Program Overview

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B.A. in Visual Effects

Description

VFX are used in live Action Movies to modify real scenes or recreate elements which cannot be recorded, to integrate fiction characters in real action productions, eliminate unwanted elements or add effects such as fire, smoke, rain… The VFX industry is in high demand for professionals and as enjoyed substantial growth due to a high consumer demand and to new platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple Tv or HBO… VFX are needed in nearly all productions for cinema, tv, series, videogames, advertising and other type of productions. During your studies you will learn through the use of professional software tools such as Nuke, Maya, Houdini, Blender amongst others, to work as an artist generating and integrating digital elements in live action productions or in videogames or animated movies.

Career Opportunities

Pursuing a Degree in Visual Effects you will be able to work as:

• Digital compositor
• Paint / Prep artist
• Roto / Matchmove artist
• Digital matte painting artist
• VFX Production Coordinator
• VFX Simulation artist
• Character FX Artist
• VFX development artist

Companies where our students work

Some of the leading companies where U-tad students and professors have worked include: MPC (The Lion King, Dumbo), Double Negative(Avengers Endgame), Framestore(Dumbo, The Jungle Book), El Ranchito(Game of Thrones), Blur Studios(Love, Death, and Robots), Ilion Animation Studios (Wonder Park), ILM(Star Wars), Sony Imageworks(Spiderman Into the Spiderverse) and Weta Digital(Lord of the Rings) , among others.

Students' Projects and Awards

• Colrun - Shortfilm
• Modelling
• Lighting, Compositing & Matte Painting

Talent Awards

Awards are the greatest recognition of consistent effort and a job well done, whether as a team or individually.

• In recent years our students have won more than 70 awards in all fields.
• Check them out!
• Our students have worked on Oscar, Bafta, Goya and other international award winning productions such as Spiderma; Into the Spiderverse, Klaus andBuñuel en el Laberinto de las Tortugas.

Students' Feedback

• 90% of our students study with us on the recommendation of friends or acquaintances who have already experienced U-tad and have become top industry professionals.

International Mobility

At U-tad, you will be able to study a portion of your degree at a top partner university through the Erasmus Program.

• To reduce any limitations, we have expanded our exchange offer through bilateral agreements with universities in America, Asia, andOceania, and Europe.
• SVA (EEUU)
• Griffith (Australia)
• ArtFX (Francia)
• Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (China)
• Falmouth University (UK)
• Haute École Albert Jacquard (Bélgica)
• Universidad de Monterrey (México)

Faculty

• Gonzalo Martín Sánchez
  • Animation Academic Coordinator
  • Audiovisual producer
• Samuel Viñolo Locubiche
  • Animation Academic Coordinator
  • Journalist and Teacher

Study Plan

Course 1

Course name	ECTS	Type	Duration
Narrative and Elements of Visual Composition	6	B	1st quarter
Mathematics and physics for visual effects	6	B	1st quarter
Principles of 3D graphics	6	B	1st quarter
Geometric Representation Systems	6	B	1st quarter
Theory and Science of Color and Light	6	B	ANNUAL
Creative Thinking	3	OB	1st quarter
Photography	6	B	2nd quarter
Fundamentals of computer architecture	3	OB	2nd quarter
3D Modeling	6	OB	2nd quarter
Fundamentals of Graphic Design and Motion Graphics	6	B	2nd quarter
Script	3	OB	2nd quarter
Project I:	3	OB	2nd quarter

Course 2

Course name	ECTS	Type	Duration
3D Preview	6	B	1st quarter
Texturing & Shading	6	B	1st quarter
History of cinema and VFX	3	OB	1st quarter
Digital editing	6	B	1st quarter
Introduction to digital composition	6	OB	1st quarter
Introduction to Programming	6	OB	ANNUAL
Lighting & render I	6	OB	2nd quarter
VFX Production and Pipelines	6	OB	2nd quarter
Rigging and Animation for VFX	6	OB	2nd quarter
Composition I	6	OB	2nd quarter
Project II:	3	OB	2nd quarter

Course 3

Course name	ECTS	Type	Duration
FX and Simulation I	6	OB	1st quarter
Scripting for Composition	6	OB	1st quarter
Composition II	6	OB	1st quarter
Matte Painting	6	OB	1st quarter
Lighting & Render II	6	OB	1st quarter
Scripting for 3D visual effects	6	OB	2nd quarter
FX and Simulation II	6	OB	2nd quarter
Composition III	6	OB	2nd quarter
Matchmove and rotomation	3	OB	2nd quarter
Digital Society	3	OB	2nd quarter
Project III:	6	OB	2nd quarter

Course 4

Course name	ECTS	Type	Duration
Creating 3D Environments	6	OB	1st quarter
Visual effects supervision	6	OB	1st quarter
FX and Simulation III	6	OB	1st quarter
Final Degree Project	6	TFG	ANNUAL
Work Environment	6	OP	ANNUAL
Project IV:	6	OB	ANNUAL
Character FX	6	OB	2nd quarter
Virtual production	3	OB	2nd quarter
Technical composition	6	OP	2nd quarter
Procedural 3D creation	6	OP	2nd quarter
Training for employment	6	OP	2nd quarter
Internships	6	OP	2nd quarter
Business creation and development	3	OB	2nd quarter

Additional Information

• Location : U-tad Campus
• Hours : Monday – Friday
• ECTS : 240
• Language : Spanish or English
• Modality : In campus
• Centre Attached to : Camilo José Cela University
• Year of implementation :
• Spots for new students in the Degree : 30
• Branch of knowledge : Humanities

Minimum number of ECTS per type of registration and course:

Minimum	Maximum
Full-time 1st course	60	60
Full-time rest of courses	30	75
Part-time 1st course	25	30
Part-time rest of courses	18	45

Competencies

• Hours

Related Studies

• Master in Composition
• Master in Animation