Unleash your creative energies and discover how to turn your passion into a lucrative career! Leeward’s Digital Media program combines a solid foundation of art and design with the practical technical skills needed to explore and express ideas in today’s multimedia world. You’ll experience real world adventures where tomorrow’s solutions are today’s challenges.

You’ll get integrated digital media training in art theory, web development, computer graphics, non-linear digital video, streaming media and web animation, motion graphics, media authoring, and 2D and 3D animation. You’ll learn how to stay current with the fast changing trends in this continually changing field in online, print and interactive media.

Digital media specialists are in demand in almost every type of business. Leeward’s program helps you develop the skills required for a variety of digital media careers, in such diverse fields as multimedia industries, graphic design, education, advertising, computer science, television, film, and corporate communications.

The Associate in Science in Digital Media Production provides creative individuals with the art and design training needed to explore and express ideas using leading-edge technology and skill-sets. Students receive integrated digital media training in one of five specializations: Character Animation, Creative Media, Digital Video for the Web, Internet Publishing and Video Games. Students become life-long learners, developing the skills required for a vast array of digital media careers, including web design and development, multimedia-production, digital video production, corporate communications, two-dimensional and three-dimensional animation, video games and interactive media.

• Specialization Animation And Motion Graphics:
  Produce 2-D and 3-D animation by generating ideas using independent judgment, creativity, and computer software for content creation.
• Specialization Creative Media:
  Demonstrate competence in the production and processing of images with current electronic tools and the application of electronic media to all areas of artistic and commercial new media art.
• Specialization Digital Photography:
  Produce attention-grabbing communication design for film, television, music videos, and the Web while meeting industry standard specifications.
• Specialization Digital Video for the Web:
  Create design prototypes, including graphic design, site navigation, and layout of content, for various Web sites and perform maintenance and updates to existing Web sites.
• Specialization Internet Publishing:
  Design core features of video games. Specify innovative game and role-play mechanics, story lines, and character biographies. Create and maintain design documentation. Guide and collaborate with production staff to produce games as designed.

• Program Learning Outcomes; in addition to acquiring the competencies required for Associate in Science degrees, upon successful completion of this program graduates will be able to:
  • Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills for project planning and use of necessary collaborative skills.
  • Communicate clearly and concisely, visually, verbally and in writing, using techniques appropriate for the intended audience.
  • Identify and explain standards of professionalism as they pertain to personal and work-related endeavors.
  • Exhibit a portfolio of projects related to the chosen specialization at the conclusion of the Associate in Science degree work.

For more info about Leeward CC’s program, please visit their program site.