Certificate of Achievement in Media Arts: Virtual Production, Motion Capture, and Advanced Visual Effects

The successful completion of this certificate will give students a thorough background in the aesthetics of film and media, and experience in advanced visual effects, motion capture production and post production, and 3D modeling for gaming and use on virtual production sets for feature motion picture, commericals, music videos episodic content and various other projects.

Since 2018-2019 our completers for the Media Arts: Visual effects programs have gone up over 800%.  This is not something that has gone unnoticed nor is it something we didn't foresee when we wrote the Visual Effects program.  There is a fast-growing need for visual effects artists in the entertainment industry and we plan to prepare out students to meet that industry need by offering this new, more advanced visual effects degree and certificate with not just advanced skils but added tools to prepare them.  The additions come in the way of motion capture, virtual production, and 3D modeling.  We project very similar numbers to what we saw over the course of the first three years of our Visual Effects program.

• Understanding of the aesthetics of film and media.
• Experience in creating advanced visual effects for various types of projects.
• Experience in motion capture production and post production.
• Experience in virtual production and 3D modeling to be used for gaming and on a virtual production set.
• Ability to build a reel (digital resume) with their own footage in order to better position themselves for transfer and/or gainful employment in the entertianment industry.

The requirements for this program begin with what we refer to as our "core studies" in Cinema and Media Arts.  Understanding the aesthetics and history of motion pictures, navigating the business, story structure/screenwriting, and beginning film production.  Students then go through the basic visual effects courses to eventually have the opportunity to earn this degree with two more, new courses (Advanced VFX, 3D Modeling for Virtual Production, and MoCap & Virtual Set Production).

Course	Title	Units	Year/Semester (Y1 or S1)

Cinema 105 Cinema 107	History of Motion Pictures Understanding Motion Pictures	3 3	S2 S1
Media Arts 100 Media Arts 116	The Entertainment Industry: Breaking In Introduction to Screenwriting	3 3	S2 S3
Cinema 101 Media Arts 101	Beginning Film Production Introduction to Digital Film Production	3 3	S1 S1
Media Arts 104 Media Arts 105	Photoshop for Motion Pictures and Television Visual Effects and Color Grading	3 3	S1 S3
Media Arts 107 Media Arts 108	Advanced Visual Effects and 3D Modeling for Virtual Production Motion Capture and Virtual Set Production	3 3	S4 S4

This program is one of several different avenues for students to take after completing the core classes.

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