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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 
  • 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
  • Select one of the following:

  • CINE 205 Reading Films
  • CINE 275 History of Cinema
  • 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
  • Select one of the following:

  • ANIM 395 Collaborative Experiences in Animation
  • VFX 395 Collaborative Experiences in Visual Effects
  • 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
  • Select one of the following:

  • ANIM 448 Animated Capstone Film: Production
  • VFX 448 Visual Effects Studio I
  • VFX 488 Visual Effects Studio II
  • 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

Total course of study: 180 hours