Animation

Animation program from Digital Arts and Technology might help you find a position at a company creating games for the PC or for independent gaming platforms. With the skills learned from this program, you could become a texturer or modeler, a light-specialist, an entry-level animator.

• Diploma in 3D Animation
• Graphic Design
• 3D Game Artist

At Expression College for Digital Art, they take your passion seriously. Their goal is the same as yours - to hone your abilities into marketable skills. After covering the basics of design, art, and animation, you'll get right into the good stuff: 3D modeling, animation, motion capture, texture, and light compositing.

• Animation and Visual Effects
• Game Art & Design
• Motion Graphic Design

This online program can help you expand your natural artistic abilities with courses in life drawing, color theory, and 3D character sculpture. This curriculum also covers the principles of physics, anatomy, and color theory, all of which you'll take into computer animation courses where you'll create digital characters, objects, and environments.

• B.S. in Computer Animation

This online program in the digital design and animation offers you the flexibility and convenience of online learning. By enrolling in Rasmussen College's Bachelor of Science in Digital Design and Animation, students will learn how to produce great advertising, forensic animation, custom design work, home design and create commercial products.

• Bachelor of Science in Digital Design and Animation

The Post University Certificate in Game Design and Animation is geared for students who are seeking a way to enter the exciting world of game design. The curriculum provides students with the main concepts and skills needed to design 3-dimensional interactive games for entertainment.

• Game Design and Animation Certificate

Keiser University's Associate of Science degree in Graphics Design teaches commercial art that visually communicates ideas and information to a targeted audience. Contemporary graphic designers use computers configured as graphics workstations to create works containing imagery and text for traditional print mediums and electronic delivery systems such as CD-ROM and the Internet.

• Master's in Motion Graphic Design

The curriculum is presented in 'modules', which allows an initial broad knowledge base. Your training as a digital animator begins with the fundamentals, achieved through hands-on practice using the most up to date technology. Alias/ Wavefront Maya 3D software assists in the creation of 3D models, animations, and scenes. Emphasis is placed on practical, real-world application of their skills while not neglecting the fundamentals of concepting, composition, and figure drawing.

• 3D Animation

The Media Arts & Animation program begins with a foundation in drawing, color, character design and computer applications. Under the guidance of an industry-experienced faculty, you'll examine advanced 2-D and 3-D animation principles as well as story development, background design, scenic layout and special effects.

• Associate of Science in Graphic Design
• Bachelor of Science in Animation & Media Arts
• Bachelor of Science in Game Art & Design
• Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design

This program will give you hands-on experience on the same equipment used by professionals as well as a portfolio of work that will help you get a job after graduation. Animation is a blend of art and technology, those working in the field will not only require creativity and good visualization skills, but also specialized training in industry-relevant design software and digital media equipment.

• Bachelor in Animation