Arch 423 523 is a small workshop/seminar that explores moviemaking through exercises in computer animation. Approximately five independently developed short animations constitute the work of the term culminating in a one to five minute time-length final movie project. It is anticipated that an interdisciplinary group of students admitted to the seminar will bring perspectives from across the arts and sciences, design and engineering. Movie projects may range in creative subject areas.

An in-depth exploration of NURBS three-dimensional modeling and rendering will be the basis for representing built and natural environments, sculpting characters and creating complex geometrical forms. Subject areas for individual projects may range from short narrative movies to the analysis of mico-scale environments or larger scale architectural and landscape architectural settings. The work of the seminar will be informed by screenings of student work and of other movies. Discussion of perceptual phenomenon will provide a framework for the development and critique of individual work.