Character animation and modeling? Help me figure it out?

martinezcs
Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:28:23 +0000

A lot of colleges offer some sort of degree in technical animation but what can make it hard to find is they all use different names for the major and it can be found in different departments/colleges within each university. For example, the degree programs my daughter applied to and was accepted at and all seriously considered:
-Creative Computing at SMU
-Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication with Animation and Games Concentration at UTD
-Art with a concentration in Animation at ASU (she also considered the digital culture degree and other degrees within ASU’s Herberger School of Arts, Media and Engineering)
-Visualization at A&M (which used to be a degree program within the school of architecture but now a degree program within and the cornerstone of the newly developed school of performance, visualization, and fine arts. Still a BS though, not a BFA).

Other degrees are more consistent in terms of name of degree and content of degree program: e.g. engineering , education, psychology, nursing etc.

Here is a good resource that we used to find and learn about highly ranked animation programs:

https://www.animationcareerreview.com/articles/top-50-animation-schools-and-colleges-us-2022-college-rankings

And here is a YouTube video (6 min) about A&M’s visualization program that aired just last night on the local pbs station.

Famous for Animation: Texas A&M Visualization | Texas A&M Today