B.F.A. in visual effects and technical animation
Atlanta
/ Savannah
Foundation studies: 30 hours
- FOUN 110 Design Thinking and Process
- FOUN 111 Sketching and Drawing
- FOUN 112 Color in Context
- FOUN 113 Creative Collaboration Lab
- FOUN 220 Drawing: Light and Shadow
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Select one of the following:
- FOUN 230 Figure Drawing: Gesture and Movement
- FOUN 250 Storyboarding
- FOUN 251 Time Based Design: Story, Sound, and Movement
- FOUN 260 Inventing Environments
General education: 50 hours
- COMM 105 Speaking of Ideas
- BUSI 110 Business I: Fundamentals
- CTXT 121 Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives
- CTXT 122 Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities
- ENGL 123 Ideas to Ink: Critical Concepts in Academic Writing
- DIGI 130 Digital Communication
- ENGL 142 Foundations of Story
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Select one of the following:
- CINE 205 Reading Films
- CINE 275 History of Cinema
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Select one of the following:
- ARTH 207 20th-century Art
- ARLH 208 Modern Architecture After 1900
- Mathematics/Natural Sciences Elective
Major curriculum: 80 hours
- VFX 101 Survey of Visual Effects
- VPRD 170 Survey of Virtual Production
- VFX 210 Introduction to 3D Computer Graphics
- VFX 220 Compositing
- VFX 230 Visual Effects-based Cinematography
- VFX 260 Introduction to Scripting for Visual Effects
- VFX 316 Digital Lighting and Rendering
- VFX 350 Procedural Modeling and Animation Techniques
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Select one of the following:
- ANIM 395 Collaborative Experiences in Animation
- VFX 395 Collaborative Experiences in Visual Effects
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SANM 560 Collaborative Experiences in the School of
Animation and Motion -
Select one of the following:
- ANIM 408 Animated Capstone Film: Preproduction
- VFX 408 Concept and Preproduction for Visual Effects
- VFX 409 Professional Development for Visual Effects
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Select one of the following:
- ANIM 448 Animated Capstone Film: Production
- VFX 448 Visual Effects Studio I
- VFX 488 Visual Effects Studio II
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Select one of the following:
- VFX 479 Undergraduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro Elective
- Business-Focused Elective
- ANIM, ARVR, DWRI, FILM, GAME, ITGM, MOME, PROD, SANM, SFLM, SNDS, STEC, THED, or VFX elective
- ANIM, ARVR, DWRI, FILM, GAME, ITGM, MOME, PROD, SANM, SFLM, SNDS, STEC, THED, or VFX elective
Additional electives: 20 hours
- Free elective
- Free elective
- Free elective
- Free elective