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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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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