2023-2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

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 (63 credits)

INTGR 1650Visual Culture Seminar

3

IFINE 1220Color and Composition

3

IFINE 1630Drawing Intensive

3

IANIM 1250Principles of Animation 1

3

IANIM 1261Principles of Animation 2 for VFX

3

IANIM 1300Animation Seminar

3

IANIM 2350Storyboarding for Time Based Media

3

IANIM 2495Digital Animation: 2D

3

IANIM 2550Introduction to 3D

3

IANIM 2650Technical Drawing

3

IANIM 2700Mixed Reality: Non-Linear Storytelling

3

IANIM 2750Rendering & Lighting for Virtual Space

3

IANIM 29003D Character Animation

3

IDFLM 2220Digital Filmmaking Techniques 3

3

IANIM 36253D Physics & Simulation

3

IANIM 3875Tracking + Rotoscoping

3

IDFLM 3500Compositing & Visual Effects

3

IANIM 4200Business of Animation

3

IANIM 4300Creating Worlds

3

IANIM 4320Set Extension

3

IANIM 4880External Internship Animation + VFX

3

or

IANIM 4882Internal Internship Animation + VFX

3

VFX Major Elective (3 credits)

Choose one:

IANIM 2850Organic Modeling

3

IANIM 3665Props for Film & Practical Effects

3

IANIM 3825Rigging & Skinning

3

IANIM 3950Motion Capture

3

VFX Major Elective (3 credits)

Choose one:

IANIM 3320Procedural Modeling

3

IANIM 3350Art Directed Destruction

3

IANIM 3455Advanced Stop Motion Animation

3

IANIM 4625Advanced 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 2465The History of Women, Gender, Race and Animation

3

IAHIS 2500History of the Moving Image

3

IAHIS 2750Digital Culture

3

Art History Elective (3 credits)

Choose one: 

IAHIS 2460History of Animation

3

IAHIS 2625Visual Narratives Across Time and Media

3

Advanced Art History Elective (3 credits)

Choose one: 

IAHIS 3354Art Now

3

IAHIS 3900Alternating Currents: Experimental Film & Video

3