Are you ready to create the video game art that’s been in your imagination? This self-paced online game art course from Full Sail DC3 combines traditional drawing techniques with digital tools to help you bring game-ready artwork to life. You’ll explore foundational drawing skills, composition and color theory, digital tools, and the principles of visual storytelling to build a foundation in game art. Through structured exercises and creative projects, you’ll gain hands-on experience in crafting immersive game environments and characters. By the end of the course, you’ll have a solid understanding of perspective, light, shadow, texture, and storytelling techniques essential for game art and digital illustration.

Game Art Fundamentals: From Sketch to Screen

Build the essential drawing skills needed for game art while exploring how genre influences visual style. By discovering techniques like line control, gesture drawing, and perspective, you’ll learn to create forms that feel dynamic and grounded in space. You’ll also begin developing your personal visual direction by researching and assembling a genre mood board, a key step in shaping your project’s aesthetic and tone.

Drawing Foundations & Genre Explorations

Dive into designing the visual elements that bring a game world to life: its characters, creatures, and props. You’ll learn how to use proportion, stylization, and shape language to create memorable and readable designs that reflect personality, genre, and function. By exploring archetypes, costume choices, and item design, you’ll begin to build assets that feel consistent, purposeful, and ready for gameplay or concept art presentation.

Character, Creature & Prop Design

Learn how light and shadow bring objects to life by giving them form, weight, and depth. You’ll explore how different lighting setups affect mood and readability, then practice rendering basic shapes using highlights, core shadows, and reflected light. Building on that foundation, you’ll shift into visual exploration through thumbnail iteration. This process will help you quickly test design ideas and refine them to match the tone and style of your game world.

Environment Design

Learn to combine traditional drawing techniques with digital tools to create immersive video game environments and memorable characters.

Explore the ways AI can improve your design workflow and push the boundaries of your creativity with Full Sail DC3’s Generative AI for Design course. You’ll dive into the ethical considerations and practical applications of generative AI and discover how AI tools can accelerate your design process. You’ll also learn to write effective AI prompts for creating visuals, automating repetitive tasks, and building personalized design experiences. After discovering the ways you can collaborate with AI while maintaining creative control, you’ll be ready to start using generative AI in your own design projects.

Generative AI for Design

Students learn about generative AI fundamentals, ethical considerations, the various applications of AI in design, and how to craft effective AI prompts.

Fundamentals of Generative AI in Design

Students explore generative AI applications, tools, and techniques for industries like graphic design, UI/UX design, web design, fashion, architecture, and more.

Leveraging Generative AI Across Design Industries

Students discover how to embrace AI as a design partner by establishing collaborative workflows and developing hybrid skills that combine AI with human creativity.

Mastering the Human-AI Relationship in Design Innovation

This course covers the basics of using generative AI in the design world.

Learn how to use your smartphone to capture stunning images and impactful shots with Full Sail DC3’s course, Professional Phone Photography: Take Amazing Photos. Through guidance from Full Sail DC3 instructors and hands-on practice, you’ll learn about mobile photography fundamentals, various photographic genres, and visual storytelling techniques. By the end of this course, you will understand what’s needed to elevate your mobile photography to the next level.

Professional Phone Photography: Take Amazing Photos

Students learn about the photography workflow and strategies for creating impactful photographs, like choosing appropriate camera settings and using lighting and composition techniques.

Understanding Photography Fundamentals

Students explore color theory, genre conventions, and photographic techniques that will help capture the essence of their subject.

Visual Storytelling with Colors & Genres

Students practice taking photos that can be used for content creation or other purposes, like illustrating narratives, telling meaningful stories, or capturing specific lifestyles.

Photography Practice

This course teaches technical and creative skills for taking compelling photos with a smartphone.

Are you ready to discover the ways you can use generative AI for marketing? In this Full Sail DC3 course, you’ll learn the basics of using AI to enhance marketing workflows, create assets, automate tasks, and more. Explore the history and ethics of AI in marketing, learn to use AI tools and techniques for tasks like content creation and personalization, and create a comprehensive digital marketing plan using AI-generated assets. You’ll leave this course with the basic skills and knowledge needed to harness the power of AI in the marketing landscape.

Generative AI for Marketing

Students delve into the history and applications of AI in marketing, focusing on content creation, personalization, and ethics while engaging in hands-on activities with AI tools.

Fundamentals of Generative AI in Marketing

Students focus on practical tools and techniques for using generative AI in marketing and learn how AI can enhance product development, pricing, distribution, promotions, and more.

Generative AI Tools for Marketing

Students gain hands-on experience by creating a comprehensive marketing plan, integrating traditional marketing strategies with AI-generated assets to produce actionable results.

Creating an AI Marketing Plan

This class teaches techniques and tools for using generative AI for digital marketing.

Are you eager to hone your storytelling skills and build your creative confidence? This self-paced online creative writing course from Full Sail DC3 is designed for aspiring and returning writers who want to bring their ideas to life through stories. You’ll explore key elements of fiction, like character, setting, voice, plot, and revision, while also building your own writing process. With the support of structured lessons, engaging prompts, and optional AI tools, you’ll create and polish a short story or creative piece to share or submit for publication. Whether you&#39;re returning to a childhood passion or taking your first steps into the writing world, this creative writing course will help you craft compelling stories and sustainable writing habits.

Creative Writing: The Craft of Storytelling

Learn the foundations of creative writing by connecting with your personal motivation and developing a strong understanding of story structure. You’ll reflect on why you write, explore sources of inspiration, and use both traditional and AI-based techniques to generate story ideas and overcome creative blocks. Then you’ll dive into the core elements of storytelling, including genre, plot, character, setting, and theme, to begin shaping the foundation of your own stories.

Your “Why” & Storytelling Basics

Develop the essential building blocks that bring stories to life. You’ll learn to create fully developed characters with clear motivations and internal conflicts, then you’ll explore authorial voice and tone and learn to write with clarity and intention while crafting dialogue that sounds natural. You’ll also deepen your storytelling by building realistic worlds using sensory details and symbolism, then create a draft of your story that integrates character, voice, setting, and style.

Building Your Story

Complete a full draft of your story by focusing on writing momentum, discipline, and cohesion. You’ll explore practical strategies to build and sustain a writing routine, overcome common obstacles such as self-doubt, distraction, and loss of direction, and maintain narrative flow and consistency across scenes. Through guided exercises, you’ll learn to silence your inner critic and write with clarity and confidence.

Writing Your Story

Explore the revision process and prepare to share your work with others while building a long-term writing practice. You’ll learn the difference between revising and proofreading, use structured checklists, utilize peer or AI feedback to polish your drafts, and learn to view feedback as a creative tool rather than criticism. You’ll also discover publishing options like contests, blogs, or self-publishing. Plus, you’ll build a sustainable writing routine to support your continued creative growth.

Revising & Publishing Your Story

Learn foundational creative writing skills by exploring writing techniques and tools and creating your own short story.

Are you a music or audio professional who’s ready to expand your production skills with immersive audio? This Full Sail DC3 course can equip you with the skills to adapt music for immersive audio experiences. Focusing on Dolby Atmos, the course covers essential concepts, tools, and techniques for producing high-quality immersive mixes. Through hands-on projects, guided tutorials, and reflective discussions, you’ll prepare your music for platforms like streaming services, home theaters, and live experiences. This course also explores immersive audio in visual media – including film, TV, and video games – highlighting how immersive sound enhances storytelling and user experience.

Immersive Audio Engineering: Mixing & Mastering for Entertainment

Students learn about immersive audio terminology; key differences between stereo, surround, and immersive audio; immersive audio formats; and immersive capture techniques.

Introduction to Immersive Audio

Students set up and configure a Dolby Atmos production environment, implement proper speaker layouts, and review and analyze a stereo mix to prepare it for immersive remixing.

Introduction to Dolby Atmos

Students discover how to prep a Pro Tools session; assign, engage, and utilize objects for immersive panning; and use automation and effects to enhance immersive environments.

Mixing & Spatialization in Dolby Atmos

Students identify common issues in immersive audio production and apply solutions, learn about session templates for complex workflows, and consider advanced Atmos techniques.

Optimizing, Troubleshooting & Advanced Techniques

Students learn about immersive audio deliverables and understand delivery specifications, then export, validate, deliver, and archive an immersive mix using Dolby Atmos Renderer.

Mastering & Exporting Immersive Audio for Distribution

Students explore tools and techniques for designing immersive soundscapes in visual media, discuss theatrical Atmos Dub Stage configurations, consider VR applications, and more.

Immersive Audio in Visual Media

Students learn to adapt music for immersive audio experiences using Dolby Atmos software applications.

If you’d like to explore spatial computing through hands-on activities, this Full Sail DC3 course is for you. You’ll use Spline 3D development software to create and manipulate 3D environments, design user interactions, and develop location-based AR games. This course also delves into advanced techniques like AI integration and haptic feedback, so you’ll gain experience with cutting-edge skills. By the end of this course, you’ll complete a comprehensive spatial computing project that showcases your ability to design a user-centered, immersive experience.

Spatial Computing & XR: Create Immersive Environments

Students learn the basics of XR and its applications across various industries. They’ll also explore sample XR projects and develop a proposal for their own interactive XR experience.

Introduction to Spatial Computing

Students explore the foundations of 3D modeling, practice basic environment-building skills in Unity and Unreal Engine, develop 3D thinking skills, and learn to design user-friendly 3D spaces.

Working with 3D Environments

Students create basic AR/VR interactions using Unity and Unreal Engine, design a short AR/VR experience, and create a personal reference library of tools, assets, and 3D resources.

AR/VR Interaction Design

Students examine case studies of games like 'Pokémon GO', then develop small-scale AR game concepts that place virtual objects at GPS coordinates in an interactive storytelling experience.

Inspiration from Popular XR Games

Students learn about the integration of AI and machine learning in spatial computing, develop an interactive AI bot, and develop an AR interactive story using AI-developed content.

Advanced Techniques in Spatial Computing

Students use the skills they’ve developed throughout the course to build their comprehensive spatial computing project and a video presentation to explain their concept and process.

Spatial Computing Project

This class teaches skills for using AR and VR technology to create a spatial computing project.

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