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B.F.A. in visual effects

Available at:
- Atlanta
——萨凡纳

Foundation studies: 30 hours

  • DRAW 100 Drawing I: Form and Space
  • DSGN 100 Design I: Elements and Organization
  • DRAW 101 Drawing II: Composition and Media
  • DSGN 101 Color: Theory and Application
  • Select one of these three options:

  • DSGN 102 Design II: 3D Form in Space
  • DRAW 200 Life Drawing I
  • DRAW 240 Inventing Environments
  • Select one of these two options:

  • DRAW 206 Drawing for Storyboarding
  • DSGN 208 Storyboarding Essentials

General education: 55 hours

  • COMM 105 Speaking of Ideas
  • BUSI 110 Business I: Fundamentals
  • CTXT 121 Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives
  • CTXT 122 Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities
  • ENGL 123 Ink to Ideas: Critical Concepts in Literature and Writing
  • DIGI 130 Digital Communication
  • ENGL 142 Foundations of Story
  • Select one of these two options:

  • CINE 205 Reading Films
  • CINE 275 History of Cinema
  • Select one of these two options:

  • ARTH 207 20th-century Art
  • ARLH 208 Modern Architecture After 1900
  • BUSI 220 Business II: Economic Principles
  • 数学/ natural sciences elective

Major curriculum: 75 hours

  • VSFX 101 Survey of Visual Effects
  • VSFX 130 Visual Effects-based Cinematography
  • VSFX 160 Introduction to Visual Effects Programming
  • VSFX 210 Digital Visual Effects
  • VSFX 270 Compositing
  • Select one of these two options:

  • VSFX 310 Matte Painting
  • VSFX 316 Digital Lighting and Rendering
  • VSFX 319 Programming Models and Shaders I
  • VSFX 350 Procedural Modeling and Animation Techniques
  • VSFX 406 Concept Development for Visual Effects
  • VSFX 408 Visual Effects Studio I
  • VSFX 409 Professional Development for Visual Effects
  • VSFX 448 Visual Effects Studio II
  • Select one of these three options:

  • VSFX 479 Undergraduate Internship
  • 500-level SCADpro elective
  • Business-focused elective
  • ANIM, ARVR, DWRI, FILM, ITGM, MOME, PROD, SANM, SFLM, SNDS, STEC, THED, or VSFX elective
  • ANIM, ARVR, DWRI, FILM, ITGM, MOME, PROD, SANM, SFLM, SNDS, STEC, THED, or VSFX elective

Additional electives: 20 hours

  • Free elective
  • Free elective
  • Free elective
  • Free elective

Total course of study: 180 hours