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EFFECTS AT ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY

Degrees Offered
AA, BFA, MA, MFA
Online, On campus,
Virtual

Student work by Seo Ryong Jaw

StudioX
Our StudioX program
allows you to work on film

OF
Student work by Kim Chaiwon productions with real
clients, and collaborate
rLAB
with artists, supervisors,
The rLAB uses state-of-
and filmmakers in a profes-
the-art remote desktop
sional setting. This
technology and allows
Student work by Seoyoung ‘Cindy’ Choi provides you with invalu-
you to transform your
able hands-on studio
own devices into the

Professional prep for work

experience, which is a
same powerful machines
huge plus for employers.
used by artists at the

in top animation and visual

big studios—equipped StudioX films such as
with major VFX soft- Fruitvale Station, Beasts
ware (Maya, Nuke, Mari, of The Southern Wild, and
Substance, Zbrush, etc.)
—available anytime from
effects studios. Strawberry Mansion
have all played at
Our curriculum of specialized tracks encompassing every department in the
anywhere in the world. Sundance Film Festival.
studio pipeline (Concept Art, Modeling, Rigging, Animation, Look Development,
With the rLAB there’s
Lighting, Effects, and Compositing) prepares you for work in top animation and Working at StudioX gives
no need to purchase a
visual effects studios. you amazing original
high-powered computer,
content for your demo
nor is there AAU offers instructors with decades of studio experience, world-class facilities
reel and you get to see
any need to buy tons accessible from anywhere in the world, and hands-on experience in real film
your name in the credits
of expensive software. productions through our StudioX program. Upon graduation, you’ll leave with
of films!
All you need is a stable the knowledge, the tools, and the experience you’ll need to work at the best
internet connection. studios—and a demo reel to prove it.

Defy the Ordinary, Create the Extraordinary

ANIMATION &
VISUAL EFFECTS
ACADEMY
Student work by Jeongmin Lee

OF Our Alumni Work at:

• Weta Digital
Student work by Sol Park • Dreamworks

ART
• Disney
A Sample of Courses • Pixar
• Cinematics for • Nickelodeon
Animation & VFX • Industrial Light & Magic
• 3D Modeling & • Marvel
Animation for VFX • Sony Pictures Animation
Student work by Lizzie Zhang, Wishing Box, a StudioX production
• Rotoscoping
• Digital Painting for
Careers In Animation and Special Effects
VFX Artists
Whether you’re into animation or visual effects, our courses will teach you the skills
• Storyboarding
required to create a professional portfolio of work that can help launch a career.
Principles
• Storyboarding 4: TV/ 2D Animator Character Animator animals, plants, buildings, Stop Motion Artist
Live Action/VFX A 2D animator creates A character animator in and cars. Models are Good with your hands?
• Stop Motion images by either hand- traditional, 3D, or stop built so that they can With frame-by-frame
Puppet Animation drawing each frame, or motion is concerned be moved, painted, and manipulation, a stop-
• Animal and digitally manipulating flat with the performance on lit properly. motion artist creates
Creature Animation media for games, televi- screen. An understanding a performance using
• Head Sculpting and Producer
sion, the web, or films. of timing, movement of posable puppets, props,
Facial Expression The producer realizes
humans and animals, and sets.
• Character Animation 3D Animator the director’s creative
and acting is essential
A 3D animator controls vision by building a strong
to bringing characters
What We Teach the movement in com- crew. They champion
to life.
• Storyboarding puter-graphic imagery creative, maintain the
• 3D Animation including characters and Modeler financials and schedule,
• Visual Effects inanimate objects such as Modelers digitally build influence tech innovation,
• Animation Producing robots or cars. objects in a 3D environ- and oversee the adminis-
• Modeling ment, including cartoon trative process.
• Rigging and realistic characters,
• Dynamics Animation
• Puppet Fabrication
• Lighting Animation
• Producing

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School of Animation & Visual Effects