The Fusion of Digital Art, Audio, Game Design & Engineering

Art and Design College

Cogswell College, in the heart of Silicon Valley in California, is a private, WASC accredited school with over 125 years of history. We offer bachelor degree programs in Art & Design, Animation, Music Production, Audio & Software Engineering, and Game Design. Our unique project-based approach, led by industry-experienced faculty, emphasizes teamwork and collaboration between students in each program. Cogswell alumni have gone on to work on award-winning animated films and AAA video games.

Digital Art College - Animation, 3D Modeling, Concept Design, Illustration

Digital Audio School - Audio and Music Production and Audio Software Engineering

Learn to become an Entrepreneur or a Producer on a video game or animated film

Get a degree in video game design. Learn level development, character creation, scripting and more.

Get your degree in Software Engineering or learn how to become a Technical Artist.

Where Project-Based Learning Begins

On-campus studios offer students real-world experience working with industry clients while collaborating cross-functionally with peers from all programs. Supervised by faculty and industry advisors, these studios teach students a team-centered approach that mirrors real development teams of artists, animators, game designers, music specialists and project management.

Using industry-standard technology, students create a short animation combined with an interactive book for mobile platforms that will help deepen the reader’s experience. Students take the project from the beginning development phase, through pre-production, full production mode and finally post production.

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Join the industry-like studio Star Thief Studios and create an interactive book with students from all degree programs.

MediaWorks offers students a unique, project-based production experience that generates professional quality, high-impact audio visual pieces for real-life clients. Working under the guidance of faculty, students work collaboratively on interactive projects that involve sound design, original music, animation and video production.

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Join the audio/visual inititive MediaWorks - collaborate on projects for real world clients.

Currently the Game Studio is working with Prairie Rainbow Company to design a video game based on the company’s Rainbow Squares – a puzzle game that teaches math concepts. This partnership gives students a unique opportunity to not only develop a learning game for a real-world client but also to test the prototype in local schools.

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Create a video game with other students in an environment that mirrors real development studios.

Project X is a project-based class that allows students to work within every aspect of animation film production. To date, Project X has produced three short films, The Offering (2009), Worlds Apart (2011) and Driven (2013). The films have won global acclaim and multiple awards at film festivals. Currently PX is working its fourth film.

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Project X animation studio allows students to collaborate to create short, award-winning animated films.

Animation School

There are few animation schools whose students have produced award-winning animations that are 10 minutes in length. The animation program at California-based Cogswell College is built around intensely hands-on, project-based courses that encompass biped and quadruped character, environmental, effects and experimental animation. Character animation fuses the principles of movement with believable weight, timing and anatomy to create genuine, emotive characters. Students build a foundation in 2D animation to understand the importance of storyboarding, motion arcs, squash and stretch, exaggeration and key frames. They can then translate these techniques into 3D environments to expand their skills in facial and dialogue animation, visual effects, walk cycles, in-betweens and character gaits. Seniors have the opportunity to join teams that create high-quality animated films, game development studios or interactive book projects – which is one of the best ways for students to fully develop their talents.

Audio Engineering & Music Production

Cogswell’s Audio Engineering program integrates audio technology and software engineering to prepare students for careers in the audio industry. Students begin the program with a hands-on introduction to: programming plug-ins for audio applications, techniques of digital waveform synthesis, digital signal processing, sampling, filter design, and quantization. Further into the program, audio engineering students gain experience with programming audio assets for interactive media, the design of digital FIR and IIR filters, and the design and implementation of software applications for MIDI and digital audio. In the senior audio engineering project classes, students synthesize all of the components of their study into the design and implementation of an audio application, plugin or app, or a game audio programming collaborative project.

Software Engineering

Software engineering at Cogswell College in Silicon Valley is unlike any other school. With our centralized community, engineers collaborate along-side artists, audio students and game designers – giving them the unique advantage of understanding pipeline flow and how to effectively communicate with teammates. Our software engineering degree programs expose students to programming and scripting languages such as C++, Java, Lua, ActionScript, Perl and Python. Students build a solid foundation in hardware & software tools, data structures and algorithms, and programming within the UNIX / LINUX environments before moving on to more complex topics such as object oriented design, embedded software systems, and GUI and graphics programming. Game Design Engineering students gain experience in AI programming, mobile graphics programming, and the design and implementation of a game engine. In their senior year, engineering students have the opportunity to be an integral part of our large project courses – programming a game, creating an iPad application, or scripting for short animated films.

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The Fusion of Digital Art, Audio, Game Design & Engineering

Art and Design College

Where Project-Based Learning Begins

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