Intro to video game development

Students will learn fundamentals of video game development and practice creation of content for games and game design.

Digital Monkey School developed a unique proprietary program that includes coding, game design, principles of animation, 3D modelling and digital painting.

Students build their own 3D Adventure, unique player character, items and powerups. Students learn to program custom behaviors, events, triggers and game rules. Visual scripting, digital painting, principles of animation and 3d modeling will be introduced. This program is perfect for complete beginners and experienced video game enthusiasts.

3D Modeling and Animation in Blender

Blender is a complex software, but an amazing and fun curriculum developed by our school will help even younger students to easily comprehend it and be creative. Together we make our first steps in Blender. Students interested in developing skill sets for 3D Modeling should take this course. The course covers the basics and intermediate modeling techniques through hands-on assignments and demonstrations. During the course the learners will be creating a vast array of objects, using Blender as a tool.

Requirements: any Mac or PC computer. We install software via Zoom. PC computer mouse is required for the class.

Digital painting, illustration and graphic design

Students learn how to apply traditional painting and illustration techniques through means of computer, using stylus and tablet.

Multiple painting and drawing techniques are taught to create digital painting directly on the computer through use of various brushes and paint effects. Students learn how to use Adobe Photoshop through creating individual projects: digital paintings, illustrations and collages; and Adobe Illustrator to create graphic design projects such as logos, postcards and posters.

Advanced program in Digital Art, Animation and Game Development

This program is tailored for older students with interest in digital art. In these classes students have a chance to try a variety of disciplines to decide what they would like to focus on while building a portfolio for their future career.

2D animation

In this class kids learn to draw and animate using frame-by frame complex animation technique to create an illusion of movement…

Students create artwork and put it together in an animated movie. Various animation techniques are taught in this class as well as animation theory and history

Academic painting and drawing

During this fun and lively class students are introduced to the key concepts of fine art. Students are taught academic painting and drawing through various techniques and exercises.

Emphasis is placed on developing skills and pursuing an imaginative and personal approach.