Academics Master

Course Flowchart


Semester 1Semester 2SummerSemester 3Semester 4
DMAE 7110
Principle Production Workshop
DMAE 7150
Interactive Production Team I
DMAE 7175
Digital Media Internship
DMAE 7250
Interactive Production Team II
DMAE 7270
Capstone Production Team
DMAE 7115
Digital Media Production & Project Management
DMAE 7155
Advanced Programming & Digital Art I
DMAE 7255
Advanced Programming & Digital Art II
DMAE 7120
Interactive Design, Rapid Prototyping & Innovation
Elective 1
Elective 2
Elective 3

*Project based classes

**Focus area classes

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Course Descriptions


DMAE 7110 Principle Production Workshop - (3 hours)

Prerequesite: none

Team-based collaborative production using tools and software development methods related to professional digital fields

DMAE 7115 Digital Media Production & Project Management - (4 hours)

Prerequesite: none

Production and management principles encompassing the entire project cycle are evaluated and applied

DMAE 7120 Interactive Design, Rapid Prototyping & Innovation - (4 hours)

Prerequesite: none

Production and management principles encompassing the entire project cycle are evaluated and applied

DMAE 7150 Interactive Production Team I - (3 hours)

Prerequesite: DMAE 7110 or equivalent

Contemporary design challenges are analyzed and executed in a team-based collaborative unit. Focus is management and execution of the entire development cycle

DMAE 7155 Advanced Programming & Digital Art I - (5 hours)

Prerequesite: DMAE 7120 or equivalent

Production and management principles encompassing the entire project cycle are evaluated and applied

DMAE 7175 Digital Media Internship - (3 hours)

Prerequesite: Consent of instructor

Hands-on experience in a professional work environment on a relevant digital media project

DMAE 7250 Interactive Production Team II - (3 hours)

Prerequesite: DMAE 7150 or equivalent

Interactive team-based collaborative production based on an external client’s needs and specifications

DMAE 7255 Advanced Programming & Digital Art II - (5 hours)

Prerequesite: DMAE 7155 or equivalent

Prepare students for work as a professional software developer or artist in the digital media field

DMAE 7270 Capstone Production Team - (6 hours)

Prerequesite: DMAE 7250 or equivalent

Team-based collaborative production that synthesizes a culmination of skills and knowledge through an approved final project

Available for Classwork

This is a list of the most used software and hardware and is being added to regularly. The DMAE labs are all accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We also have license servers set up for the majority of software to access on a personal computer from home from a VPN connection.

All computers and laptops that are given out by DMAE/CCT should have the All Machines software pre-installed. If you are needing any of the software listed in any of the labs or in On Demand can be found on Software Center on your computer without admin rights.

All Machines

DMAE Lab, XR Classroom, XR Studio, Digital Twin Lab, Digital Humans Lab, Laptops

  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Substance 3D Painter
  • Autodesk Maya 2025_1_ML
  • Blender 5.2
  • Box
  • Epic Games Launcher
  • Epic Unreal 5.8.X
  • Git
  • Godot 4.8.X
  • Google Chrome
  • Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft Teams for Work
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Code
  • P4 One
  • Perforce P4V

DMAE Lab

DMC 2026

  • Davinci Resolve
  • Epic Games Unreal Engine 5.6.X
  • Maxon Zbrush
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (NOT THE LATEST VERSION!)
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer .NET Desktop Development
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer .NET Multi-Platform App UI development
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Desktop Development with C++
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Under Gaming: Game development with C++
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer: C++ address sanitizer
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer: C++ profiling tools
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer: Windows 11 SDK
  • MicrosoftVisual Studio Installer: Unreal Engine Installer
  • Nuke 16
  • Rider
  • SideFX Houdini 22 (and license server update)

XR Classroom

DMC 3051

  • Davinci Resolve
  • Foundry Nuke 16
  • Maxon Zbrush
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (NOT THE LATEST VERSION!)
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer .NET Desktop Development
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer .NET Multi-Platform App UI development
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Desktop Development with C++
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Under Gaming: Game development with C++
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer: C++ address sanitizer
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer: C++ profiling tools
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer: Windows 11 SDK
  • MicrosoftVisual Studio Installer: Unreal Engine Installer
  • Rider
  • SideFX Houdini 22 (and license server update)
  • Touch Designer

XR Studio

  • 2 x Blackmagic Design UltraStudio HD Mini
  • Live FX (Assimilate)
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (NOT THE LATEST VERSION!)
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer .NET Desktop Development
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer .NET Multi-Platform App UI development
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Desktop Development with C++
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Under Gaming: Game development with C++
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer: C++ address sanitizer
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer: C++ profiling tools
  • Microsoft Visual Studio Installer: Windows 11 SDK
  • MicrosoftVisual Studio Installer: Unreal Engine Installer
  • Motive 3.0
  • NVidia Quadro Sync
  • Touch Designer

On Demand

Students can download from sotware cent4er

  • 7Zip
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe Animate
  • Adobe Audition
  • Adobe Media Encoder
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Adobe Substance 3D Designer
  • Adobe Substance 3D Modeler
  • Adobe Substance 3D Sampler
  • Adobe Substance 3D Stager
  • Adobe XD
  • Arduino
  • Assimilate LiveFX
  • Audacity
  • Autodesk 3ds Max
  • Autodesk Motion Builder
  • Autodesk Mudbox
  • Autodesk RV Desktop Media Player
  • Autodesk Sketchbook Pro
  • Cyberduck (macOS)
  • Discord
  • DJI Terra
  • DJV Imaging
  • DragonFrame
  • Duik After Effects Plugin
  • GitHub Desktop
  • Handbrake
  • Krita
  • Marmoset
  • Marvelous Designer
  • Motion Builder
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • OpenToonz
  • Pixar Renderman for Maya
  • Processing
  • Reality Scan
  • Rhino 3D
  • Shotgun Client
  • SketchUp
  • Sony Render Farm Cluent
  • SoundQ
  • Speed Tree
  • Spine 2D Pro
  • Spriter Pro
  • Steam & Oculus drivers
  • Storyboarder
  • Sublime Text
  • The Unarchiver (macOS)
  • Thinkbox Deadline Client
  • Toon Boom Premium
  • Unity
  • Wacom Drivers
  • Xcode (macOS)

Digital Twin Studio

  • ArcGIS
  • Cloud Compare
  • Epic Games Unreal Engine 5.6.X
  • Faro Scene
  • QGIS
  • Reality Capture

Specific Machines

Talk to faculty about which computers this software should be installed on

  • Blackmagic Desktop Video 15.3.1
  • Optitrack Motive

Hardware

  • 1500 square foot Optitrack motion capture system
  • 4K cinema projector
  • 84 Roe BPv2 LED Volume
  • Access to supercomputer
  • Arago photogrammetry system
  • Audio Recording Studios
  • Cintiq Touch Screens
  • DJI Matrice 300 RTK Drone with L1 and P1 camera and lidar attachment
  • Dual 4K Monitors
  • Faro Focus Premium lidar scanner
  • Faro Freestyle II handheld scanner
  • HTC Vive
  • Oculus Quest 3
  • Red Komodo & Komodo-X 4K Cameras
  • State-of-the-art Alienware workstations