Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation and Digital Arts

The animation was the first moving image art and laid the groundwork for the other cinematic arts. No surprise then that it remains one of the most innovative areas of practice, paving the way for some of the most cutting edge advancements in media creation. The Bachelor of Fine Arts offers a full overview of what's going on in Animation today. Students leave the program having honed their skills as artists and with an appreciation for the media industry areas that are most in need of the type of Animation they have chosen as a specialty. Areas of concentration might include character animation, experimental animation, visual effects, 3D computer animation, scientific visualization, and interactive animation.

For time immemorial, the desire for humans to imagine and create characters, environments, and adventures has been a universal catalyst that binds people, cultures, and entire civilizations, giving us common hope, purpose and direction. It is a venerated tradition that spans time and distance, from the hand drawings in the Caves of Lascaux to the great oral tales of Homer to the vignettes transmitted on the screens of today's cell phones.

Throughout the 20th century and now in the 21st, the School of Cinematic Arts has nurtured and inspired the writers, directors, scholars, entrepreneurs, producers, animators, interactive designers, and others who have developed an unparalleled mastery in cinema, television and new media.