA’s curriculum ranges from 3D Modeling to Texturing, Staging, Rendering and Compositing.

Rigorously structured 4-month track

Focuses on Vis Dev design

Certificate of completion upon graduation

100% online & live; no pre-recorded courses

Runs online 8am-12pm PT, Mon-Fri

Honing skills from concept to completion

≈ 330 hours of live courses per track

Project-based curriculum

ENROLL TODAY FOR ONLY $5,000

*The $5,000 tuition fees cover both $2,500 terms, to which are added $250 admissions fees to secure your seat into the CAREER ACCELERATOR.

EXPLORE THE VIS DEV ARTIST CERTIFICATE CURRICULUM

Our Vis Dev Artist Certificate Track is designed to cultivate the best talent available for the entertainment industry, resulting in artistic integrity, ability, and a skill-set that is appreciated, respected, and able to flourish. This 4-month long track is split into two 2-month terms. Students are encouraged to take both terms, but may attend a single one as long as they meet the requirements (check our FAQ for more details).

TERM 1

(Spring Semester: Mar-Apr / Fall Semester: Sep-Oct)

TERM 2

(Spring Semester: May-Jun / Fall Semester: Nov-Dec)

201 – Professional Practices

202 – Portfolio Design

203 – 3D Modeling

204 – Master Photoshop

205 – Gesture Drawing

206 – Unreal Engine

207-1 – Composition & Staging 1

208-1 – Concept in Photoshop 1

207-2 – Composition & Staging 2

208-2 – Concept in Photoshop 2

209 – Cultural Context

210 – Compositing

211 – Matte Painting

212 – Chara Design

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES

Learn what it takes to succeed in entrepreneurial ventures, including contracts, copyrights, finance/accounting, marketing, and partnerships.

PORTFOLIO DESIGN

Analyze marketing aspects of demo reels, portfolios, and learn to create a successful personal brand.

The objective of this course is to provide the best strategy to pursue employment in the artist’s chosen industry.

3D MODELING

Master low poly modeling within a 3D platform and learn to use universal interface tools for production.

MASTER PHOTOSHOP

Master Photoshop from its technical side: become an expert by mastering brush libraries, layer masks, color management & levels, and more.

GESTURE DRAWING

Foundations in basic anatomy and posing. Create characters based on inspiration from live models and pre-selected imagery that reflect the student’s unique style and creativity.

WORLD BUILDING IN UNREAL ENGINE

The objective of this course is to learn the fundamentals of world building in Unreal Engine. Unreal Engine is the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool for photoreal visuals and immersive experiences.

COMPOSITION & STAGING 1

Create a believable and dynamic composition integrating all the elemental components for coherent perspective, scale, motion, and mood.

COMPOSITION & STAGING 2

This course is a continuation of Composition & Staging 1. Students will leverage what they’ve learned from the previous course to expand creativity on their projects.

CULTURAL CONTEXT

Discussion of art history as it relates to the creative process. Students will critically examine the role of cultural and architectural references with regard to background design. An emphasis will be placed on constructing concise and creative narratives as supported by mood boards and SEL exercises.

CONCEPTING IN PHOTOSHOP 1

This course focuses on the fundamentals of color and light to include shadows, reflection, identifying color temperature, and color mixing. Students will expand on existing visual techniques and master the rules of color and light in order to create accurate and believable images.

CONCEPTING IN PHOTOSHOP 2

This course is a continuation of Concept in Photoshop 1. Students will leverage the fundamentals they learned in the previous course to push the creative limits when making their artistic compositions.

COMPOSITING

This course centers on the fundamentals of compositing images from multiple sources to efficiently create backgrounds. Emphasis is placed on user interface, composition, keyframing, layers, footage, color keys, tools and workflows.

MATTE PAINTING

Photoshop for both CG design and photomontages. Master skills to become a stand-alone technician using these software essentials.

CHARACTER DESIGN

Students will use their creativity and design characters by understanding the concepts of silhouettes, line-up, turn-around and matching styles for both humans and animals.

ENROLL TODAY FOR ONLY $5,000

*The $5,000 tuition fees cover both $2,500 terms, to which are added $250 admissions fees to secure your seat into the Career Accelerator.

MEET OUR ESTEEMED VIS DEV ARTIST TRACK INSTRUCTORS

Our revered faculty member’s experience collectively covers a number of remarkable disciplines which therein propels student success. Our instructors hail all the way from the United States to Turkey, Hong-Kong, Nigeria, Australia, France, Portugal and beyond. ECA believes in cultivating a global perspective.