Visual Effects and Technical Animation, BFA

Foundation Studies
FOUN 110Design Thinking and Process5
FOUN 111Sketching and Drawing5
FOUN 112Color in Context5
FOUN 113Creative Collaboration Lab5
FOUN 220Drawing: Light and Shadow5
Select one of the following:5
Figure Drawing: Gesture and Movement
Storyboarding
Time Based Design: Story, Sound, and Movement
Inventing Environments
General Education
COMM 105Speaking of Ideas5
BUSI 110Business I: Fundamentals5
CTXT 121Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives5
CTXT 122Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities5
ENGL 123Ideas to Ink: Critical Concepts in Academic Writing5
DIGI 130Digital Communication5
ENGL 142Foundations of Story5
Select one of the following:5
Reading Films
History of Cinema
Select one of the following:5
20th-century Art
Modern Architecture After 1900
Mathematics/Natural Sciences Elective5
Major Curriculum
VFX 101Survey of Visual Effects5
VPRD 170Survey of Virtual Production5
VFX 210Introduction to 3D Computer Graphics5
VFX 220Compositing5
VFX 230Visual Effects-based Cinematography5
VFX 260Introduction to Scripting for Visual Effects5
VFX 316Digital Lighting and Rendering5
VFX 350Procedural Modeling and Animation Techniques5
Select one of the following:5
Collaborative Experiences in Animation
Collaborative Experiences in Visual Effects
Collaborative Experiences in the School of Animation and Motion
Select one of the following:5
Animated Capstone Film: Preproduction
Concept and Preproduction for Visual Effects
VFX 409Professional Development for Visual Effects5
Select one of the following:5
Animated Capstone Film: Production
Visual Effects Studio I
VFX 488Visual Effects Studio II5
Select one of the following:5
Undergraduate Internship
500-level SCADpro Elective
Business-Focused Elective
ANIM, ARVR, DWRI, FILM, GAME, ITGM, MOME, PROD, SANM, SFLM, SNDS, STEC, THED, or VFX elective5
ANIM, ARVR, DWRI, FILM, GAME, ITGM, MOME, PROD, SANM, SFLM, SNDS, STEC, THED, or VFX elective5
Additional Electives
Free Elective5
Free Elective5
Free Elective5
Free Elective5
Total Hours180