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Opposition leaders and other groups have shown skepticism about the validity of Khodorkovsky's sentence. In December the Russia Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights under President Dmitry Medvedev called for the prosecutor general to petition to annul the conviction [JURIST report]. Describing the verdict as fictitious, council member and former Constitutional Court judge, Tamara Morshchakova, noted the council found neither evidence nor substance to the charges brought against Khodorkovsky in the second trial. The council's decisions are non-binding and have seldom elicited action from Russian authorities. In July, the council urged amnesty for economic crimes in a meeting with Medvedev that would include amnesty for the crimes of Khodorkovsky. Last year former Russian prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov testified [JURIST report] that former president and current prime minister Vladimir Putin ordered Khodorkovsky's arrest for political reasons, indicating that Khodorkovsky had funded the Communist Party without first getting approval to do so from the president.
The evidence available to my Office was sufficient to commence those proceedings on the basis that Mr Hicks stood to benefit financially from the commercial exploitation of his notoriety resulting from the commission of a foreign indictable offense. ... Following commencement of the proceedings, Mr Hicks challenged the admissibility of the documents [recording his admissions to the US Military Commission], based upon the conditions and circumstances in which he made the relevant admissions. The challenge also relied upon the fact that Mr Hicks entered what is known in the [US] as an "Alford plea". This is a type of plea not recognised in Australia, whereby a defendant is able to acknowledge that the available evidence is sufficient to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt, without admitting commission of the offences charged.
In August 2011 the New South Wales Supreme Court [official website] froze all assets [Sydney Morning Herald report] arising out of the sale of Hicks's book. That same month Hicks filed an appeal [JURIST report] with the UN Human Rights Committee [official website] complaining of multiple violations of international law stemming from his five-year incarceration at Guantanamo from 2002 to 2007. In his petition Hicks asked the Australian government to "request the US authorities to formally overturn" his 2007 conviction on charges of aiding terrorism before a US military court and nullify the plea deal [JURIST reports] from which the conviction arose. Australian authorities removed the final restrictions against Hicks [JURIST report] in December 2008. Following his guilty plea Hicks was transferred to Australia in May 2007 to serve the remainder of his nine-month prison sentence at a maximum security prison near his hometown of Adelaide, South Australia, and was released [JURIST reports] in December 2007. The control order was relaxed [JURIST report] in February 2008, permitting Hicks to live anywhere in the country, and requiring him to check in with police only twice a week.
The decision by the appeals court came in the wake of coordinated attacks in 13 cities that killed at least 103 people while injuring around 200. The attacks are alleged to be initiated by the al-Qaeda [JURIST news archive] to send out a message that it is still strong. The attacks are considered [AP report] the deadliest in two years. In December al-Hashemi stated that he is not going to return to Baghdad [JURIST report] to stand trial on charges of inciting violence in the country. The statement came a week after an arrest warrant was issued [Reuters report] against him by Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki [official website, in Arabic].
Romanian interim president Crin Antonescu [personal website, in Romanian] last week signed a law reinstating the 50 percent turnout threshold [JURIST report]. A week earlier European Commission (EC) President Jose Manuel Barroso [official website] summoned Ponta to Brussels to discuss concerns over some of the prime minister's policies, urging Ponta to respect the full independence of the Romanian judiciary and expressing the EC's desire that Romania maintain a democratic system of checks and balances. Earlier this month the Constitutional Court accused Ponta of overstepping his authority [JURIST report] by attempting to seize control over the judiciary system. Ponta also ignored a decision by the court finding Basescu should be the representative of the country at the European Council meeting in Brussels. In 2009 the Constitutional Court declared incumbent President Basescu winner of the country's disputed presidential election [JURIST report]. Basescu has been president of Romania since 2004.
The informed consent law was originally passed [JURIST report] in 2005 but has faced years of court challenges and appeals. The decision of the three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit last year upheld most of the law, including a provision that requires doctors to tell patients prior to an abortion "that [she] has an existing relationship with that unborn human being and that the relationship enjoys protection under the United States Constitution and under the laws of South Dakota" and that "by having an abortion, her existing relationship and her existing constitutional rights with regards to that relationship will be terminated." A judge for the US District Court for the District of South Dakota last month upheld an injunction [JURIST report] against a different South Dakota abortion law, but allowed one section, requiring doctors to certify that a woman has not been "coerced" into making her decision, to go into effect. The most controversial parts of the law, including a provision requiring a 72-hour waiting period before obtaining the procedure, remain blocked. Last Year, the Planned Parenthood Federation of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota and the American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota succeeded in obtaining a preliminary injunction against the law [JURIST report]. The law was passed [JURIST report] in March 2011.
The attack, which was clearly ethnically motivated, underscores the urgent need to combat impunity for past violations in Cote d'Ivoire. At the height of the post-electoral crisis in March last year, two massacres took place in the Duekoue-Guiglo area. One reportedly resulted in the deaths of around 100 members of the Dioula ethnic community and, in another, approximately 244 mostly male members of the Guere ethnic group were found to have been killed during the capture of Duekoue on 28 March 2011 by the Forces Republicaines de Cote d'Ivoire (FRCI). It appears that the attack on the IDP camp in Nahibly was targeted at members of the Guere community, which is being blamed by the Dioula community for an armed robbery earlier in the day on Friday during which five Malinke (a sub-group of the Dioula people) were killed. More than a year after the March 2011 Duekoue ethnic violence, little progress has been made in advancing justice and accountability. While more than 176 members of the pro-Gbabgo camp, aligned with former President Laurent Gbagbo, have been indicted for violations committed during the post-electoral crisis, we understand that no arrests have been made of supporters of current President Alassane Ouattara in relation to these crimes.
The continuing violence in the Ivory Coast has been the subject of criticism by international human rights groups. Earlier this month, the country's justice ministry announced [JURIST report] that two allies of former president Laurent Gbagbo [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] have been charged with genocide relating to the violence that followed Gbagbo's refusal to step down after his defeat in the November 2010 elections. Gbagbo was captured and forced to surrender [JURIST report] in April of last year after French tanks moved in on his residence while Outtara's forces surrounded it. The confirmation of charges hearing against him was postponed in mid-June by the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] amid a request by his lawyers for more time. A week earlier, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] reported [JURIST report] that since July 2011 at least 40 people including women and children have been killed during cross-border attacks on Ivory Coast villages by armed militants in Liberia [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. In February, HRW expressed concern [JURIST report] over the flawed investigation into the post-election violence and advocated six-month extension of the probe. Another concern was that all 17 members of the investigating commission were chosen by President Ouattara creating possibility of bias in the investigation. During the same month, ICC's former Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] was granted permission [JURIST report] to expand his investigation of war crimes in the Ivory Coast to incidents dating back to 2002.
Somalia has been urged by the international community to ensure that the country's transition proceeds peacefully. Last month UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told officials at the Istanbul II Conference on Somalia that Somalia must make all efforts to smoothly transition to a permanent government [JURIST report] with a new constitution. Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) [CFR backgrounder] has been working toward establishment of a legitimate government since the 1991 end of the Muhammad Siad Barre [Britannica profile] dictatorship. In May UN representatives announced [JURIST report] that the Elders of Somalia were planning to select delegates for the NCA. Earlier that month a UN expert called on Somalia [JURIST report] to address issues with the judicial systems in Mogadishu and South Central Somalia after finding in Somalia's application of Sharia law and modern international and human rights law. In February Human Rights Watch criticized [JURIST report] the country's TFG for failing to prevent children recruitment into armed forces.
This week Terrica Ganzy [official profile], Staff Attorney for the Southern Center for Human Rights [advocacy website], argued that Warren Hill was improperly sentenced to death [JURIST comment] and that Georgia should adopt a "preponderance of evidence" standard for mentally disabled claims in capital offense cases. Last week after the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Hill's petition for clemency [JURIST report] the DOC delayed his execution for several days in order to make the changes to its lethal injection protocol. Also last week UN Special Rapporteur on arbitrary executions Christof Heyns [official website] urged the US not to execute [JURIST report] Hill. The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled in Atkins v. Virginia [opinion; Cornell LII backgrounder] that the execution of mentally retarded individuals is cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth Amendment [text]. However, in 29 states, including Texas, Tennessee and New Jersey [JURIST reports], the defendant still carries the burden of proving mental retardation in death-penalty [JURIST news archive] cases to receive a lesser sentence. Guest columnist Olga Vlasova argues [JURIST op-ed] that the Supreme Court should prohibit the death penalty for severely mentally ill offenders.
The US government has struggled to deal with the release of confidential files on Wikileaks. Army Col. Denise Lind last month ordered [JURIST report] the prosecution in the case against Pfc. Bradley Manning [advocacy website; JURIST news archive] to submit to her a number of files that were allegedly withheld from the defense during discovery. Manning is accused of transferring more than 700,000 confidential documents and video clips to Wikileaks, the largest intelligence leak is US history. Manning's defense has argued the leaks did not hurt US national security, but the US Army has responded that Manning's actions indirectly aided al Qaeda. Manning was formally charged [JURIST report] in February with 22 counts, including aiding the enemy, under the Espionage Act [text]. In April 2011 WikiLeaks began publishing the Guantanamo Files [JURIST report], a collection of more than 700 classified documents relating to the evidence and treatment of almost all detainees held at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] between 2002 and 2008. In December 2010, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay criticized [JURIST report] actions by governments and corporations worldwide to cut off funding to WikiLeaks, saying it could violate the website's rights to free expression.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania [advocacy website] challenged the law [petition for review, PDF; JURIST report] in May, asking a court to block enforcement of the law in the upcoming November elections. The group claims that the new law violates the Pennsylvania Constitution [text] and will prevent eligible voters from casting their votes. Corbett signed the bill into law [JURIST report] in March. It was passed earlier that week in the House of Representatives by a vote of 104-88. Supporters of the proposed legislation said that it will combat voter fraud. Unlike the current trend of voter ID laws, Pennsylvania's allows voters to vote without an ID as long as they verify their identity within six days of voting. Absentee ballots will also only require identification by Social Security number. There are now 32 US states [NCSL backgrounder] that require voters to present some form of ID at the polls, but the issue remains controversial.
Apple and Samsung have been embroiled in continuous patent litigation around the world. On Monday, an Australian federal court began hearing [JURIST report] two patent infringement cases brought by Apple and Samsung Electronics that are anticipated to last for the next three months. Earlier this month, a UK court ruled [JURIST report] in favor of Samsung in a design infringement case brought by Apple alleging that three of Samsung's tablets infringed upon Apple's registered design patents while Samsung denied infringement. On the other hand, a judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] issued an injunction [JURIST report] against Samsung to stop the sale of its Galaxy Nexus smartphone in the US. Judge Lucy Koh held that Apple is likely to succeed on the merits in the litigation and would likely suffer irreparable harm if Samsung's sale of its smartphone is not stopped immediately. A week earlier, Koh had granted [JURIST report] an injunction against Samsung blocking the sale of its Galaxy 10.1 tablet computer while the patent infringement case is reviewed. Apple filed suit [JURIST report] against Samsung in April of last year alleging that Samsung committed 10 patent infringements, two trademark violations and two trade dress violations by copying iPhone and iPad technology in making its "Galaxy" products. In June, the District Court of The Hague ruled [JURIST report] in favor of Samsung against Apple holding that Apple was liable for infringing upon one of the Korean company's four patents, a 3G patent. In March Samsung filed suit [JURIST report] against Apple in the Seoul Central District Court in South Korea alleging Apple had infringed three of its utility patents.
Earlier this month UN Chief Military Observer in Syria Major-General Robert Mood stated that he believed Syrian authorities were committed to implementing the peace agreement [JURIST report] that was reached earlier this month. Mood, who works with the UNSMIS, confirmed that the UN would continue to provide humanitarian support as the violence subsides. In June the UNSMIS concluded in a report that Syrian forces "may have been responsible" for the killing of more than 100 civilians [JURIST reports] in Al-Houla in May. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad [BBC backgrounder], however, said earlier that month that the government had nothing to do with the attacks [JURIST report]. In April, the UN Syria mission agreed to send up to 300 unarmed military observers and other humanitarian aid to supervise the implementation of a peace plan after Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report stating that Syrian security forces had killed more than 100 civilians [JURIST reports] and opposition fighters in recent attacks. In March, HRW also reported on and linked to videos of forces rounding up civilians for use as human shields [JURiST report], including women and children, forcing them to walk in front of soldiers and tanks during troops movements and attacks so that opposition fighters would not shoot at them.
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Drawing Fantastic: The Creative Figure
DGMD 230 2 credits
Los Angeles' top models are presented in dynamic poses. The sessions are theme oriented with an emphasis on story and action
Drawing the Fantastic for Films and Video
DGMD231 2 credits
While continuing with traditional life drawing exercises, students progress to drawing the fantastic, such as monsters, aliens, dinosaurs, and imagery from traditional Hollywood genres. Students draw under a range of dramatic lighting conditions. Reviews of animation from around the world are incorporated. This course may also be taken as an elective.
Digital Media Imaging/Painting
DGMD240 2 credits
This course extends students' skills with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Students investigate the functions of these applications and become expert in their uses.
Perspectives in Stories, Technologies & Design
DGMD250 2 credits
Lectures explore all aspects of design, technology, and the nature of the industries utilizing digital media, as well as an introduction to the occupations involved in these fields.
Studio Visits
DGMD260 2 credits
Students research and visit various video game developers, special effects houses, post-production facilities, film and TV Studios, independent design houses, and freelancers, as an exposure to the positions available in the industry and the different cultures of these companies.
Basic 3D for Storytellers
DGMD270 2 credits
Introduces students to 3D animation. Students begin to learn about space and the principles of animation. They then proceed to 3D computer animation, with special emphasis on its use to communicate stories for film, television, and video games.
Animation Topics
DGMD310 2 credits
Topics courses are designed to take advantage of the specific areas of expertise offered by guest faculty. This is a special topics course that addresses issues in animation. See department for offerings each semester.
Concept Art for Video Games and Films
DGMD310 2 credits
Students create everything from monsters to little girls and puppies. Concept development for video games and films includes designing characters and the settings, and creating the back-story for each. Students investigate and develop character motivation, set and equipment purposes, and their histories to create an understanding of these components.
Concept Art Environments & Props & Vehicles
DGMD310 2 credits
Learn how to create the concepts for the different elements that go into building a game.
Digital Sculpting in Zbrush
DGMD310 2 credits
Learn digital sculpting and painting in Zbrush. You will learn some of the techniques used to create next generation game and movie characters. Create architectural along with organic models with millions of polygons.
Painting-Old School for the New School
DGMD310 2 credits
Working from a live model with traditional materials and techniques, this class will strengthen one's knowledge and mode of expression with color and light. Students will learn how to balance large shapes of color against one another to define an image's overall tone, structure and composition.
Concept Art Environmental Painting
DGMD310 2 credits
This is a digital painting class focusing on Environments.
Visual Development for Animation
DGMD310 2 credits
Introduction to visual development using the traditional animation production styles of classic animated shorts and feature films. Students will develop strong storytelling skills through their character designs and environments with an emphasis on lighting, composition and mood. Both traditional technique and computer 2D painting technique will be used.
3D for Motion – Cinema 4D
DGMD310 2 credits
Learn how to use Cinema 4D to create elements and 3D animation for motion graphics, ranging from 3D treatments and backgrounds to looping elements Includes an introduction to C4D's procedural animation system. Modeling, materials and shader development, lighting and multi pass rendering for compositing with After Effects will be addressed.
Narrative Topics
DGMD311 2 credits
Topics courses are designed to take advantage of the specific areas of expertise offered by guest faculty. This is a special topics course that addresses issues in narration. See department for offerings each semester.
Comic Books
DGMD311 2 credits
Provides an introduction to the comics as a story telling medium. Students learn to develop and execute their own ideas using comics. The industry's history and future are explored. Emphasis is placed on writing, drawing, and presentation. Both traditional skills and digital skills are required.
Drawing and Painting Topics
DGMD312 2 credits
Topics courses are designed to take advantage of the specific areas of expertise offered by guest faculty. This is a special topics course that addresses issues in drawing and painting. See department for offerings each semester.
Dynamic Painting Concepts
DGMD312 2 credits
What is digital painting without the PAINTING? Course covers painting basics from an advanced perspective. Learn strong value and color control within the scheme of everything else you have learned so far. You will break down the logic of light and material and learn how to communicate your concepts visually.
Drawing & Painting Vehicles
DGMD312 2 credits
Explore digital painting and sketching as well as vehicle design. Students will be using the Cintiq lab for this class.
Earth, Wind and Fire
DGMD312 2 credits
Students examine, analyze and use different art media to capture a vast array of landscapes: mountains, desert, forest, ocean, city, and the fantastic. In addition, they cover the effects of weather: rain, clouds, changing sunlight, etc. and unique natural and geologic phenomena, such as volcanoes, meteors, and tornadoes.
The Figure: Expression/Impressions and Movement
DGMD312 2 credits
A creative exploration in drawing and painting the figure in various media. The class examines quick sketch, figure invention, facial expression, manipulation of facial structure to display various emotions and speech patterns, drapery and costume, long and short poses, portraiture, light logic, mood, and narrative.
Visual Effects: The Next Step
DGMD313 2 credits
Explores visual effects (those done in the computer) and special effects (physical effects) and how to combine them. Students investigate digital mattes, models, lighting (in both the virtual and the physical worlds), and the interface between physical and visual effects through compositing.
Film and Video Topics
DGMD315 2 credits
Topics courses are designed to take advantage of the specific areas of expertise offered by guest faculty. This is a special topics course that addresses issues in film and video. See department for offerings each semester.
Film and Video Lab for Digital Artists
DGMD315 2 credits
Students learn the skills that are required for making films and videos. They create concepts, storyboard them, set up a shoot, and then, in teams, shoot a number of projects. Students learn to log, capture, and edit their footage, and then to layoff to tape for presentation.
Directing for Film and Video
DGMD315 2 credits
This course covers the skills needed to direct live- action, computer-generated, or combination films. Students gain experience in directing people and scenes.
Editing Films and Video
DGMD315 2 credits
Students learn to edit from a feature film editor. The techniques learned here may be applied to feature films, documentaries, visual effects, and computer animated films.
History and Techniques of VFX
DGMD315 2 credits
Explore the history of visual and special effects in Hollywood films. View and discuss movies that demonstrated technological innovations in effects, and their impact on the motion picture industry. Both digital and analog effects are explored. Film as art, art as communication, and effects vs. story line are discussed.
Advanced Tools Workshop
DGMD315 2 credits
These workshops are intended for students with at least 2 semesters experience with the applicable digital tools. They extend students' technical and creative skills with the tool chosen each semester. Maya and After Effects are some of the tools offered in these workshops.
Broadcast Design Topics
DGMD316 2 credits
Topics courses are designed to take advantage of the specific areas of expertise offered by guest faculty. This is a special topics course that addresses issues in broadcast design. See department for offerings each semester.
Advanced Type Design for Motion Graphics
DGMD316 2 credits
There are many opportunities and constraints in the world of motion. Type must be designed to work well in this specific environment. Students learn how to be creative and professional with their type designs as applied to motion graphics.
Broadcast Design Lab
DGMD316 2 credits
A workshop in broadcast design taught by a professional from the field. Students apply the skills they have learned to broadcast design projects. Timing, emotions, and client relations, are among the topics presented in this lab class.
Design Concepts
DGMD316 2 credits
This vital class for motion graphics designers covers concepts of design for still and motion work.
Advanced Broadcast Design
DGMD316 2 credits
This class mimics the production environments common to this field. Students produce many quality concepts, animatics, revisions, and finished projects for a number of different types of projects. Industry leaders participate and guide the process.
Audio Topics
DGMD317 2 credits
Topics are designed to take advantage of the specific areas of expertise offered by guest faculty. This special topics course addresses issues in sound production. See department for offerings each semester.
Game Design Topics
DGMD318 2 credits
Topics courses are designed to take advantage of the specific areas of expertise offered by guest faculty. This is a special topics course that addresses issues in game design. See department for offerings each semester.
Game Design Overview
DGMD318 2 credits
Explore what you need to know about designing games. Learn about the various jobs, what skills you need, and what the different skills are that are common to all game artists and unique to each position.
Game Industry: Production and Leadership
DGMD318 2 credits
Students investigate the features of video games that make them successful in the marketplace. Students discuss these issues and explore attributes of leadership in the game industry.
Game Development: Game Level Design
DGMD318 2 credits
Using mod and emulators students create new levels for existing popular games. Students learn by doing.
Game Animation
DGMD318 2 credits
Video game animation has very strict requirements. Students learn to mix creativity with observations from life, as they meet the hardware restrictions of current game platforms, while they rig and animate their characters.
Game Animation: Advanced
DGMD318 2 credits
Students familiar with the basics of game animation and rigging apply their knowledge to advanced projects.
Game Modeling
DGMD318 2 credits
Game companies want to see what designers can do when they model people, vehicles, weapons, and other objects. Of particular importance for modelers is the ability to create a model of an easily recognizable public figure.
Environments in 3D
DGMD318 2 credits
Focuses on digital sets and environments (i.e., architecture). By the end of the semester, each student will have created images of a carefully designed, meticulously lit and textured environment. Topics include: A survey of Renaissance and Baroque to Modern Architecture, Architectural design principals, efficient modeling techniques, and lighting.
3D Modeling and Animation
DGMD320 3 credits
Having learned the basics, students now explore methods that give life to the models they create or adapt from the College's extensive library. Animators and modelers learn about the uses and constraints applicable to 3D in films, television, and video games.
3D for Motion Graphics
DGMD323 2 credits
Students create 3D elements for motion graphics projects. "Flying logos" are one type of animation, but this course also explores other forms of 3D animation that enhance designs and contribute to students' value in the marketplace.
Advanced 3D Animation: Character Animation
DGMD325 3 credits
Bringing a character to life implies more than simply making an object move. Expression, gesture, appearance, and reaction/response are all determined by personality and psychology. This course examines the traditional skills 2D animators have long used to create life-like characters, and reveals the computer-generated techniques that are available today.
Robots, Props and Environments
DGMD329 2 credits
Robots, landscapes, rooms, castles and other environments are explored, along with the everyday and fantastic things that make up an invented world. Students create props, environments, and robots, with the feature film, television, and video games in mind. Reviews of feature films from Hollywood and around the world are incorporated.
Storytelling in 30 Seconds
DGMD333 2 credits
Students study the elements of good narrative. Stories from 30 seconds to 120 minutes in length share the same basic structure. In this class students learn the elements that contribute to a successfully engaging story. This knowledge is applicable to a great many areas of their study.
Drawing Animals for Films, TV and Games
DGMD337 2 credits
Animal drawing exercises are practiced with the entertainment industry in mind. Students take many field trips to the zoo and other animal habitats. Open to all majors.
Type and Design Fundamentals
DGMD340 2 credits
Students learn to use typography effectively as a design element and how to control the details of its use, both hallmarks of good designers. Design principles learned in the foundation year are reviewed as knowledge and experience in this area is extended.
Digital Matte Painting
DGMD343 2 credits
Through exploring and understanding its history, starting with the mail car scene from The Great Train Robbery, through the films of the '40s and '50s, and winding up with contemporary filmmaking, students address the intricacies of matte painting. Exercises are done in practical and digital matte painting.
Drawing for Feature Films
DGMD345 2 credits
Traditional life drawing exercises, plus landscapes and other types of drawing, are practiced with the feature film in mind. Reviews of feature films from Hollywood and around the world are incorporated. Open to all majors.
Advanced Motion Graphics Tools and Techniques Workshop
DGMD346 2 credits
Assists students to extend their expertise in the program, After Effects. Students explore various third-party plug-ins and the capabilities of the AE Production Bundle. Students must have worked with After Effects for 2 semesters or have equivalent experience in order to take this class.
Storyboarding for Features, TV and Games
DGMD348 2 credits
Storyboarding is practiced as a tool for planning and making informed changes in digital work
for film, games, and television. Students learn the basics of storyboarding and its importance as a tool of visualization. Students create characters, settings, and sequences to communicate clearly the vision of their projects.
Basic Game Design I
DGMD349 2 credits
Students investigate concept development for game design. This course explores the development and production of video games for the industry. The course includes discussions with an industry leader. Students research currently available game titles and discuss their features to identify their successful qualities.
Digital Design Principles
DGMD352 2 credits
This course focuses on basic design principles that are useful in everything from filmmaking to motion graphics to web design. Students learn the rules of design; then they learn how to break them.
Motion Graphics for the Web
DGMD355 2 credits
The internet demands a different approach to design than print or broadcast design. Design for the web must take into account, not only the medium, but also goals, content, and intended audience. Students will learn to bring life to the web through a variety of tools, and their own creativity.
Basic Game Design II
DGMD359 2 credits
Students continue to explore concept development for game design. This course focuses on the development and production of video games for the industry. The course includes discussions with an industry leader.
Real and Computer Generated Lighting
DGMD360 2 credits
This course covers the basics of lighting in a classroom environment, and then extends that information to the computer lighting of virtual sets, props and characters.
Digital Still Photography
DGMD361 2 credits
Photography assists students with improving their videography, digital compositions, and films. This course addresses the elements of good photography as applied to digital photography. Using both "prosumer" and professional cameras, students learn to use all the manual features of these new cameras to achieve a variety of looks and effects.
Sculpture for Digital Artists
DGMD367 2 credits
Students work with clay to understand the 3D form as it applies to digital models, character design, and props. They create maquettes, hand-crafted 3D models that animators reference. Maquettes, along with model sheets, bring consistency to the production of an animated character when produced by different animators.
Advanced Sculpture for Digital Artists
DGMD368 2 credits
Students work with clay to understand the 3D form as it applies to computer-generated models, character design, and props. This is the next step for those who have completed the beginning course or who have equivalent experience.
Prerequisite: DGMD367 Sculpture for Digital Artists or equivalent experience
Acting for Storytellers
DGMD373 2 credits
Sony Imageworks, ILM, and many other large and small production houses use "Acting for Storytellers" classes to enhance their animating skills. In this course, students learn to portray movement and emotion in animated characters through the method of acting out scenes.
Broadcast Design
DGMD380 2 credits
Explores the fundamentals of theory and strategy behind broadcast design. Students learn the characteristics of award-winning pieces that are progressive in design but strategic in implementation. Aspects of branding and client communications are included.
Broadcast Design Rapid Projects
DGMD380 2 credits
This fast-paced environment will help you get out of the habit of cherishing each idea and into the habit of coming up with an idea, refining it, producing it and moving on to new projects.
Storyboarding for Motion
DGMD380 2 credits
In this class we will develop the process of storyboarding for motion. This class will address story arch, concept, composition, board flow, overall technique, and more. Also we will be developing the designer's voice and vision.
Honors Class
DGMD399 2 or 3 credits
For outstanding students who wish to explore their own projects in greater detail. This multidisciplinary class will see a wide range of projects and gain much from class critiques of their work as it progresses.
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Sonic Liberation Front: Ashé A Go-Go (2005)
The group opened the set at Satalla with the album's title track, written by percussionist Kevin Diehl, which features a melody for unison horns reminiscent of Coleman's "Lonely Woman. Heard live, the rhythmic interplay of the three batá drumsthe okonkolo, itotele and iya, or "mother was even more hypnotic than on record, and over this trumpeter Kimbal Brown delivered a burning, bop-influenced trumpet solo. Before the end of the tune, vocalist Venissa Santi led a call-and-response of traditional Yoruban lyrics with the rest of the ensemble.
"The Sirens, written by alto saxophonist Adam Jenkins, is in its horn arrangements a direct descendant of Wayne Shorter's "Footprints. The insistent repetition of the bass and percussion patterns creates a slow, loping groove, against which the saxophones take heated solos.
By the time "Agua Dulce rolls around, both in concert and on record, the tune is an oasis of simplicity and harmony. Chuckie Joseph plays a basic, repetitive three-chord progression on guitar and sings heartfelt Yoruban lyrics. In concert, "Agua Dulce was made even sweeter by the addition of Santi harmonizing above Joseph.
Closing out the album is a rumba written by Diehl titled "Gema Oculta. It was the closer at Satalla too, for which the group was joined by John Benthal and Kevin Kuhn on guitars. The duo opened for Sonic Liberation Front earlier in the evening with lively compositions and arrangements featuring uncommon instruments like the mandocello and Cuban tres guitar.
Track Listing: 1. Ashé A Go-Go;
2. Pow!;
3. The Sirens;
4. Init;
5. Agua Dulce;
6. Sieze the Time;
7. Gema Oculta.
Personnel: Kevin Diehl - itotele, electronics, drumkit, chekere, chawaro, clave, palitos; Chuckie Joseph - iya, vocals, guitar, congas, bell, okonkolo, itotele, quinto; Julio Berrios - okonkolo, congas; Andy Gonzalez - bass; Terry Lawson - tenor saxophone; Dan Scofield - alto saxophone; Adam Jenkins - alto saxophone; Kimbal Brown - trumpet; Madison Rast - bass; Venissa Santi - chorus; Fabunmi - chorus.
Record Label: High Two Recordings
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Is this a way to prevent atheist from graduating? I don't know the purpose of this bill, but it's pretty stupid to even want to add this. "BEGINNING IN THE 2013‑2014 SCHOOL YEAR, IN ADDITION TO FULFILLING THE COURSE OF STUDY AND ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS PRESCRIBED IN THIS CHAPTER, BEFORE A PUPIL IS ALLOWED TO GRADUATE FROM A PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL IN THIS STATE, THE PRINCIPAL OR HEAD TEACHER OF THE SCHOOL SHALL VERIFY IN WRITING THAT THE PUPIL HAS RECITED THE FOLLOWING OATH: I, _________, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE SAME; THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY, WITHOUT ANY MENTAL RESERVATION OR PURPOSE OF EVASION; AND THAT I WILL WELL AND FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE THESE DUTIES; SO HELP ME GOD. " It maybe just an oath recital, but wtf.
Unfortunately, this isn't as crazy as it sounds. Well, let me be clear--it's so, so, so dumb. And it shouldn't be allowed. But it's not as out-of-nowhere, Republicans-making-up-crazy-stuff-in-Arizona as usual. Federal employees and employees of many state governments have to take the exact same oath. It doesn't make it right--I think that swearing that oath for federal employment probably violates the free exercise clause--but it does make it somewhat more likely that the Arizona bill will pass. Basically, all they're doing is applying something that already exists as a requirement for federal employment to graduating from high school. People see things as being "tradition" and, for some reason, they think that means it doesn't violate the First Amendment. Federal courts no longer make people swear under oath "to God," the affirmation can be secular, but there are still a lot of customary things that need to catch up. But this is SO dumb. It MAKES SENSE to make federal employees swear an oath to uphold the Constitution. The God part is completely unnecessary (like being sworn as a witness, it should be secular). It doesn't even make sense to make high school students swear to uphold the Constitution--they're in school against their will, and them holding a high school diploma has absolutely nothing to do with the implementation of federal law.
I was aware that it was used for federal employees, but these are high school kids graduating from... SCHOOL. I still feel this is as crazy as it sounds. I just had a new idea for a controversial thread.
Meh. Bunch of cowboys on the downside of DNA. You expected more? Don't like Arizona, move to another state.
but i will gladly accept texas being cut loose if the government can provide me a better place to live, thanks. make it happen
... ouch. Syrilrian "It's raining frogs!" Member Since: Nov 13, 2011 Message Count: 5,849 Location: Arizona lol
Just, you know... move back to Colorado? Don't they have weed or something now anyway? On the subject of the oath: I'm sure it's nothing more than an oath, but it does point out a pretty hilarious hypocrisy... Isn't the separation of church and state in the constitution? I mean, I'm just saiyan.
In court you can leave out the so help me god part, HOPEFULLY it's the same in this situation. Sent from my DROID2 using Tapatalk 2
To be fair, I'm not exactly sure why an Atheist should get up in arms about having to say the word "God." If anything it's a chance to pretend you believe it and then secretly know you're smarter than those people.
Well the opposing argument is that if you swear on a god you don't believe in, you can't be trusted on telling the truth. Sent from my DROID2 using Tapatalk 2
That's really a very good point; I can see why people would feel unable to trust if you were caught lying about something that so many people hold so sacred. IE, if you'd lie about that, what else would or have or will you lie about? Comes under that old saw about "Once a liar, always a liar." Personally, I hope there's a clause for allowing the ability to abstain from the "god" part, but knowing Arizona... there's probably not. There was another place that did something similar recently.. Kentucky, maybe? If it DOES pass, it'll likely get contested in court at the very least; thankfully I have already graduated, and if I ever DO have kids, I do not intend to raise them here so on a personal level I am relatively unconcerned. On a broader level though, there is a very definite "wtf, arizona, come on..." feeling.
Well then the oath should swear on something else. It's not the end-user's fault that the ante sucks.
Hear how a Republican law maker in New Mexico forwarded the idea of making it a felony (tampering with evidence) if you got pregnant due to sexual assault and didn't carry to term?
Yes. And if it came to it, that's one that I'd fight tooth and nail, because it would effect many of us on a very, very deep and personal level. Man that one pissed me off....
pretty much this.... and again, although the word god is in there I think its a hell of a lot less of a religious issue and more of an issue of the oath is stupid and has no point. I don't know why atheists are so up in arms about having the word god in places... if you don't believe in it whats the point in arguing? when you speak it your just making an empty statement.... should be nbd.... Its the equivalent someone telling me I had to say "So help me John Stamos" at the end of an oath to graduate... I'd be like.. yeah well this is stupid, but I want to graduate so whatever I don't care.
The whole issue with "under God" is a side point in this I think. The point you should be focusing on is: why should high schoolers have to give some half-assed oath in the first place just to graduate?
the problem with arizona isnt that there are lots of crazy people. the problem is there are lots of old people
oh I know, I was just responding to Panda's first line about atheist kids... (he likes to be controversial so he drags religion and stuff into everything.. )
Lol... Panda is not just being controversial when he drags religion into this. It's actually not usually Atheists who freak out about "under God" being in oaths. It's usually people in other religions, who are deeply devout themselves, who feel as if they're being forced to swear an oath against their god. Or Jehovah's Witnesses, who feel it is against their religion to swear any oath at all. I think everyone agrees that the dumbest thing about this is that they are making high school graduates that cannot impact the execution of federal law swear an oath to the country. But that doesn't mean that it's not also potentially illegal to make public school students swear an oath to god in order to graduate. In fact, I'm sure it should be. You can't make kids say the pledge of allegiance, or the "under God" part of that, so I sure as hell don't see how you can make them swear a loyalty oath by penalty of God.
They'd just put 'em all in a room together and have them recite it together, then sign them, pass them up, etc.
I just realized something...shouldn't we be allowed to remove all the politicians in Washington over that oath? Its not like any of them follows it these days As for the idea of having high schoolers do the oath...they're graduating, not joining the military or taking political office. Its just stupid that they would have to take that oath unless it was necessary.
I take umbrage with this line, specifically because if the oath is requisite to receiving credit for coursework completed, then it can not truly be considered freely taken, without external pressure, influence or duress. I mean, this is essentially blackmail right? I've pointed out lots of stuff wrong with Arizona before, the MLK day debacle etc, place is messed up.
is it a requirement that you graduate though, isn't that a choice? what you're required to do is just go to school until youre 18 right
The "freely given" lines in oaths don't mean that taking the oath is something you are doing just for the hell of it. It just means that you MEAN what you're saying--i.e. no one is holding a gun to your head and making you take the oath, and there is no genuine truth behind the words. Yes, true, if it's a graduation requirement, that can be pretty similar to being forced at gunpoint, and there's no doubt that if this passes, the vast majority of 18 year olds are not going to MEAN what they're saying. But the point of it is the reverse. The point isn't to make sure you mean what you're saying--it's so that when someone breaks the oath, we can say they "freely took" the oath, and then broke it. The point is that, in the future, an oath-breaker can't say that they never meant what they said, because they affirmed that it was freely taken. Not defending it, just explaining it.
what if manti teo was a high schooler in arizona and his fake girlfriend died, wouldnt he be under duress and be unable to graduate
lol I'm pretty sure he can still freely give an oath even in crisis / mourning. God he is such a bad liar. Katie Couric was all "you cannot be serious" and he was like "yah i'm srs also farrrrr from gay" and she was like "wow you dumb" and then ESPN / Notre Dame / everyone with $$$$$$ interest in him was all "everyone believes him that he was hoaxed." And his poor boyfriend is now going on Dr. Phil to back up the lie, surely. Ugh.
http://www.katiecouric.com/features...from-manti-teos-girlfriend-a-katie-exclusive/ did you hear these CL? that guy plays a great girl
LOL yeah I listened at work when they came out before Katie's interview. Turns out that it was actually Ronnie's female cousin doing it. Yeah, they were too good. Still, if you want to believe it's all a lie, there's no proof that those voicemails were actually left while this was all happening, and wasn't just something that they've done since to cover it all up. I don't really have much of an opinion on it anymore, it's being talked about to death. There are just so many god damned crazy things about it, and too many people with a financial interest in this kid not looking like an idiot / douche that we will never actually know what happened, and wayyyy too many people with a career interest in avoiding the fact that they printed and discussed a story with absolutely no proof for months.
yeah and ive seen it on shows like entertainment tonight, all the hollywood paparazzi types eat stuff like that up since athletes are treated the same as movie celebrities. i think a lot of people just want to see him crash and burn, and want to be the outlet that got the truth to come out and ya, ESPN was one of the big ones promoting a story with no proof (gene whatever his name is) and now theyre one of the ones overhyping the current story
Deadspin did some actually good journalistic work to break this story. They're kind of beating it to death now, but they would be reporting on the minutiae of the story no matter whether they broke it or not. Best site on the internet.
ya they did well with the whole brett favres cock thing theres still lines they cant cross right? cant hack peoples phones and shit i assume


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A lot of critics are calling Emma Stone the new Lindsay Lohan and I totally get that. Like Lohan, she's a pretty, husky-voiced redhead with serious acting chops and a great sense of comic timing. But while Lohan always had a laid back quality to her work (and allow me to formally apologize for speaking of Lohan's acting career in the past tense—come back soon, Linds!), Stone is positively antic. She's a motormouthed ingénue with a Borscht-Belt-like tendency to make hurried sarcastic asides—and she's able to play both the sexy siren (as she did in Superbad and Zombieland) or the dweeby outcast (as she did in House Bunny and The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.) What's more, she's fearless as an actress—never afraid to look foolish (braces and acid washed jeans anyone?) or push the joke too far. She's her own very unique force of nature. Frankly, the Lohan comparisons are just lazy.
Easy A is the first film that allows Stone to show us all that she's got. She plays Olive Penderghast, a good kid who gets along almost too well with her neo-hippie parents (Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson). When she makes the classic teenage mistake—lying to her nosy best friend about losing her virginity—the high-school information-superhighway kicks in and suddenly, everyone knows. This is exacerbated when Olive does a favor for the tormented gay boy in school, pretending to have sex with him to get the jocks off his back. Now she's branded the school tramp. But instead of trying to clear her name, she embraces her new role, providing a similar pseudo de-virginizing service for many of the schools outcasts ("I fake rocked your world!" she tells one) and cheekily sporting a scarlet-letter A on her chest (they're conveniently reading The Scarlet Letter in English class).
In other words, we get to see Stone as the shy outcast, the rebel, the sex pot (in her Hester Prynne mode, she rocks what her father calls "upscale hooker" attire), the teen queen in pink fuzzy slippers (Olive narrates much of her story from web cam in her bedroom), and the traditional romantic lead (she has a real love interest, played by Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley.)
Much of Easy A plays as intended—it's lively and funny and hip, in the same mode as Clueless and, yes, Lohan's Mean Girls. But not everything works. Sometimes the irony is so thick, it becomes downright inscrutable. When we first meet Olive's English teacher (Thomas Haden-Church), he engages in a rapid-fire exchange with her that is supposed to show how smart and with-it he is. But until Olive's voiceover cites him as her favorite teacher, I thought he was being mocked as the grown-up who tries too hard to be "down" with the kids. Some of the laissez-faire-style parenting by Clarkson and Tucci is equally hard to gauge—are we supposed to applaud their extreme indifference to their daughter's personal meltdown? Worse still, Easy A falls into that trap of making fun of the Christian right group at school, led by, yes, a perky minister's daughter (Amanda Bynes). Yawn. We've seen the teen-God-squad-as-villain before.
Quibbles aside, Easy A is mostly a hoot. After the enormous success of Juno, I was expecting to see more films that starred self-assured brainy girls like Juno (and Olive). We haven't. To that end, I'm optimistic that Easy A will serve two noble purposes: It will remind Hollywood that smart teenage girls go to the movies, too (!), and it will finally allow Stone to take the spotlight on her own.


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Help me out here...
So my idiot brother thinks NO ONE but me likes korn... Want to help me prove him wrong?? :)
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RE: Help me out here...
Just tell that nay-sayer to look at this site and all these utterly devoted fans.
RE: Help me out here...
Dear Bayley's Brother,
I like KoRn, too. Your sister is not the only person that likes KoRn because I'm quite certain that she would be unable, through either a lack of funds or the she wasn't born yet problem, to purchase the 19 million albums KoRn has sold world-wide.
Thank you, and have a wonderful day! :-)
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Muahahahahahaha! But seriously, I sort of like Korn too.
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