Enhance Your
Media Arts & Animation
Skills
The individuals who excel at Media Arts & Animation entertain us. They amaze us. Oftentimes they inspire us. To reach that level, to impact your audience that way requires advanced training and education.
The Media Arts & Animation Bachelor’s Degree program at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh - Online Division is designed to give students those skills and training to fill the world with their ideas and their passion. To reach that level, courses in this program begin with a foundation in drawing, color, character design and computer applications.
Under the guidance of an industry-experienced faculty, students examine advanced 2-D animation and 3-D animation principles, as well as story development, background design, scenic layout and special effects. They will also have an opportunity to work with program specific software such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Adobe After Effects®, and Autodesk® 3Ds Max®.
At graduation, students will have an individualized digital portfolio to showcase their creative skills in 2-D design and 3-D design techniques and abilities in order to pursue entry-level opportunities in a range of areas including Computer-Generated Lighting, Compositing and Rendering, Storyboard Artists, Texture Artists, Computer Modelers and Computer-Generated Special Effects Artists.
Career Portrait
Acccording to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, “Demand for multimedia artists and animators will increase as consumers continue to demand more realistic video games, movie and television special effects, and 3D animated movies. Additional job openings will arise from an increasing need for computer graphics in the growing number of mobile technologies.
The demand for animators is also increasing in alternative areas such as scientific research and design services. Some lower priority animation has been offshored, negatively affecting employment of animators.”
Accreditation
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE).