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B.F.A. in 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 these four options:

  • 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 these three options:

  • CINE 205 Reading Films
  • CINE 275 History of Cinema
  • ARLH or ARTH elective
  • General education elective
  • Mathematics/natural sciences elective

Major curriculum: 80 hours

  • ANIM 190 Survey of Animation: Professional Pathways
  • ANIM 223 Historical Adventures in Cinematic Animation
  • ANIM 390 Animation Business and Professional Practices
  • Select one of these two options:

  • ANIM 395 Collaborative Experiences in Animation
  • SANM 560 Collaborative Experiences in the School of Animation and Motion
  • ANIM 408 Animated Capstone Film: Preproduction
  • ANIM 448 Animated Capstone Film: Production
  • ANIM 488 Animated Capstone Film: Postproduction
  • Select one of these three options:

  • ANIM 479 Undergraduate Internship
  • 500-level SCADpro elective
  • Business-focused elective
  • ANIM, ARVR, DWRI, FILM, GAME, ILLU, ITGM, MOME, SANM, SEQA, SNDS, STEC, or VFX elective

Select one concentration to complete the major curriculum:

  • 2D animation

  • ANIM 202 Core Principles of 2D Animation
  • ANIM 272 2D Animation: Character Set-up and Pipeline Creation
  • ANIM 332 2D Animation: Character Performance Essentials
  • ANIM 352 2D Animation Effects: Mastering the Elements
  • ANIM 372 Collaborative Experiences: 2D Production Pipeline
  • ANIM 382 2D Animation: Digital Production and Compositing
  • ANIM 402 2D Animation: Expressive Character Acting
  • 3D character animation

  • ANIM 253 Core Principles of 3D Character Animation
  • ANIM 303 3D Character Animation: Performance Essentials
  • ANIM 313 Collaborative Experiences: 3D Production Pipeline
  • ANIM 323 3D Character Animation: Expressive Character Acting
  • ANIM 353 3D Character Animation: Creatures and Quadrupeds
  • ANIM 383 3D Character Animation: Performance Through Dialogue
  • ANIM 423 3D Character Animation: Believability and Nuance
  • Storytelling and concept development

  • ANIM 275 Core Principles of Animated Storytelling and Concept Development
  • ANIM 315 Story and Concept: Narrative Principles for Animation
  • ANIM 325 Story and Concept: Visual Design and World Building
  • ANIM 335 Story and Concept: Animation Character and Creature Design
  • ANIM 345 Story and Concept: Storyboarding and Staging
  • ANIM 365 Story and Concept: Seeding the Narrative
  • ANIM 385 Story and Concept: Concept Development for Animation

Additional electives: 20 hours

  • Free elective
  • Free elective
  • Free elective
  • Free elective

Total course of study: 180 hours