Art by Animator/Instructor Billy Burger
Digital Animation Curriculum
About the Curriculum
The curriculum fully immerses you in character animation with classes in drawing, modeling, rigging, lighting, texturing, storytelling, and improvisation. The focus of these classes will be to help you understand the field as a whole, while you acquire a language that is common to the industry. Our program offers a unique blend of education in traditional animation principles that are critical to telling great stories, and new technologies that are radically transforming the possibilities of digital animation.
Your success in the digital animation industry is our goal.
Digital Animation Courses
- Principles of Computer Animation (2 units) ($640)
- Drawing for Digital Animation (2 units) ($640)
- Digital Animation Level I: Mechanics of Movement (3 units) ($960)
- Modeling/Rigging I (2 units) ($640)
- Animation Story Workshop (1 unit) ($425)
- Digital Animation Level II: Body Mechanics (3 units) ($960)
- Modeling/Rigging II (2 units) ($640)
- Lighting/Texturing I (2 units) ($640)
- Digital Animation Level III: Character Animation (3 units) ($960)
- Lighting/Texturing II (2 units) ($640)
- Studio Class (3 units) ($960)
- Breaking into the Animation Industry Workshop (1 unit) ($425)
- Bringing a Digital Character to Life (1 unit) ($425)
Certificate Requirement
The certificate program requires completion of 27 semester units.
Admission Requirements
To be admitted to Digital Animation Certificate Program, students should have at least 56 units of academic credit with a minimum GPA of 2.0 or sufficient experience to demonstrate that they can perform upper division work. However, students who do not have 56 units are encouraged to apply and may be admitted to the program on a conditional basis. (See Academic Certificate requirements.)
Financial Aid
Limited financial aid is available for the Digital Animation program. For further information, see the Financial Aid section. Students should start the financial aid application process as soon as possible. Note: you must be accepted to the program before financial aid will be awarded. For Finanacial Aid questions, please contact 415.338.2765, mohrmill@sfsu.edu.
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