Cincinnati, USA
DEGREE TYPE
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
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Introduction
Our trans-disciplinary curriculum is designed to prepare you for a future at the forefront of animation.
Infuse life with animation
The Digital Arts Animation major at the Art Academy invites students to study the compositional elements that are associated with time-based imagery, understand the language of moving images, and explore how these specific principles are manifested in 2D, 3D, and 4D compositions. Digital Arts Animation students choose from a variety of courses that allow them to focus on or broadly experiment with narrative or more graphical aspects of motion media. All classes are designed with the idea that contemporary digital media is meant to fluidly evolve, to use creative methods in conjuncture to create new imagery and more complex illusions.
Program Outcome
As a digital artist you will:
- Expand technical skills in 2D or 3D animation through the completion of projects.
- Explore resources available to research and acquire new technical and conceptual knowledge in preparation for self-directed work.
- Develop a personal visual style of animation.
- Develop and complete animation sequences.
- Acquire an understanding of the contemporary animation landscape.
- Acquire skills in sound recording in studio and field recording.
- Be able to deliver relevant narratives to a diverse audience about work that will validate, defend, or convince the audience of the best solution.
- Develop a creative relationship between video and sound.
- Acquire knowledge of sound editing in multiple software.
- Gain working knowledge of synchronism between sound and images.
- Gain a working knowledge of the technologies involved in the sound display.
- Acquire knowledge in key-frame-based animation and motion graphics using After Effects.
- Increase Video Editing skills, using Premiere Pro extensively.
- Develop sophistication in time-based composition.
- Practice different ways Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Audition, and After Effects can be used in collaboration to create a final time-based composition.
- Learn to combine animated typography, sound, and video in dynamic compositions.
Career Opportunities
Change the world with your Stylus
Many Art Academy graduates work at studios as well as corporate in-house divisions. Graduates also thrive in entrepreneurial and freelance enterprises and in related creative industries such as design, video production, and entertainment industries.
After your time at AAC, you’ll be ready to become a…
- Art Director
- Creative Director
- Stop Motion Animator
- 3d Modeler
- Compositing Artist
- Storyboard Artist
- Concept Artist
- Game Developer
- Visual Effects Artist
- Mathematical Modeler
- Texture Artist
- Web Designer
- Illustrator
- Production Artist
- Entrepreneur