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Certificate
Bring Your Imagination to Life
Animation isn't just about cartoons anymore. In today's interactive world, you see it in everything from movies, websites and video games to the medical, architectural and legal industries. Now more than ever it is important to learn the techniques to create visual imagery that tells a story, expresses your creative vision and makes an impact. Whether you're interested in a career in video games, commercial production, medical visualization, architecture, or any other industry, you'll gain the skills and confidence to succeed as a character animator, scenery designer, technical director, visual effects artist, texture artist and more.
Certificate
Become an Expert in Cutting-Edge Audio
If music is your life or creating sound is your dream, then check out our Audio Production Certificate Program to learn the art of music recording and sound design. You'll study how music and sound are used in albums, film, television, games and new media, and then have the opportunity to work with experienced musicians and run real recording sessions. Learn Foley and ADR, design sound for animation and games, and more. By working with students in other CDIA programs, you'll learn how recording engineers, music producers, sound designers and studio managers collaborate in the real world.
Certificate
Envision Your Future as a Filmmaker
Develop your artistic and technical filmmaking skills and spark your creative voice with the Professional Digital Filmmaking Certificate at CDIA. You'll be immersed in the world of digital filmmaking as you learn to use the camera to tell a story, share an emotion, give a voice to the voiceless. No matter where your professional interest lies--as a camera operator, director, producer, editor or cinematographer--you can create films that inspire, educate and inform.
Certificate
Express Your Passion for Creativity
Graphic design plays a vital role in every industry and area of our lives. High-quality design helps people access and understand products and ideas, and be informed, educated and entertained. When you learn to think like a designer, you'll use the vocabulary of graphic and web design to communicate your clients' ideas and solve their problems. Whether you're interested in design for print or the Web, illustration, production or digital imaging, the Graphic and Web Design Certificate at CDIA will be the foundation for an amazing career in the graphic arts.
Certificate
Open Your Eyes to the Possibilities
What do you see when you look through the lens? Share your unique vision and creativity with the world by mastering the art and craft of photography at CDIA. The career possibilities are endless in the commercial, portrait, studio, environmental, industrial, wedding, and event photography industries. And talented, well-trained photographers can find success anywhere. Come to CDIA to develop your "eye" and build the technical skills you need to truly express your creative vision.
Certificate
Get ready for your future in building next-generation rich media with the Web Development Certificate. Learn how to create dynamic, data-driven websites and Internet applications today's users and companies are demanding. Working with the same tools the professionals use, you'll develop content-rich websites that use databases and programming languages to display context-sensitive web content. This intensive program focuses on client-side programming with HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and server-side programming using PHP scripting and Structured Query Language (SQL) databases in deploying rich media sites using various Flash and open source content management toolsets. Through a combination of hands-on exercises, lectures and projects, you'll be introduced to real-world applications with emphasis on JavaScript, MySQL, XML, AJAX and object-oriented programming techniques on projects of increasing complexity. You'll learn how to build rich Internet applications, manage social content for the Web and generate a portfolio demonstrating your new skills in web platform development, integration and deployment. Upon completion--and with a substantial résumé and the latest web development programming skills-- you will have the knowledge and experience to enter the workforce with confidence.
Bring Your Imagination to Life
Animation isn't just about cartoons anymore. In today's interactive world, you see it in everything from movies, websites and video games to the medical, architectural and legal industries. Now more than ever it is important to learn the techniques to create visual imagery that tells a story, expresses your creative vision and makes an impact. Whether you're interested in a career in video games, commercial production, medical visualization, architecture, or any other industry, you'll gain the skills and confidence to succeed as a character animator, scenery designer, technical director, visual effects artist, texture artist and more.
Certificate
Become an Expert in Cutting-Edge Audio
If music is your life or creating sound is your dream, then check out our Audio Production Certificate Program to learn the art of music recording and sound design. You'll study how music and sound are used in albums, film, television, games and new media, and then have the opportunity to work with experienced musicians and run real recording sessions. Learn Foley and ADR, design sound for animation and games, and more. By working with students in other CDIA programs, you'll learn how recording engineers, music producers, sound designers and studio managers collaborate in the real world.
Certificate
Envision Your Future as a Filmmaker
Develop your artistic and technical filmmaking skills and spark your creative voice with the Professional Digital Filmmaking Certificate at CDIA. You'll be immersed in the world of digital filmmaking as you learn to use the camera to tell a story, share an emotion, give a voice to the voiceless. No matter where your professional interest lies--as a camera operator, director, producer, editor or cinematographer--you can create films that inspire, educate and inform.
Certificate
Express Your Passion for Creativity
Graphic design plays a vital role in every industry and area of our lives. High-quality design helps people access and understand products and ideas, and be informed, educated and entertained. When you learn to think like a designer, you'll use the vocabulary of graphic and web design to communicate your clients' ideas and solve their problems. Whether you're interested in design for print or the Web, illustration, production or digital imaging, the Graphic and Web Design Certificate at CDIA will be the foundation for an amazing career in the graphic arts.
Certificate
Open Your Eyes to the Possibilities
What do you see when you look through the lens? Share your unique vision and creativity with the world by mastering the art and craft of photography at CDIA. The career possibilities are endless in the commercial, portrait, studio, environmental, industrial, wedding, and event photography industries. And talented, well-trained photographers can find success anywhere. Come to CDIA to develop your "eye" and build the technical skills you need to truly express your creative vision.
Certificate
Get ready for your future in building next-generation rich media with the Web Development Certificate. Learn how to create dynamic, data-driven websites and Internet applications today's users and companies are demanding. Working with the same tools the professionals use, you'll develop content-rich websites that use databases and programming languages to display context-sensitive web content. This intensive program focuses on client-side programming with HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and server-side programming using PHP scripting and Structured Query Language (SQL) databases in deploying rich media sites using various Flash and open source content management toolsets. Through a combination of hands-on exercises, lectures and projects, you'll be introduced to real-world applications with emphasis on JavaScript, MySQL, XML, AJAX and object-oriented programming techniques on projects of increasing complexity. You'll learn how to build rich Internet applications, manage social content for the Web and generate a portfolio demonstrating your new skills in web platform development, integration and deployment. Upon completion--and with a substantial résumé and the latest web development programming skills-- you will have the knowledge and experience to enter the workforce with confidence.
