Game Art and Animation (BA)

GAME ART AND ANIMATION DEGREE

CREATING 2D AND 3D ART FOR VIDEO GAME PLATFORMS

Bring to life your vision of how games should look, move and feel with a degree in Game Art and Animation from University of Advancing Technology (UAT). It’s a new world of game creation propelling an exciting new realm of interaction and creativity that elevates the player experience. UAT’s computer animation degree is essential to advancing it into new dimensions of game play.

Make your mark in the game industry with the power of art and technology combined. Students apply their passion for art to create and animate environments, characters, textures, props and collision objects utilizing 2D and 3D platforms. They also develop the complex technical skills that make games not only move but also interact with the player to achieve a heightened sense of reality not to mention a more enjoyable – and educational – experience.

Students in UAT’s computer animation degree program master all levels of game development to create 3D art assets for multiple video game platforms. They learn to incorporate the artistic principles used in 3D video games art asset creation such as color theory, lighting, shading, anatomy, life drawing, perspective, scene staging, modeling low polygon and high polygon, 3D mesh topology, texturing, rigging, hand key character and prop animations, as well as motion capture and facial animation.

With a respected degree in animation from UAT, students are prepared to enter the game industry as a character artist modeler, texture artist, character artist animator, environment artist modeler, environment artist animator, mechanical mesh modeler, mechanical mesh animator or rigger.

The increased demand for animation and visual effects in games makes this respected animation degree more powerful. A degree in animation from UAT prepares graduates with the creative, technical, time management and collaboration skills employers are looking for. In fact, UAT’s Synchronic Learning Model promotes cross-collaboration across all other UAT game studies degrees, including Game Design, Game Programming, Virtual Reality, and Game Production and Management to provide a well-rounded and immersive learning experience. Students work with professors and industry leaders on innovative, complex projects that integrate the principles of art and design. The result is impressive portfolios compiled by prepared graduates.

Combining art and technology in this animation degree is not new at UAT. While UAT has been recognized since the dawn of the computer age as one of the few 100 percent STEM-based universities in the nation, the private technology University has always included the arts and humanities in curricula. This distinctive blend prepares graduates to join the rapidly growing STEAM industry.

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