BFA Visual Effects (VFX) - 120 credits

VFX Major Requirements

For a complete list of the core General Education curriculum please navigate to: College of Art & Design General Education 

VFX Studio + Seminar Requirements (66 credits)

INTGR 1650	Visual Culture Seminar	3
INTGR 1665	Image in Context	3
IFINE 1220	Color and Composition	3
IFINE 1630	Drawing Intensive	3
IANIM 1250	Principles of Animation 1	3
IANIM 1261	Principles of Animation 2 for VFX	3
IANIM 1300	Animation Seminar	3
IANIM 2350	Storyboarding for Time Based Media	3
IANIM 2495	Digital Animation: 2D	3
IANIM 2550	Introduction to 3D	3
IANIM 2650	Technical Drawing	3
IANIM 2700	Mixed Reality: Non-Linear Storytelling	3
IANIM 2750	Rendering & Lighting for Virtual Space	3
IANIM 2900	3D Character Animation	3
IDFLM 2220	Editing Intensive	3
IANIM 3625	3D Physics & Simulation	3
IANIM 3875	Tracking + Rotoscoping	3
IDFLM 3500	Compositing & Visual Effects	3
IANIM 4200	Business of Animation	3
IANIM 4300	Creating Worlds	3
IANIM 4320	Set Extension	3
IANIM 4882	Internal Internship Animation + VFX	3
IANIM 4885	Animation Internship Seminar	1

VFX Major Elective (3 credits)

Choose one:

IANIM 2850	Organic Modeling	3
IANIM 3665	Props for Film & Practical Effects	3
IANIM 3825	Rigging & Skinning	3
IANIM 3950	Motion Capture	3

VFX Major Elective (3 credits)

Choose one:

IANIM 3320	Procedural Modeling	3
IANIM 3350	Art Directed Destruction	3
IANIM 3455	Advanced Stop Motion Animation	3
IANIM 4625	Advanced Rigging	3

Studio Electives (6 credits)

Choose any two 3.0 credit studio electives from any LA+D department with prefixes IANIM, IDESN, IDFLM, IFINE, IGAME, IILLU, INTDS, and IPHOT for which you meet the pre-requisites

 

	Studio Elective	3
	Studio Elective	3

Art History Requirements (9 credits)

IAHIS 2465	The History of Women, Gender, Race and Animation	3
IAHIS 2500	History of the Moving Image	3
IAHIS 2750	Digital Culture	3

Art History Elective (3 credits)

Choose one: 

IAHIS 2460	History of Animation	3
IAHIS 2625	Visual Narratives Across Time and Media	3

Advanced Art History Elective (3 credits)

Choose one: 

IAHIS 3354	Art Now	3
IAHIS 3900	Alternating Currents: Experimental Film & Video	3