Program Overview
This program prepares students for careers in the high-demand VFX industry. Through hands-on experience with professional software, students develop skills in generating and integrating digital elements for film, TV, video games, and more. Graduates are qualified for roles such as digital compositor, VFX production coordinator, and character FX artist, and have worked at leading companies like MPC, Double Negative, and ILM.
Program Outline
Careers:
The VFX industry is in high demand for professionals and has enjoyed substantial growth due to high consumer demand and new platforms such as Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV, or HBO… VFX are needed in nearly all productions for cinema, TV, series, video games, advertising, and other types 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 video games 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)
- Weta Digital (Lord of the Rings), among others.
