Make your mark in the game industry with the power of art and technology combined. Students apply their passion for art to create and animate environments, characters, textures, props and collision objects utilizing 2D and 3D platforms. They also develop the complex technical skills that make games not only move but also interact with the player to achieve a heightened sense of reality not to mention a more enjoyable ? and educational ? experience.

Students in UAT?s computer animation degree program master all levels of game development to create 3D art assets for multiple video game platforms. They learn to incorporate the artistic principles used in 3D video games art asset creation such as color theory, lighting, shading, anatomy, life drawing, perspective, scene staging, modeling low polygon and high polygon, 3D mesh topology, texturing, rigging, hand key character and prop animations, as well as motion capture and facial animation.

With a respected degree in animation from UAT, students are prepared to enter the game industry as a character artist modeler, texture artist, character artist animator, environment artist modeler, environment artist animator, mechanical mesh modeler, mechanical mesh animator or rigger.