Art Institute Programs & Locations-USA & Canada

You’re imaginative, artistic, and want a career that will put your ideas to work. You’re looking for a school where people embrace innovation - a place that integrates design, media arts, culinary arts, and fashion into a creative community led by experienced instructors. With 130 program offerings, 32 locations, computer labs, career planning, and job placement assistance, you’ll find The Art Institutes is just what you need to get into a career in the creative and applied arts. We offer bachelor’s, associate’s, and master’s degrees, as well as diploma and certificate programs.

3-D Animation Principles & Techniques Program

Animation is part acting, part storytelling, and part visual art. In the 3-D Animation Principles & Techniques program, you'll study both electronic arts and traditional animation skills as you learn how to bring characters to life. Coursework focuses on realistic movement in 3-D digital environments and collaboration within a group. Graduates are prepared to seek entry-level employment such as work in 3-D character animation, modeling, storyboarding, and special effects.

Animation Program

Animation involves bringing artwork and characters to life with such precision that they truly seem real. Animation is part acting, part storytelling, and part visual art - it's a mix of both electronic arts and traditional animation skills. You'll study methods to create realistic movement in 3-D digital environments, and collaborate within a team environment to gain practical experience. Graduates are prepared to seek entry-level employment such as 3-D character animator, modeler, and storyboarder.

Media Arts & Animation Program

An animator is a highly skilled and specialized visual communicator who combines artistic talent with technological ability to create impressions in a moving image environment. A student becomes an artist first, developing a strong foundation of drawing, design, and illustration in order to produce traditional 2D formats. From this, the student begins to translate his or her artistic skills into computer generated 3D formats that make characters and objects come alive. Corporations, legal firms, medical facilities, industrial organizations, and film studios are only a few of the many industries that use animation.

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Visual Effects & Motion Graphics Program

In the Bachelor of Science program you can learn how to use your creativity to produce attention-grabbing communication design for film, television, and the Web. At graduation, you'll be prepared for entry-level positions such as production assistant, assistant designer, visual effect specialist, broadcast design assistant, and more.

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