If you’re a filmmaker who’d like to explore the ways AI tools can enhance your creative process, Full Sail DC3’s Generative AI for Filmmaking course can help you on your journey. Open to both novice and experienced filmmakers, this three-week class covers the role AI can play in pre-production, production, and post-production. You’ll use AI chatbots to develop ideas, outlines, and scripts; generate still images, short clips, and extended clips during production; and use AI editing tools to complete a short film. By blending theory with practical applications, this course teaches the basics about the role of rapidly evolving AI tools in the world of film.

Generative AI for Filmmaking

Students explore the ethics of AI in media and use generative AI tools to outline a story prompt, generate a script, and create a storyboard for an AI-driven short film.

Introduction & AI for Pre-Production

Students discover how they can generate backgrounds, dynamic images, short and extended clips, music, and more for their short film.

Production

Students wrap up by editing a cut of their short film using generative AI editing tools and discuss ways to search for AI editing opportunities.

Post-Production

This course explores the practical applications of generative AI tools in the film production process.

Get creative with lighting fundamentals in this self-paced film lighting course from Full Sail DC3. You’ll learn both technical and artistic skills that you can apply when you’re lighting for film, including hands-on techniques, scene-based breakdowns, and production-ready workflows. Get familiar with lighting strategies for production scenarios from interviews to narrative scenes, learn how to use both pro gear and DIY tools, understand the lighting strategies needed for on-location shoots, and practice using DaVinci Resolve for post-production. By the end of this course, you’ll have a better understanding of how to effectively light scenes for your film and video projects.

Lighting for Film: Creative Applications for Pre & Post-Production

Discover the foundational principles of lighting, including the differences between hard and soft light, how modifiers shape light quality, and how color temperature affects visual tone. You’ll explore a variety of lighting fixtures, including affordable DIY options, and learn how to choose the right tools for different environments and aesthetics.

Understanding Light & Tools

Learn to apply lighting techniques to real-world production scenarios by understanding how to light scenes for Zoom calls, interviews, commercial shoots, and dramatic two-person conversations. You’ll also learn how to manage lighting for moving shots (like walk-and-talk sequences), gaining confidence in lighting subjects in motion while maintaining visual consistency.

Lighting for Real-World Productions

Prepare for the unpredictable nature of location shoots by bridging pre-production planning with post-production editing. You’ll learn how to plan lighting remotely without a scout, perform physical location evaluations, simulate day-for-night setups, and use DaVinci Resolve to correct and enhance lighting in post-production.

Location Challenges & Post-Production

Learn technical strategies for creatively and effectively lighting a range of scenes in a variety of locations.

Explore the art of storytelling and the technical aspects of mobile video production in Full Sail DC3’s hands-on mobile content creation course. From idea generation to recording to post-production, discover how you can capture and share engaging video content using only your smartphone.

Mobile Video Editing & Production: Create Compelling Content

Students learn about basic principles for creating videos on their smartphone, like selecting a video topic, composition techniques, mobile video formats, and strategies for impactful storytelling.

Introduction & Storytelling

Students gain hands-on experience in the planning and recording phases of mobile video production, including scriptwriting, choosing audio and video settings on their smartphone, and lighting techniques.

Pre-Production & Production

Students learn about editing techniques, like how to edit mobile videos to create a clear narrative, how to add royalty-free music, and how to share their content on different platforms.

Post-Production & Sharing

This course teaches technical video production skills and creative storytelling techniques for creating short-form video content on a smartphone.

Podcasts have become a cultural phenomenon, offering a unique platform for individuals and organizations to share stories, ideas, and conversations with the world. However, creating a successful podcast requires a producer who is confident in several skillsets. In Full Sail DC3’s Podcast Essentials: Production &amp; Editing Skills, you will work through the three stages of production to prepare, record, and edit a podcast that you can distribute and market to audiences. This course is for you if you’re eager to explore the art and techniques of producing compelling podcasts or expand your podcasting knowledge and experience.

Podcast Essentials: Production and Editing Skills

Students receive a general overview of the podcasting industry, outline podcasting production steps, and use storytelling concepts to draft a script.

Introduction & Podcast Pre-Production: Storytelling and Scriptwriting

Students learn about the hardware and software used in podcast production, set up their recording/filming space, and record their own podcast segment.

Podcast Production: Gear, Setup, and Recording

Students wrap up by practicing audio and video editing skills, examining common podcast distribution tactics, and developing marketing assets to promote a completed episode.

Podcast Post-Production: Editing and Distribution

This course focuses on the technical skills needed to produce and edit a podcast from start to finish.

Whether it’s Westworld or Westeros, creating epic worlds on screen is a complicated job that balances technical know-how with industry nuance and creative vision. If you’re interested in pursuing a role in film production, you want to learn from someone who has done it – someone like Stephen Beres. He’s an Emmy-winning producer and technologist who has worked on some of television’s biggest shows, including HBO’s Game of Thrones, Westworld, and True Detective. In this course, Stephen draws from his years of experience to give in-depth insights into the visual language of film.

The Craft of Cinematography: Mastering Visual Language

Stephen introduces himself and goes over what students will learn in this course.

Introduction

Students explore basic visual language concepts and learn how to identify visual language in movie scenes.

Critiquing Visual Language

Stephen shows students how to find sources of inspiration and how to use those sources to bring original ideas to the screen.

Communicating Visual Language Intent Through Inspiration

Students learn how to conduct camera movement tests and how to use the results to achieve their visual language goals.

Movement Test Analysis and Application

Students discover how camera dynamic range tests can help them determine the best camera to use for their preferred visual language.

Dynamic Range Test Analysis and Application

Stephen explains how to conduct mixed and available light tests on different cameras, and discusses how the test results can help build a film’s visual language.

Mixed and Available Light Test Analysis and Application

Students use provided footage to create and edit a reel that showcases their chosen visual language.

Putting it Together

Emmy-winning producer Stephen Beres takes you through techniques he’s used working on shows like Game of Thrones and Sesame Street.

If you’re a creator who’s ready to take their filmmaking to the next level with virtual production, this Full Sail DC3 course will give you a hands-on introduction to that technology. You’ll focus on real-time filmmaking techniques using Unreal Engine; understand core technologies like LED volumes, camera tracking, and virtual set design; and gain practical knowledge of virtual art departments and in-camera visual effects. Through hands-on projects, you’ll build your own virtual environments and apply lighting and material workflows to them. By the end of this course, you’ll have a completed scene optimized for LED stage playback. This class also includes an optional, daylong, in-person workshop on Full Sail University’s campus in Winter Park, Florida. You can get hands-on experience in Studio V1 (the university’s virtual production studio), learn more about the world of virtual production, and receive feedback on your coursework. Students who can’t attend in person can join in through a live Zoom session.

Virtual Production for Film: Bring Unreal Engine Visual Effects to Life

Learn the core tools and creative techniques to begin crafting visually compelling scenes in Unreal Engine. You’ll start with lessons on installation, interface navigation, and essential workflows like importing assets, designing landscapes, and placing foliage. You’ll explore tools like Quixel Bridge, lighting techniques, and cinematic scene design principles, then build a static environment scene that conveys a specific mood and atmosphere.

Unreal Engine: Setup & Environment Design

Build confidence in using Unreal’s animation pipeline and Sequencer tool to bring scenes to life with motion and emotion. Begin by exploring key animation techniques including keyframing, camera movement, and animating props and environments. You’ll also learn character animation workflows, such as importing animated characters, using Animation Blueprints, and retargeting animations. Through hands-on practice, you’ll animate a short cinematic sequence, applying depth of field, camera transitions, and storytelling techniques.

Unreal Engine: Animation & Sequencer Basics

Focus on polishing cinematic projects in Unreal Engine by enhancing visuals, sound, and final output quality. You’ll discover how to add ambient audio and music to your projects, trigger sounds within Sequencer, and explore simple visual effects using Niagara. This module also covers post-processing techniques like bloom, LUTs, and color grading. Final touches include camera adjustments and rendering sequences using the Movie Render Queue with high-quality export settings.

Unreal Engine: Sound, FX, and Final Polish

Understand the core principles and workflows of virtual production, focusing on real-time filmmaking using Unreal Engine. You’ll have an overview of key techniques such as ICVFX (In-Camera Visual Effects), pre-visualization, virtual scouting, and live compositing with green screens. Plus, you’ll learn about essential virtual production studio infrastructure, like LED volumes, camera tracking systems like Mo-Sys and OptiTrack, and supporting hardware and software tools.

Intro to Virtual Production

Dive into the technical setup and project management aspects of virtual production using nDisplay. You’ll configure your own nDisplay systems, set up CineCameras, and operate virtual cameras within a multi-display environment. Then you’ll cover best practices for asset management, explore tools like the Outliner and Content Browser, and discover the importance of gathering visual references to build your own structured, production-ready project environment.

Pre-Production & nDisplay Setup

Learn to build production-ready virtual environments specifically designed for LED wall workflows. You’ll explore how to design scenes that account for perspective, parallax, and horizon management within curved or flat LED volumes. You’ll also cover advanced lighting techniques using the Environment Light Mixer, dynamic time-of-day setups, and Sky Atmosphere tools tailored for virtual production. Additionally, you’ll develop landscapes and implement foliage systems optimized for LED displays.

Exterior Environment Creation

Create detailed and performance-optimized interior environments for virtual production. You’ll get familiar with making interior set dressing with a focus on visual depth and performance efficiency, and integrate interactive elements, ambient animations, and lightweight particle systems to bring environments to life. By the end of this module, you’ll be equipped to design rich, dynamic interior scenes tailored for real-time production.

Interior Environment & Set Dressing

Optimize materials for virtual production environments to ensure both visual fidelity and performance efficiency in real-time production settings. You’ll get familiar with various lighting types, their functions, and performance considerations, with a focus on interior and LED volume-specific lighting setups. In terms of materials, you’ll adjust and optimize materials for LED walls, implement decals, and use material variation systems to add richness and flexibility to scenes.

Look Development & Ambient Life

Refine the visual quality and performance of your project for final delivery. In this module, you’ll apply post-processing effects like bloom, vignette, and lens flare tailored for LED volumes. You’ll also optimize texture resolutions and compression techniques and get familiar with GPU stat tools and view modes. Then you’ll render your final cinematic using CineCamera, Sequencer, and Movie Render Queue to prepare it for on-screen presentation.

Exporting & Final Presentation

Learn the technical and creative skills needed to use Unreal Engine for virtual production filmmaking techniques.

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.

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.

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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