Illustration Level 2: Entertainment Arts Emphasis

Arts Division
Commercial & Entertainment Arts Department
The Illustration Level 2: Entertainment Arts certificate provides students with the skillset to create concepts and illustrations for the entertainment industry including video games, film, and television. Students must complete the Illustration Level 1 certificate first requiring a total of 18 units and courses must be completed with a grade of C or higher. Focusing on visual communication and world building, students will generate a professional portfolio showcasing strong character design, perspective, props, and keyframes showcasing strong draftsmanship techniques for employment in the entertainment industry.

Students who successfully complete the program will be able to:

1. Generate new story concepts and visuals
2. Communicate story beats with clear visual narration
3. Demonstrate the synthesis of story, style, character, location, emotion, and symbology in compositional studies
4. Clearly communicate character and emotion visually
5. Utilize quick study drawing skills through visual notes and personal studies as a basis for planning larger extended works of art.
6. Create original concepts that interpret a new visual world.

With this certificate, students will have gained the skillset necessary to pursue entry-level employment for a career path within the following job descriptions: Art director, Visual Development lead, Concept artist, Industrial designer, Costume designer, Environment design artist, Lighting/Color Key designer, Automotive design, Storyboard artist, and Toy design.

Correction: table above the course requirements was corrected to show the updated units for the level 2 coursework and total units 9/9/2026

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