Program Overview

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3D Visualization Option - 3D Digital Design BFA

Overview

RIT’s 3D design visualization degree emphasizes the creation and simulation of environments and objects for virtual spaces for a growing number of real-world opportunities.

Why Study Digital Visualization at RIT

• 3D Visualization Lecturers: 3D Visualization professionals are invited to RIT to lead lectures, discussions, and demos that give you an informed industry perspective.
• Industry Networking: Take part in Creative Industry Day, which allows you to connect with professionals in your field of study.
• Strong Career Paths: Alumni of the 3D visualization option can be found designing solutions to a broad range of challenges at top companies around the world in medicine, robotics, and other fields.
• STEM-OPT Visa Eligible: The STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) program allows full-time, on-campus international students on an F-1 student visa to stay and work in the U.S. for up to three years after graduation.

3D Visualization Option Curriculum

From your first day in 3D design visualization, you’ll learn the design software professionals use for real-world digital design. You will also have the opportunity to:

• Use the computer labs in the College of Art and Design, which will provide you with access to professional-level 3D and animation software
• Collaborate with engineers, musicians, scientists, animators, and medical professionals, putting your 3D design abilities to use before you even graduate

Our digital visualization degree teaches you how to combine traditional design skills with the aesthetic and technical expertise to create virtual elements featured in TV and movies, virtual worlds, motion and broadcast graphics, and instructional multimedia. The 3D design visualization option also teaches skills such as:

• Data visualizations
• Augmented reality
• Medical and scientific simulations
• Architectural and engineering modeling
• Simulation for synthetic data generation
• Machine learning

Careers and Experiential Learning

Cooperative Education and Internships

What’s different about an RIT education? It’s the career experience you gain by completing cooperative education and internships with top companies in every single industry. You’ll earn more than a degree. You’ll gain real-world career experience that sets you apart.

Co-ops and internships take your knowledge and turn it into know-how. Your art and design co-ops will provide hands-on experience that enables you to apply your artistic capabilities in dynamic professional settings while you make valuable connections between classwork and real-world applications.

Students in the 3D visualization option are strongly encouraged to complete a cooperative education or internship experience.

Creative Industry Days

Connect with Design Industry Leaders

RIT’s Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education hosts Creative Industry Days, which connects students majoring in art, design, film and animation, photography, and select computing majors with companies, organizations, creative agencies, design firms, and more. Creative Industry Days are a series of events that allow you to network with company representatives and interview directly for open co-op and full-time employment positions.

Featured Work and Profiles

• Building a Virtual Production Curriculum

Supported by MegaGrant from Epic Games, MAGIC Spell Studios has brought groundbreaking research and filmmaking techniques to RIT.

• 3D Digital Design Reel

A compilation of student work from the last few years.

• Bringing Board Games to Life

It's game night! For the 2025 installment of the RIT 3D digital design program's annual 100 Hour Project, the theme was virtual game boards. The 100 Hour Project annually challenges teams of students...

• Recent alumna receives industry recognition

Priscilla Nascimento Priscilla Nascimento ’24 (3D digital design) was recognized in the 2024 Rookie Awards, a showcase organized by The Rookies that highlights exemplary work by young creatives as judged by industry...

• 100 Hour Project - Into the Wormhole

RIT's 3D digital design program went into the wormhole with 12 teams of students designing their own corner of spacetime. The project was for the program's 100 Hour Project, an annual community...

• School of Design Reel

Samples of work from each BFA program in RIT's School of Design — 3D digital design, graphic design, industrial design, interior design and new media design.

Admissions and Financial Aid

This program is STEM designated when studying on campus and full time.

This option is part of the 3D digital design BFA. Please visit the degree program page for admission requirements.

Financial Aid and Scholarships

100% of all incoming first-year and transfer students receive aid.

RIT’s personalized and comprehensive financial aid program includes scholarships, grants, loans, and campus employment programs. When all these are put to work, your actual cost may be much lower than the published estimated cost of attendance.

Faculty

• Jennifer Indovina - Lecturer
• Shaun Foster - Professor
• David Halbstein - Associate Professor

Facilities

• 3D Digital Design World Lab
• Motion Capture Suite
• 3D Digital Design - Black Box Theater

Related News

• April 29, 2025 - Student brings photographic precision to 3D visual effects
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• February 15, 2024 - Inside the making of 'That Damn Goat,' RIT's latest video game