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Computer Media Technology
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CMT-119 The Human Character 3 Credits
This course will present concepts in the creation of 3D human character and object modeling
using detailed structures based on polygon modeling design tools such as patch modeling,
image planes, planar projections, and curve projections. This course will also cover in-depth
NURBS modeling of 3D characters and conversion from NURBS to polygonals. These skills
are requisite skills for the successful design and implementation of 3D game design and
computer simulation projects. Most of these techniques were employed in the Sony Pictures
animated short �lm “The ChubbChubbs”. Prerequisite: Game Development Essentials
(CMT101).
CMT-121 Maya Foundations 3 Credits
This course will present the principles of designing gaming and computer simulation using
the same Autodesk Maya techniques and principles as were used in the Sony Pictures feature
�lm “Open Season”. The course will cover the fundamentals of three dimensional (3D)
object creation, 3D object shading, shape texturing, scene and object lighting, and simple
animations. Prerequisite: Writing Skills II (ENG095) or placement and Academic Reading III
(ESL098) or Reading Skills II (RDG095).
CMT-123 Maya Character Modeling 3 Credits
This course will present advanced concepts in the creation of 3D character and object
modeling using detailed structures based on polygon modeling design tools such as patch
modeling, image planes, planar projections, and curve projections. This course will also cover
in-depth NURBS modeling of 3D characters and conversion from NURBS to polygonals. These
skills are requisite skills or the successful design and implementation of 3D game design and
computer simulation projects. Most of these techniques were employed in the Sony Pictures
animated short �lm “The ChubbChubbs”. Prerequisite: Maya Foundations (CMT121).
CMT-125 Cascading Style Sheets 3 Credits
This course will cover the incorporation of modern web design controls for the formatting,
placement, dynamics, interactive functionality, and animation web page content with CSS.
CSS is the primary technology in use today in the fast paced world of web design and is
used to present web content in a standardized manner that far exceeds the capabilities of the
HTML language. CSS is in use in almost every one of the millions of web pages published in
today’s world and is a multi-browser, multi-language coding technology. CSS is found at all
levels of the web design process and lends itself being incorporated as an in-line component,
and embedded component, and a remote component of every HTML, JavaScript, XML, ASP.
net, PHP, and Ruby pages written. It is prevalent and used in IE Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla,
Safari, Opera, and Netscape browsers. CSS can be used to create a myriad of functions from
the simple coloring of text content to the dynamics of drop-down expandable menus to
the inclusion of voice content. It is a technology that has rapidly replaced the traditional
name-pair attribute coding scheme of the previous web design technology. Prerequisite:
Co-requisite HTML & Dreamweaver (CMT111).
CMT-211 XSLT 3 Credits
This course is designed to add a new dimension to the students XML Web Design learning
foundation by introducing them to the XSL style sheet and transformation language. XSL is
a specialized formatting and manipulation that is uniquely applicable to the XML markup
language which enables the developer of XML Web content to perform such tasks as
contextual formatting, conditional selection of Web content from a data source, sorting of
content on a Web page, dynamic counting, dynamic summarization, attribute processing, and
creating dynamic document-wide numbering schemes. Prerequisite: HTML & Dreamweaver
(CMT111) and XML (CMT117).
CMT-215 ASP.NET 3 Credits
This course will teach the student the concepts and practical applications of the web-todatabase
interface. ASP.net is a powerful web technology that permits the construction of web
sites that extract data from server side databases and present the data to the user dynamically.
The ASP.net language is comprehensive and incorporates SQL server and scripting languages
as part of its construction. ASP.net technology is widespread in use and is the technology
behind many on-line e-commerce sites today. Prerequisite: JavaScript (CMT113).
CMT-221 XML Web Services 3 Credits
This course is designed to teach students how to program and utilize Web services
architectures using the Extensible Markup Language (XML) as the foundation language. XML
Web services are services consisting of a combination of programming and data that are made
available from a business”s Web server for Web users or other Web-connected programs. Web
services range from such major services as storage management and customer relationship
management down to much more limited services such as the furnishing of a stock quote and
the checking of bids for an auction item such as is done on E-bay. The accelerating creation
and availability of these services is a major Web trend. This course will prepare students to
employ XML Web services within an overall Web design architecture. Prerequisites: HTML &
Dreamweaver (CMT111) and Javascript (CMT113) and XML (CMT117).
CMT-223 Maya Character Animation 3 Credits
This course will present advanced concepts in the creation of 3D character animation from
simple joint movement to complete synchronized character movement. This course will also
cover blend shaping, skinning techniques, joint constraints and their effect on skinning. These
skills are requisite skills for the successful design and implementation of 3D game design and
computer simulation projects. Most of these techniques were employed in the Sony Pictures
animated short �lm “The ChubbChubbs”. Prerequisites: Maya Character Modeling (CMT123).
CMT-229 Creating 3-D Special Effects 3 Credits
This course will present advanced concepts in the creation and implementation of special
effects, shadings, caustics, global illumination, mental ray rendering, and lighting, shadows,
and cameras. These skills are requisite skills for the successful design and implementation
of 3D game design and computer simulation projects. Most of these techniques were
employed in the Sony Pictures animated short �lm “The ChubbChubbs”. Prerequisites: Maya
Foundations (CMT121).
CMT-231 Mel Scripting in Maya 3 Credits
The course will cover the process of using Maya Embedded Language to manipulate and
animate characters, objects, and object interactions into a complete animation scenario.
MEL scripting incorporates traditional programming constructs such as loops, conditionals,
functions, expressions, and nodes. In addition to traditional constructs this course will
introduce speci�c animation and gaming constructs such as particle dynamics control, user
input selection dialogs, solid body dynamics, and crowd systems. Prerequisite: Creating 2-D
Special Effects (CMT229).
CMT-241 PHP/MySQL 3 Credits
PHP/MySql is a web development programming language that is used to provide dynamic
interaction between web content pages and databases. PHP technology permits web
developers to retrieve and maintain real-time information for presentation across the web
delivery medium. The objectives of this course are to teach the student the skills required
to effectively construct real-time web sites for the purposes of e-commerce and real-time
information delivery. The student will learn how to design and publish web pages that
interact with push/pull actions that interact directly with on-line databases. Prerequisites:
HTML & Dreamweaver (CMT111) and SQL Programming (CIT236).
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