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The BFA in Visual Effects educates students for modern forms of entertainment and commercial media. This program provides an immersive experience with the tools, processes, creative skills, and collaborative workflows used to create and produce professional quality 3D models, animations, simulated effects, and composites for film, television, animation, video games, and interactive media.
With more than 60 years of experience in Cinema, CCH offers a variety of required and elective classes sure to pique your interest.
Visual effects and digital arts are essential to modern entertainment and media. CCH’s on-campus visual effects program allows you to interact and collaborate in person with your classmates and faculty. Enjoy small class sizes that maximize interaction with faculty. Work on real world projects as you develop an extensive career ready portfolio.
Columbia College Hollywood’s online visual effects program is for students looking for the flexibility of learning remotely. Students have access to the same professional tools with the benefits of online learning. Technology allows students to interact, collaborate, and learn with classmates and instructors.
The BFA in Visual Effects program immerses you in the skills and theory you’ll need to build your career in a variety of industries, including entertainment, gaming, marketing, advertising, and education. Most important, you’ll acquire the essential, practical skills, experience, and knowledge you’ll need to create your own entrepreneurial career path in the vast arena of visual effects and animation.
The program is designed to accelerate you into your career in as few as 3 years. CCH offers a Career Accelerator Scholarship to help students in this process.
The Animation emphasis curriculum is designed to reflect the real world of the animation industry. Discover the process of creating a sense of life in characters, shapes, and environments through motion over time. Learn the fundamentals of animating characters, creatures and environments using industry-standard computer graphics tools and technology.
Compositing is the art of combining live action footage with digitally created characters, creatures, environments and anything else imaginable. Students use industry standard compositing software to add digital models, green screened actors, miniatures, computer-generated imagery, or painted environments to live action scenes.
Use a wide variety of sculpting software and industry-standard polygonal modeling tools. Learn to create forms with clean, efficient polygonal edge loops, unwrap and add color, and bump metallic and surface roughness for use in visual effects for film, television, video, games, and virtual reality environments.
Upon successfully completing the BFA in Visual Effects, students will be able to:
Columbia College Hollywood’s Student Services team works diligently with students to provide them with opportunities to gain valuable industry experience.