Faculty: Honoria Starbuck, Chris Ozley, Matt Smith
Unique Number: 21755
An introduction to the wide range of AET offerings taught by experts in the fields of sound design, visualization, projection, lighting, and game design.
Faculty: TBD
Unique Number: 21780
An introduction to applied computational thinking and logical processes for solving technical problems with creative solutions.
Faculty: Neal Daugherty & Bill Byrne
Unique Number: 21806, 21804
An introduction to effective visual storytelling with 2D and 3D digital content.
Faculty: David Cohen & Honoria Starbuck
Unique Number: 21807, 21808
An introduction to user-centered design process, interactivity, and game design.
Faculty: Jessie Contour
Unique Number: 21814, 21813
An introduction to computer technologies, software systems, physical computing, and content production.
Faculty: Matt Smith & Kyle Evans
Unique Number: 21818, 21819
An introduction to dynamic sound, lighting, and video projection for screens and spaces.
Faculty: Chris Ozley
Unique Number: 21825
This course presents programming methods for MIDI and audio signal processing in the powerful music and audio, visual interface language Max/MSP — no programming experience required! Students will learn how to manage audio signal flow and communications with external devices such as keyboard controllers, pedals and other sensors. The course will cover the creation of systems for musical interactivity in live performance and immersive sound installation applications and will cover integration with Ableton Live — no experience in Ableton required!
Faculty: Chris Ozley
Unique Number: 21835
Explores the techniques of modern electronic dance music (EDM) improvisation through the use of the Ableton Push 2 Controller as a live, performable instrument. The aim of the course is to explore the improvisational and interactive aspects of modern electronic music while studying work of visionaries of the EDM world. Students will learn the principles of sequencing beats and playing drums, the principles of drum variations, sequential melodies live audio recording, routing, sidechaining, warping and will demonstrate the principles of live EDM performance.
Faculty: Lucas Dimick
Unique Number: 21845
Animation can bring characters, objects, and graphics to life. It’s the backbone of the computer graphics industry and plays an important role in film, visual effects, games, and motion graphics. This course is an introduction to the principles of animation for 2D and 3D systems. Students will use various techniques to convey a sense of weight, emotion, and story for simple and complex objects in both 2D and 3D.
Faculty: Neal Daugherty
Unique Number: 21849
This course will expand on student’s existing conceptual skills and further develop them to produce a clear and well-conceived visual vocabulary of artistic style, character development, environment design, and presentation strategies. The ultimate goals of this course is to prepare the student with the fundamentals of conceptual artistic style and applying it to the techniques of concept art. These new skills and concepts will empower the student so that they may be able to network with programmers, producers, and other artists. The student will be graded on their individual personal development. Individual and group instruction will address needs for proper presentation to the class and prospective collaborations.
Faculty: Isaac Oster
Unique Number: 21870, 21874
Students will use hard surface and organic modeling workflows, modern texturing techniques, and physically-based shaders to create efficient assets based on clear content goals.
Faculty: MJ Johns
Unique Number: 21889
Rapid creation and iteration of small interdisciplinary projects. In this class you'll bring skills you've learned in 2D or 3D art, sound and music, game design, and game scripting, and work in small interdisciplinary teams to create interactive projects using a variety of industry-standard tools such as Unity.
Faculty: MJ Johns
Unique Number: 21888
Design and build interactive 2D or 3D game levels (game maps) using an industry standard tool such as Unity or Unreal. Students will also learn the design pipeline for creating levels from concept and layout, to whitebooxing, creating and integrating environment art and sound, worldbuilding, and adding simple scripted interactions, animations, sound effects, and VFX. This course also touches on the different design process for small indie games compared to big AAA games and you will have the opportunity to design a level for an existing game as well as for your own game ideas.
Faculty: TBD
Unique Number: 21895
Discover how games do the things they do through this intro to game scripting. Learn how to program games using C# with Unity 3D, one of the game industry standards. Topics include character movement, environmental systems, AI, procedural generation, UI, and more.
Faculty: MJ Johns
Unique Number: 21900
Learn to design and create a user flow for a digital experience and conduct user research and user testing, make wireframes for user interface layouts, design and create UI art and animations for buttons, fonts, and icons, make mock-ups and prototypes in Figma, and integrate UI art and sound effects to create a fully interactive and animated interface in Unity (and others!)
Faculty: Bill Byrne
Unique Number: 21904
Hands-on programming and design methods will be utilized as students will develop their own presentations of generative art from music and sound.
Faculty: Kyle Chittenden
Unique Number: 21921
In this course, students will learn the process of creating 3D gameplay animations, techniques to improve their animation workflow, and how to implement their animations into Unreal Engine.
Faculty: Paula Rogers
Unique Number: 21922
An overview of narrative principles with an emphasis on analysis, including film, television, short stories, and interactive stories. Class will not involve creative projects, but instead will focus on discussion and critical analysis of given works.
Faculty: Karen Maness
Unique Number: 21925
Faculty: Kyle Evans
Unique Number: 21909
Take your immersive art ideas into the wild! In Immersive Pop-Ups, students will create renegade public projection art and guerrilla-style sound installations around campus. Topics include on-the-fly projection mapping, real-time video effects, and multi-channel audio production.
Faculty: TBD
Unique Number: 21917
Faculty: Jessie Contour
Unique Number: 21923
In this course students will work in teams to plan, design, develop, and fabricate custom arcade games and their accompanying cabinets. Students may be responsible for game design and development, custom controls with knobs and/or joysticks (or other inputs), or the fabrication of the cabinet including use of laser cutting/CNC of wood, designing/printing/mounting custom vinyl designs, and assembly. Students will produce two polished projects with accompanying documentation to be installed and exhibited in the AET Arcade.
Faculty: Neal Daugherty
Unique Number: 21924
This project-based class provides fundamental motion and animation foundations with targeted instruction for creatives wanting to expand their research into digital motion, animation techniques, motion graphics, and other temporal processes. This course will examine the technical and conceptual aspects of motion and animation using pen and pencil drawings, video/film capture, digital drawing, and industry level graphic art software. Topics include: frame, cut-out, paper-craft animation(s), basic sound editing, storyboarding, and presentation strategies.
Faculty: Deepak Chetty
Unique Number: 21928
This class dives into Unreal Engine to create linear cinematic media. We will also focus on learning hardware such as Facial Performance Capture (LiveLink + MetaHumans) and Body Performance Capture systems using industry standard systems (VICON) and workflows in the RTF lab. Students will experiment with tracked cameras for In-Camera VFX (a green-screen version of The Mandalorian tech) and live, Virtual Cinematography. The end result of the course is using real-time rendering to create a short film inside of Unreal Engine.
Faculty: Mk Haley
Unique Number: 21927
Understanding best practices behind the design of themed entertainment experiences through a variety of lectures, group projects, and individual study. Topics covered include: Placemaking, Spectacles, Brainstorming, Interactive & Immersive Theater, Collaboration, Story, and Re-Imagining the Museum Experience.
Faculty: TBD
Unique Number: 21911
Portfolio Development will focus on creating projects and case studies for your portfolio. Whether you want to redesign an existing project, refine and create a case study for a project nearing completion, or even create a project from scratch, this semester-long course will help you accomplish that.
Faculty: Natasha Davison
Unique Number: 21903
Course explores the fundamentals of producing entertainment from inspiration to execution as well as all aspects involved in producing live stage and on screen commercial productions.
Faculty: Mk Haley
Unique Number: 21912
Students will explore real-world design challenges in a world where safety and social distancing have tightened up our interactions and technology has expanded it.
Faculty: Tyler Coleman
Unique Number: 21913
In Mobile Games Design, we'll discuss the history & trends of the mobile game space while also working on projects we will try to release on the Google Play Store during the semester.
Faculty: Tyler Coleman
Unique Number: 21914
An introduction to game systems in a myriad of structures used commonly today. Create and apply play systems which establish the framework for user experience and content design.
Faculty: Jose Kozan
Unique Number: 21916
An introduction to augmented reality platforms and hands-on development of social media AR for Instagram and Snapchat, and AR experiences delivered via the web (WebAR). Students will explore creative AR interactions with 3D models, animated characters, sound assets, and visual effects, to promote learning opportunities and branded marketing.
Faculty: Kyle Chittenden
Unique Number: 21918
This course is focused on creating game-ready 3D animation assets in Maya with an emphasis on characters, props, cameras, and creatures.
Faculty: Yuliya Lanina
Unique Number: 21919
An introduction to the drawing techniques and methods used in the field of design.
Faculty: Mk Haley
Unique Number: 21926
An exploration of immersive interactive storytelling through the medium of putt-putt. A combination of best practices, history, general themed entertainment principles, some simulation of the possibilities, and some practical builds if working together is feasible in the Fall semester.
Faculty: Yuliya Lanina
Unique Number: 21929
Create real content for a real client! This experience is meant to build on your acquired knowledge and skills to facilitate the creation of a collaborative visual project for the large-scale LED Media Wall within the Gensler Austin lobby. Students will work in small teams with Gensler’s Digital Experience Design studio to create compelling visual content suitable for their lobby. Junior and Senior Level only
Faculty: Sam Lipman
Unique Number: 21935
The producer's guide to harmony, chord progressions, and song structure in the MIDI grid.
Faculty: Matt Smith
Unique Number: 21945
This course examines a variety of design elements controlled over live entertainment networks, including hardware and software components and how they communicate with one another to execute a variety of designs. Students will learn how to utilize the Hog4 console in both the traditional and nontraditional workflows and have hands-on training with lighting fixtures from High End Systems, as well as a variety of projection playback software and hardware. This course will combine programming techniques, technical research, and design process.
Faculty: David Cohen, Paula Rogers, Jessie Contour, & Jose Kozan
Unique Number: 21965, 21969
This experience is meant to build on your acquired knowledge and skills and facilitate creation of a collaborative team project that would serve as a calling card to future employers or graduate schools.
Faculty: Paul Toprac
Unique Number: 21975
The culminating experience of the University of Texas at Austin’s Game Development and Design Program is the Capstone Course. This course brings together students from different disciplines who work together in small teams of 5-8 to develop 2D and 3D games. The class reflects the realities of the industry: people with diverse talents collaborating together to meet a deadline.
Faculty: N/A
Unique Number: 21981