Study the Art of Character Animation
Earn Your Degree Online
LEARN.
Start Your Path
The power of storytelling through character animation. Are you ready to bring your favorite characters to life?Acting for Animators: Experiment with traditional acting to better animate your characters. This course teaches body mechanics and challenges students to bridge their acting abilities with the characters they animate.
Character Rigging: Explore advanced rigging techniques to enforce the importance of weighting methods and distort models organically. Students learn to integrate their rigs into a production pipeline.
Animation for Games: Build animation cycles for a game character and an environment prop. Students advance to integrating custom cycles into a game engine to visualize how their character moves in real time.
CREATE.
Grab Your Gear
Animators rely on high-performing gear and software to bring their creations to life. As an animation student, the TechKit® becomes your fully-armed battle station to design out-of-this-world VFX and animations for film, TV and video games. The Animation TechKit® includes your own MSI GE76 Raider laptop with Unreal Engine, Python, Autodesk Maya, Pixologic ZBrush and Nuke.* You will also receive the entire Adobe Creative Suite, as well as a Wacom 16 Cintiq, Stealth Trooper Backpack, Gaming Mouse and Headset.
Our industry-experienced instructors curated a selection of Animation textbooks to help you get inspired to create your future as an animator in entertainment.*
FUTURE.
Animate Your Future
Our alumni are in the industry doing amazing things! Whether animating an iconic battle scene for a blockbuster or working on projects for companies like Blizzard and Dreamworks, they are building their place in the industry. From Oscar® nominations to indie game releases, everyone’s path to success is different. What will yours be?
