May 05, 2025  
BVU Academic Catalog 2024-2025 
    
BVU Academic Catalog 2024-2025
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ARTD 360 - Motion Graphics


3 Credit(s)

This studio course introduces students to the vocabularies and fundamental principles of time-based media design intended primarily for commercial or informative application. Students are introduced to the concepts of movement; transition; sequence; time and rhythm; pace; and editing.

Prerequisite(s): ARTD 180 , ARTD 185 , and ARTD 190 , or permission of the instructor.

Course Frequency: ALT F (odd years)

Grading Method: Student option.

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Technical ability: Students will produce professional work that demonstrates proficiency in digital and analog media, including but not limited to: using Adobe Illustrator, AfterEffects, Media Encoder, and storyboarding digitally and on paper.
  2. Narrative: Students will construct visual narratives using individual pieces of art, as well as storyboards and animatics.
  3. Time: Students will experiment with time as an artistic tool, including working in series, using animation, and the display and viewing of work.
  4. Historical, cultural, and social contexts: Students will articulate the significance of art history, contemporary artists and art movements to the making of art and design.
  5. Communication: Students will effectively communicate their ideas verbally, aesthetically, and in writing.



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