Acting Essentials
Explore Your Potential as An Actor in 4 Months
Specializations and Careers
Level Design
Game Art
Coding
Level designers take the individual components created by the development team and tie them together to create the encounters players experience while they play. Within the discipline, there are sub-specializations into narrative, environmental set dressing, or scripting of game content.
Careers:
- Level Designer
- Technical Designer
- Environmental Level Designer
- Narrative Designer
- Creative Director
- Design Lead
- Production Support
Artists in the game industry are responsible for creating the assets used in game. Within the industry, artists specialize into a number of sub-fields, taking advantage of extremely powerful tools like Substance Designer, ZBrush, and Maya to do everything from hard-surface modeling to realistic or stylized characters, and procedural materials.
Careers:
- 3D Generalist
- Environmental Artist
- UI Artist
- Cinematics Artist
- 3D Animator
- VFX Artist
- Character Artist
- Pre-visualization Artist
Careers:
- Gameplay Programmer
- Network Programmer
- Audio Programmer
- Technical Director
- Software Architect
- Technical Artist
- Tools Programmer
Coders use computer languages within game engines to create or extend the features in games or to create tools for others to use to create content. Coders are the first to see things in action inside the game, and the tools they create are the foundation of the game industry.
Two Terms. One Goal: Become an Actor.
The Actor’s Craft. Explore an intro to camera, improvisation, and audition, along with the essential actor’s building blocks of voice, movement, text analysis, and acting techniques. Commit to the craft through serious play.
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The Actor’s Toolbox. Integrate the actor’s various disciplines to work more deeply with scripts to create vibrant characters. Build your actor’s toolbox, connect more fully with your voice, body, imagination, and in front of the camera.
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