SYLLABUS

DES 303
Advanced Digital Design

USC Roski School of Art & Design
Fall 2025 
Harris Hall, Room 112D
Thursday 9:00 – 11:40 AM

Instructor: Breanna Browning
Office Hrs: By appointment
Email: breanna.browning@usc.edu

OVERVIEW SCHEDULE 
CLASS MATERIALS
RESOURCES

I will continue to update and add to this page as the semester progresses. Check back for new links.

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SOFTWARE (Required)

• Adobe CC (DES students have free licenses. If you do not have one, please ask me about it.) 
  
• More to come... 
  

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AI TOOLS (Chat + LLMs) 

• ChatGPT
• Anthropic Claude
• Google Gemini
• More advnaced generation OpenAI Playground
  
• Guide for Prompt Engineering
  
• Guide for Prompt Engineering from OpenAI directly

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GENRATIVE IMAGE (basic)

• ChatGPT - automatically runs Dall-e + others  
• Midjourney - use via Discord or WebUI (see the Midjouney prompting guide)
• Dall-e-2 (older) 
  
• Gemini
  
• Meta AI
  
• Dream Studio by Stablility.ai 
  
• Adobe Firefly - best if you have a reference photo 
  
• UI for running Stable Diffusion

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GENERATIVE IMAGE (Advanced)

• Classic Automatic 1111 Stability on Github and Install guide (older tool now, but fun to play with if you’re proficient in the simple UI image generations) 
  
• For advnaced image (and video) generation - ComfyUI - SOTA tool as of Sept 2024
• For ComfyUI manager you’ll need: https://git-scm.com/download/win and https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Manager?tab=readme-ov-file
• oldie but goodie - TensorFlow Deep Dream collab notebook

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GENERATIVE VIDEO

• Runway.ml 
  
• Veo3 by Google 
• OpenAI Sora 
  
• RunwayML
  
• Kling AI
  
• Adobe Firefly Video 
  
• Pika Labs 
  
• Moonvalley AI 
  
• Invideo AI 
  
• More coming soon... 
  

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AI CODE EDITORS

• Cursor
• More to come...

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OTHER

• PureRef - super clean platform for collecting reference images (not collaborative) 
  
• More to come... 

© Breanna Browning 2025