Bachelor's Degree in Animation & VFX
La Salle Campus Barcelona – Universidad Ramon Llull
Key Information
Campus location
Barcelona, Spain
Languages
English, Spanish,
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
4 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 10,800 / per year
Application deadline
Request info
Earliest start date
02 Sep 2024
Introduction
Our Degree in Animation will provide you with a solid artistic and creative grounding in the field of animation and visual effects. You will learn about the latest technological advances in 3D animation, learn how to use them as well as acquiring a global vision of the sector and becoming an expert in VFX.
You will work on the fundamentals of art, scripting, design, and film-making, and you will learn the principles of anatomy, movement, and acting.
You will be trained in all the stages of production:
- Pre-production: Ideas, Creativity, Screenplay, Design, Narrative, and Storyboard.
- Production: 3D Modelling, Textures-Shading, Rigging, Animation, Illumination, Render, and FX.
- Post-Production: Composition, Assembly, and Colour Correction. 3D VFX and Motion Graphics.
- Industry: Distribution, Finance, Intellectual Property, Project Management, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership.
In addition, this degree will enable you to:
- Create your own ideas, scripts, and characters.
- Work in singular laboratories such as Medialab and Mediadome, Paintworks, Sculpture, and High-performance Computing Laboratories.
- Develop projects with students from other degree programs in multidisciplinary groups.
- Create your own digital portfolio with all the artwork done.
- Study on exchange programs and stages in leading universities in the multimedia sector.
Smart Learning
A new educational model for a new normal.
This new normal requires a new way of teaching and learning, adapted to a changing and uncertain situation that demands flexible, intelligent, and technological learning that adapts to all the students’ new educational needs.
La Salle Campus Barcelona - Ramon Llull University endorses the new Smart Learning model and takes another step in its innovative DNA, affecting all areas of the educational process: the service to the students, international exchanges, remote internships, the telework model applied to internships with companies, the job bank, and research projects.
What is the new Smart Learning model?
State-of-the-art technology has been implemented in the classrooms that will allow students, both national and international, who cannot get to the Campus to attend and participate in classes without being physically in the classroom. The sessions given with on-site students will be broadcast live over the Internet and those who attend virtually will be projected on screens so that teachers and on-site students can see and interact with them. All students, both on-site and those who cannot come to the campus, will form a single group while maintaining the same academic schedule and contact with their classmates and teachers.
With the new Smart Learning model, students will have training which will be:
- Personalized, because it adapts to the student and their needs or circumstances, regardless of the health scenario.
- Flexible, because it overcomes the barriers of the online or face-to-face methods with a platform that allows face-to-face, blended, and distance learning.
- Intelligent, because it is a new way of teaching and learning that combines physical and interactive experiences.
- Technological, in order to implement the Smart Learning methodology, classrooms have been transformed into Smart Classrooms, which consist of:
- Audio system with more than 8,000 virtual microphones per classroom
- Cameras equipped with artificial intelligence
- Smart Boards to share content to and from the Smart Classroom, enhancing collaborative work.
Curriculum
Methodology
The training methodology you will receive at La Salle is based on:
- Practical training centered on Learning by doing.
- Masterclasses where you will receive theoretical knowledge.
- Development of practical exercises and projects that complement the theoretical foundations.
- Elaboration of projects with the aim of synthesizing the knowledge of each subject.
- Completion of a Degree's Final Project where the students finish the project emulating a real production company.
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Program Outcome
Goals
On completion of our Degree in Animation and VFX you will be able to:
- Work in the animation, visual effects, audiovisual, and digital content sectors.
- Specialize in computer-generated 3D imagery, VFX, and 3D art, understand the entire life cycle of a digital animation product, from its conception to its distribution.
- Take on any career opportunities related to animation and visual entertainment.
- Develop your creativity so that you are able to combine the artistic and technical parts of animation production.
- Master state-of-the-art technology in visual animation created using the same tools as the best animation studios in the world.
Career Opportunities
Career Opportunities
The Degree in Animation and VFX at La Salle Campus Barcelona will prepare you to work in all the phases of creation, from start to finish: pre-production, production, and post-production:
Pre-production
- Narrative scriptwriter.
- Illustrated script/storyboard.
- Creative Director.
Production
- Modeler and 3D textures.
- Rigger/Character Director.
- Lighting Director.
- Layout/Previs Artist.
- Animator.
- Texture Artist.
- Groom Artist.
- Matte Painter.
- FX Artist.
Post-production
- Composition artist.
- Colorist and color correction.
- Producer and Project Management.