This course is for anybody curious about the mechanics behind the media seen on devices. If you're a self-trained designer, photographer, CG artist, audio mixer, video editor, or motion graphics artist, you have a good grounding in the tools you use, and you know the results you want, but you might not know how the technology you're using really works. It's a transformational moment when you gain a deeper understanding of the way digital images, graphics, video, and audio work. Every day you're adjusting pixels and sound waves that have been captured, created, or rendered digitally. Grasping what is really happening when you work with digital media allows you to improve your skills faster, communicate effectively, and collaborate more easily.