Why take a Digital Arts Course?
According to a study by Adobe Education, 76% of Generation Z students and 75% of teachers wish there was a greater focus on creativity in their classes. Educational priorities have evolved, and today’s lesson plans focus more on interactive tools and less on memorization.
Digital art classes encourage digital creativity and build soft skills as the focus on STEM expands to include the arts and educators adopt a STEAM approach
Educators see tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud as ways to help students use the arts to build those needed problem-solving skills. In the 21st century, students need to have the ability to be creative; not necessarily to be artsy, to have an arts background, but to be creative in approaches to a problem. These apps give students an opportunity to flex their creative muscles while building skills using technology they’ll encounter in the workplace.
To make of the most of your virtual classroom, it’s critical to make sure you have the right equipment and setup. Many smartphones and tablets offer HD cameras that are suitable in quality for art classrooms.
What if your school does not offer Digital Arts?
If you are a parent, encourage your child to learn at home. Register for remote learning, or take an in-person course in one of our operators. Find all the information about or Digital Arts courses here and choose your preferred learning delivery method. If you are an educator, does your school offer Digital Arts? If it does not, you can help bring Digital Arts to your school, or expand the offerings. Become a partner or check out our learning centres and how to become one.
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Model and create characters while learning professional animation techniques from the pros, bringing your ideas to life with an animated film. Learn how to create 3D character animations with Maya. Bring characters to life by learning professional techniques to make animation fun and easy. Develop an understanding of the storytelling and character animation process with the industry-standard 3D software, Autodesk Maya.
Age: 13-18
Style: Teacher-Led
In this introductory course you'll develop an artistic style using Autodesk Maya and CGI to master the basics of modeling, texturing, lighting, rendering and animation for 3D film production. Create 3D models, sculpt characters, and build environments as you explore complex modeling techniques that focus on proper model topology. Learn professional workflows as you work with Autodesk Maya.
Age: 13-18
Style: Teacher-Led
In this course, students will learn how to develop their very own products from concept to 3D printed prototype using an Ultimaker 2+ 3D Printer and Autodesk Fusion 360. They will act as designers and will be given real-world design challenges.
Age: 13-18
Style: Teacher-Led
Creating has undergone an incredible evolution in the last decade as 3D printing capabilities continue to rapidly evolve. Whether fixing your favorite toy’s broken part or building your 3D printed city, this course will empower students with the fundamental understanding and experience with the software and hardware that are responsible for custom 3D printing.
Age: 9-12
Style: Teacher-Led
Incorporate classical animation principles and understand the importance of animation in TV, film and games history. Develop expertise in Adobe Animate for Flash animations and character testing.
Age: 13-18
Style: Teacher-Led
With nearly one billion daily active users combined, YouTube is the established player while Instagram and TikTok have crashed onto the digital content scene like a tidal wave. Get social, learn from experts, and share your new skills with your world. Learn the fundamentals of the creative digital arts and develop your skills with mobile apps, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.
Age: 13-18
Style: Teacher-Led
Ever wonder how the objects we use every day have changed over time? How about what these objects would look like in the future? Learn about the changes in the designs we use and design your own versions in the future. In this course, young students will investigate the way design has changed over time by examining the objects and places that influence our day-to-day lives
Age: 13-18
Style: Teacher-Led
This course will give you the opportunity to learn about and practice all different kinds of design. Whether you're interested in fashion, technology, product design, architecture, or play spaces, you can build your design skills and knowledge by tackling a series of design challenges. You can even have the opportunity to share your design solutions with others.
Age: 13-18
Style: Teacher-Led
In this course, you will combine your creative genius and 3D designs to create an original play space. Youll start with simple structures and then use the design process to envision and start building a world for fun, play, and exploration.Designing Play Spaces takes learners on a journey that begins with inspiration and ends with an exciting project-based design activity.
Age: 13-18
Style: Teacher-Led
Cities are amazing, complex places. Helping so many people live healthy, happy lives in one place is part of the work of urban designers and architects. Use your talent and creativity to create unique urban spaces that make city living better for everyone. In this course, students will explore the role of designers, architects, and urban planners in making cities better places to live.
Age: 13-18
Style: Teacher-Led
Take your drawing and illustration skills from paper to digital, understanding the principles of life-drawing (utilizing clothed digital poses and anatomy), perspective (1, 2 and 3-point) and composition. Understand how to design backgrounds and characters that work well when animated. Develop the art of storytelling by thinking sequentially to create storyboards.
Age: 13-18
Style: Teacher-Led
Professional shooting techniques combined with hands-on learning show you how to use your DSLR camera to take world-class photographs. Master your DSLR camera as you learn professional workflows and manual camera controls like aperature, shutter speed, and ISO speed settings. Use Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop to edit your photos before creating a professional portfolio.
Age: 13-18
Style: Teacher-Led
Self-Paced
Don't Stand Still Mate... Animate!
Do you like watching cartoons and animated movies and wonder how pictures can be made to come to life? Learn how some of your favourite shows are created!
In this course students will be exposed to three types of animations that are most commonly seen on TV and movies today and explore how each of them are created by professionals in the field. They will then learn to create their own simple animations using the flip book method as well as using a program to create animation.
Style: Self-Paced
The Power of Pictures
Learn how to draw and edit illustrations and how to take and edit photos to use in creative projects for fun and for an audience. Learn basic photography techniques (zoom, shadow, composition, etc) to understand some of the ways that photographers can create a narrative as well. Analyze how different elements of a picture convey meaning. Plan a story you want to tell and use a collection of images (drawings, found images, and your own photos) to tell a story.
Style: Self-Paced
The Power of Pictures: Digital Illustrations
In this course, students will learn about the ways in which images are used to tell stories. Already familiar with picture books, they will use this knowledge as a springboard to analyze how different elements of a picture convey meaning. They learn how to use different online drawing programs to create digital illustrations for specific purposes. As a final step, they will plan a story they want to tell and use a collection of original digital illustrations to tell their story.
Style: Self-Paced
The Power of Pictures: Digital Illustrations
Students will learn about the ways in which images are used to tell stories. Already familiar with picture books, they will use this knowledge as a springboard to analyze how different elements of a picture convey meaning. They will then learn basic photography techniques (zoom, shadow, composition, etc) to understand some of the ways that photographers can create a narrative as well. They will plan a story they want to tell and use a collection of images to tell a story.
Style: Self-Paced
Watch Cartoons? Create Your Own!
Watched an animation on TV or in the movies? Learn about how professionals like the ones from Pixar create storyboards to plan out their ideas. Explore the common types of animation that are featured on TV and movies. Discover that no matter what type, a good animation depends on good planning. Professionals use storyboarding to plan out their work before creating their animation and students will have an opportunity to try it using a web-based tool called StoryboardThat.
Style: Self-Paced
Show and Tell: Script and Storyboard
Take this course to learn about the art of storytelling and try your hands on creating a story using helpful hints from professionals! In this course, students will learn about the ways in which images are used to tell stories. Already familiar with picture books, they will use this knowledge as a springboard to analyze how different elements of a picture convey meaning.
Style: Self-Paced
Mobile Journalism
This course will give you the skills to find stories to tell, and to reach an audience. It’s your moment, it’s your world, so help shape it. In App Designer Studio, students will design, create, and market an app that meets the needs of a defined user group. Through this process, you will explore the diverse range of applications created for mobile devices including social networks, health informatics, sports science, fintech, resource sharing, and recommendation algorithms.
Style: Self-Paced
Daring Designs
Ever wonder how the objects we use every day have changed over time? How about what these objects would look like in the future? Learn about the changes in the designs we use and design your own versions in the future.
Style: Self-Paced
Design Challenges
This course will give you the opportunity to learn about and practice all different kinds of design. Whether you’re interested in fashion, technology, product-design, architecture, or play spaces, you can build your design skills and knowledge by tackling a series of design challenges. You can even have the opportunity to share your design solutions with others.
Style: Self-Paced
Designing Urban Spaces
Cities are amazing, complex places. Use your talent and creativity to create unique urban spaces that make city living better for everyone. In this course students will explore the role of designers, architects, and urban planners in making cities better places to live. They will then use their own ideas and research to design an urban space that seeks to improve urban life by addressing specific urban issues.
Style: Self-Paced
Graphic Designer Studio
Learn some techniques and tricks that graphic designers use. Apply your new skills and knowledge to create your own websites, book covers, logos and more. Learn about accepted principles of graphic design and their influence on media ranging from print design to app design. Explore the ways that colour scheme and layout affect the user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) in many the devices and programs we use every day.
Style: Self-Paced
Introduction to 3D Modeling in Tinkercad
This course will introduce students to the world of 3D modeling in our global society before creating 3D models using the polygonal method of modeling. These models can then be viewed and shared in a digital environment or printed using a 3D printer. With the basic skills the student learns in this course, they will be able to start exploring a variety of education paths to working in the 3D modelling industry in other areas of interest.
Style: Self-Paced
Entrepreneurship Bootcamp
Learn some techniques and tricks that graphic designers use. Apply your new skills and knowledge to create your own websites, book covers, logos and more. Participants in this course will learn about accepted principles of graphic design and their influence on media ranging from print design to app design. Throughout the course, participants will analyze, remix, and create original work for target audiences that reflect these essential concepts of design.
Style: Self-Paced
Designing Play Spaces
Combine your creative genius and 3D designs to create an original play space. An opportunity for learners to combine design thinking, 3D modeling skills and creativity as they design and build (with software) a public play space of their choice. The course begins with students discovering the different types of careers as architect-designers while they learn the skills that help them build virtual spaces inspired by their own ideas and of the designers who inspire them.
Style: Self-Paced
Self-Paced
Design Thinking for Product Designers
Design Thinking for Product Designers
Design Thinking for Product Designers
This course will give you the opportunity to learn about and practice all different kinds of design. Whether you’re interested in fashion, technology, product-design, architecture, or play spaces, you can build your design skills and knowledge by tackling a series of design challenges. You can even have the opportunity to share your design solutions with others.
Age: 9-12
Style: Self-Paced
Ingenious Engineers!
Design Thinking for Product Designers
Design Thinking for Product Designers
How do people build everything from cars to giant structures? With machines! Learn about the machines that shape our world and start designing the next generation of machines to change the future.
Age: 5-8
Style: Self-Paced
Ingenious Engineers!
Design Thinking for Product Designers
Ingenious Engineers!
Learn about robots, play with some virtual robots online then use your creativity and skills to design a robot of the future.
Age:9-12
Style: Self-Paced
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The Global Student Innovation Race
July 02-14, 2023 in Silicon Valley
A once-in-a-life time opportunity for student groups (13-18yrs) to learn from Stanford Educators, travel to Silicon Valley, and take part in an exciting Innovation Challenge.