Digital Special Effects

(CSC 475 / FST 492):

Interdisciplinary class covers aspects of manipulating digital imagery and video for special effects. Student teams of computer-science and film-studies majors will work together to learn and apply theoretical and practical issues. Topics include image and video representation, digital workflow, lighting, rendering, compositing mixed environments (live and CG), morphing, particle effects, dynamics, camera properties, match-moving, filters, and virtual cinematography. Film-studies majors concentrate on planning, storyboarding, and producing short movies that apply special effects, while computer-science students focus on programming and technical implementation issues of special effects. (Prerequisites for CSC: 121, 220 ; Prerequisites for FST: 201, 220).